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Maxïmo Park (sometimes spelled Maximo Park) are an English post-punk revival band, signed to Warp Records, who formed in 2000. Maxïmo Park formed in Tyne and Wear in 2000 (with frontman Paul Smith hailing from Billingham on Teesside), their name adapted from Maximo Gomez Park, a Havana meeting plac... Read More...
Charity concert in honour Italian tenor Pavarotti held in Petra - Monsters and Critics Amman - A charity concert for Luciano Pavarotti kicked off at the site of the ancient Jordanian city of Petra on Sunday night as a tribute to his music and his humanitarian work, Jordanian state-run media reported. The concert for the Italian tenor ...
Live: Branford Marsalis and the Philarmonia Brasileira - Los Angeles Times Make a poet a diplomat and good may come of it. France sent the great humanist writer Paul Claudel to Brazil during World War I, and food found its way from South America to France during a period of privation. So too did Brazilian music, once the ...
Guarneri: Balancing act comes to the end 'This seemed like a natural ... - San Diego Union-Tribune For an image of refinement and civilization, consider the string quartet. Four people carry on a musical conversation via two violins, a viola and a cello. The cello introduces a theme, and the others embroider upon it. Violins blend in ethereal ...