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The music festival that lives alongside a wildlife park The sixth note from an ongoing musical piece is to be played in a German town - a concert that is scheduled to last 639 years. [BBC News Europe] 05/07/2008 Punk-loving robots pogo in the name of science The music industry says thousands of UK broadband users who share tracks illegally will be warned about it in letters. They are said to produce unparalleled sound quality. Until now, however, no one has been able to explain why 300-year-old Stradivarius violins have never been matched in terms of musical expressiveness and projection. A study (...) [nzherald.co.nz - world] 02/07/2008 A man is jailed for life for the murder of Londonderry blues musician Jim Gilchrist in September 2005. US digital music service Rhapsody is the latest company to embrace MP3 downloads without copy restrictions. Nelson Mandela joined music stars on stage at a concert in central London celebrating his 90th birthday. [BBC News Europe] 28/06/2008 A vicar speaks out against the people who drove a 13-year-old boy to hang himself because of his taste in clothes and music. The life of the Virgin Mary is celebrated in a Vatican musical [BBC News Europe] 18/06/2008 Cyd Charisse, a former co-star of Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, dies in Los Angeles aged 86, her publicist says. [BBC News Americas] 18/06/2008 A scratchy recording of Baa Baa Black Sheep is thought to be the oldest known recording of computer generated music. Bebe means butterfly in Fijian, thus the entrance to Bebe Spa is a majestic wooden double door engraved with a butterfly. Through the door is a reception not unlike that of other spas, with tranquil music and beauty products (...) [nzherald.co.nz - travel] 16/06/2008 A not-so-bright wiseguy faces the music in the school-bus scandal (By Tom Robbins) [Village voice - News] 10/06/2008 An audio recording of the 1958 secret trial of Hungary's former prime minister Imre Nagy is being played in public for the first time. [BBC News Europe] 09/06/2008 |
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