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Carl Palmer brings ELP Legacy to the Kate

 May 10, 2013; Updated: 4:39 pm

You'd think playing for two historic, multiple-platinum bands - Emerson, Lake & Palmer and Asia - would pretty much fill your musical calendar. Plus, if you're the drummer for those progressive rock acts - and therefore required by...

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The Marcus Roberts Trio with Béla Fleck grace the Garde

 May 9, 2013; Updated: 1:31 pm

Artists such as Marcus Roberts and Béla Fleck routinely cast musical spells the rest of us could never have conceived - and instead gratefully devour.

And that's BEFORE they joined forces.

Fleck, of course, blew onto the world-music...

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Disc tip: "Owel"

 May 9, 2013; Updated: 1:42 pm

Owel
One hopes the name of this band isn't a calculatedly "clever" stunt wherein they left off a consonant when trying to spell "vowel" because that would be, like, hilarious. After...

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You're invited to the Ska Prom

 May 9, 2013; Updated: 1:31 pm

The whole idea of a prom is pretty overwhelming, actually. It's a lot of work, is what it is. Plus, from a male perspective, what if the person you've dreamed of as a date turns you down? Then you've rented a powder blue tux for...

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Old Lyme Inn opens the SideDoor

 May 9, 2013; Updated: 1:31 pm

If he'd never done anything else, the fact that George Wein founded the Newport Jazz Festival and the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival assuredly paves his way to heaven.

Don't overlook, though, that Wein is himself a sterling...

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Connecticut Lyric Opera stages "Don Giovanni"

 May 9, 2013; Updated: 1:31 pm

No musical collaboration has had the staying power of Lorenzo da Ponte and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The two men collaborated on three operas 250 years ago, and their popularity, if anything, keeps growing.

You can enjoy one Friday...

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Trying on the glass slipper

 May 9, 2013; Updated: 1:31 pm

Fairy-tale opera: Rossini's version of Cinderella - the opera "La Cenerentola" - will be on full Prince Charming and glass-slippered display when the Salt Marsh Opera performs it Sunday at the Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center.

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Rush in concert at Mohegan Sun

 May 9, 2013; Updated: 1:31 pm

So far, this has been an astounding century. In 2000, a panel of experts fed data into an advanced computer and determined that the three most unlikely events to happen in the next hundred years would be:

• The Boston Red Sox...

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Chelsea Players hosts surf music by The Clams

 May 9, 2013; Updated: 1:31 pm

Maybe it's the summer spirit that inspired them? Or maybe it was just the love of good music?

Whatever the case, Chelsea Players is bringing in surf band The Clams Saturday for a Norwich music series that has previously tended to lean...

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Pianist Eva Virsik performs at the La Grua Center

 May 9, 2013; Updated: 1:31 pm

Pianist Eva Virsik will perform a recital Saturday at the La Grua Center that showcases works by Beethoven, Brahms, Schumann, Wagner, and Suchon.

She'll lead things off with Eugen Suchon's "Metamorphoses." She is performing that piece as a...

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Young Artist Competition winner plays with Coast Guard Band

 May 9, 2013; Updated: 1:31 pm

Let's face it: artist competitions for classical instrumentalists tend to boast violinists. Lots and lots of violinists.

Not, however, when it comes to the victor of the Coast Guard Band's 2013 Young Artist Competition.

Behold...

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Jeff Slate brings Birds of Paradox band home for local shows

 May 7, 2013; Updated: 10:21 am

No one has a Rolodex anymore.
Hopefully, though, New London native Jeff Slate didn't throw his away. As a souvenir, it's the rock 'n' roll equivalent of those sign-in registries at famous old hotels,...

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Old Lyme Inn jazzed about new venue

 May 6, 2013; Updated: 6:30 pm

The Old Lyme Inn announces the grand opening of its jazz club, The SideDoor. The club's inaugural concert will be held Friday, May 10, at 8 p.m. with George Wein and the Newport All-Stars, featuring Anat Cohen, Lew Tabackin with Tal Ronen and...

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Review: Musical Masterworks' season finale transporting

 May 4, 2013; Updated: 11:32 pm

In its final program of the season, to be repeated at 3 this afternoon, Musical Masterworks jumped back a generation or two to the days when a string quartet would roll into town and perform a program, naturally, of string quartets … three of...

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Jukebox heroes: Foreigner at MGM Grand at Foxwoods

 May 2, 2013; Updated: 1:18 pm

You wanna know what love is?

Why, to sing with Foreigner, of course. And, in fact, that's what's going to happen Sunday in the MGM Grand Theater at Foxwoods when the multi-platinum rock act performs.

Yes, one lucky regional high...

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Three string quartets at Musical Masterworks

 May 2, 2013; Updated: 1:18 pm

As he looked at the lineup of concerts for this season, Musical Masterworks Artistic Director Edward Arron paused when he looked at this weekend's program.

"This is where I am being a little bit selfish," he said. "I grew up hearing the...

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MGM Grand at Foxwoods welcomes Il Divo

 May 2, 2013; Updated: 1:18 pm

Note perfect: Il Divo, those popular purveyors of operatic pop, perform Friday at MGM Grand at Foxwoods.

Simon says: Before Simon Cowell worked his boy-band magic by being the guiding force behind One Direction, he did the...

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