Recent Listening: Perez, Brookmeyer, Lundgren, Gardner Rifftides World Headquarters has welcome summer visitors and resounds with telecasts of Olympics events. Nonetheless, the staff makes time for listening. We don't award medals, but here are brief impressions of four recent CDs that placed high with the judges. Danilo Perez, Across The Crystal Sea (EmArcy). Inevitably, this collaboration of the pianist with Claus Ogerman recalls Bill Evans With Symphony Orchestra (1965), which Ogerman also arranged. More than half of the themes come from class.Pacific Symphony Orchestra.

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USDAN Center Gala Concert Honors Joseph and Clara Sugar, Distinguished Music Educators, on Wednesday August 6 he New York Philharmonic and the New York City Ballet, will present its annual Gala Concert on Wednesday August 6 at 7 PM at the Center's 200-acre woodland campus.  Usdan Center, America's premier summer arts day camp, will present Lifetime Achievement Awards to Joseph and Clara Sugar, whose long and distinguished careers. Irvine.

The Best Cities Less Traveled - Part II Ticket, Once we started traveling the world in search of little known destinations, we just couldn't stop! There is absolutely no reason to pay high prices in a series of major tourist destinations when there are hundreds of hidden gems throughout the world. If you enjoyed the first group of lesser known cities on our agenda, you're sure to love what we found when we continued our journey. Be sure to add a few of these incredible cities to your list of places to explore! Istanbul, Turkey Istanbul.

Dr. L. Subramaniam & Grappelli - Conversations ?Music is a vast ocean and no one can claim to know it all. The more you know, the more you realise how little you know. It is an eternal quest. - Dr.L.Subramaniam ?I find nothing more inspiring than the music making of my very great colleague Subramaniam. Each time I listen to him, I am carried away in wonderment? said Lord Yehudi Menuhin.In the West, I have heard only one other music which is as meditative, serene, powerful and yet equally joyful ? that of Johann Sebastian Bach. Pacific Symphony Orchestra at Irvine.

What We Loved This Week: Paul Theroux, the Bombay Club and Summer in Chicago Pacific Symphony Orchestra tickets, Julia Ross I loved how Chicagoans love their summers. I spent the early part of the week visiting my sister in the Windy City and participated in a few seasonal rituals: an afternoon at North Avenue beach, a Chicago Symphony Orchestra concert at Ravinia, a Cubs-Astros game at Wrigley Field. Though that last outing was interrupted in the sixth inning when a tornado swept through town?they actually sounded the tornado siren at Wrigley'it didn't stop the warm weather revelry; most of the crowd.

2008 Heckscher-Usdan Student Art Institue Exhibit Reception Irvine ticket broker,  (Long Island, N.Y.) A reception for the exhibit of the newest work of the 2008 Heckscher-Usdan Student Art Exhibit students will be Thursday August 7 at 1:30 PM in the on-site Art Gallery of the Art Department at  Usdan Center for the Creative and Performing Arts, 185 Colonial Springs Road, Wheatley Heights, New York.  The exhibit runs August 4 to 8, and this year's work, in painting, drawing and sculpture, will feature many pieces based on found objects.   The unique Heckscher-Usdan Student.

Week 46 Ravinia 04 ticket brokers, A BEETHOVEN Overture to Fidelio, Op. 72c BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat Major, Op. 73 (Emperor) INTERMISSION BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 3 in E-flat Major, Op. 55 (Eroica) Sir Andrew Davis conductor Leon Fleischer piano B WILLIAMS The Olympic Spirit WILLIAMS Theme from Jaws WILLIAMS Bicycle Chase from E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial WILLIAMS Main Theme from Close Encounters of the Third Kind WILLIAMS Theme from Jurassic Park WILLIAMS Harry's Wondrous World from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's .

Gloria ?Dode? Stroud: A Living Biography It was my turn to present a biography (our theme this year) to our monthly businessman's luncheon. I wanted to make it more alive than a book report of a dead person, so I chose to focus on a delightful living person whose life offers many examples of virtues that can enrich our lives. Here's an outline of my presentation: Why read or study biographies of others? Learn the secrets of greatness? See what obstacles others have overcome? Find models and principles to shape our lives.tickets.

Cables, dispatches and memoranda tickets, A brief world news roundup for 30 July 2008. United States .&.the Americas Anchorage Daily News - U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens was indicted this morning by a federal grand jury in Washington, D.C. on seven counts of filing false financial disclosures. McClatchy - The commander of the 3rd Wing at Elmendorf Air Force Base died of what is believed to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound Sunday night, Air Force Col. Richard Walberg said Monday. America.gov - Colombia's Gains are America's Too; Op-Ed.