Concert combines acrobats, symphony

ON STAGE -- What: Cirque de la Symphonie

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Early music concert focuses on chaconnes

What: Early Music Society of the Islands: The Art and Ecstasy of the Chaconne

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Injury-plagued conductor to resign

Injury-plagued conductor James Levine will step down as music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra in September after seven seasons, the symphony said Wednesday.

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Bach, Schubert concert set

The Victoria Symphony brings together the talents of two up-and-coming musicians Sunday as they perform a concert dubbed Brandenburg 4 & Schubert 5.

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Cuarteto Latinoamericano makes return visit to UVic

IN CONCERT -- What: Cuarteto Latinoamericano

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Victoria composer scores opera project

Supported by a quartermillion-dollar grant, Victoria composer Tobin Stokes is poised to pen a new opera about a shellshocked marine.

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Mariah Carey’s new song will raise money for human rights issues

Mariah Carey plans to donate the proceeds from her new song ‘Save the Day’ to human rights causes and may even set up her own charitable foundation.

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• Mariah Carey joins other singers distancing themselves from Gadhafi

Lady Gaga threatens lawsuit over 'Baby Gaga' breast milk ice cream

Lawyers for Lady Gaga have threatened legal proceedings against the makers of breast milk ice cream named "Baby Gaga," according to papers seen by AFP on Saturday.

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• London shot to serve breast milk ice cream
• Lady Gaga and Zombie Boy make Paris Fashion Week scene
• Lady Gaga releases video for Born This Way
• Lady Gaga's brand of perfume is likely to make a stink

Canadian songwriters propose $10 fee for music-sharing

Canadian songwriters are again targeting Internet file-sharing, this time with a proposal for consumer licences that could add as much as $10 to monthly Internet bills.

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Rock icon Phil Collins calls it quits

Phil Collins has indicated that he intends to end his rock career after learning that health problems will prevent him playing the drums again.

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How Beth Ditto became a very big deal

Not even trash-loving cult filmmaker John Waters could have imagined a countercultural icon as perfect as this: an overweight girl from impoverished rural Arkansas, the loudest singer in the church choir, who shoots and eats squirrels for supper, grows up to become the most famous - the only famous - fat, lesbian, feminist pop star in the world.

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American Idol judge Jennifer Lopez sizzles on the singles chart

JLo jumps onto the Billboard Hot 100 with her highest debut in more than eight years with On the Floor.

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• Photos: American Idol parties on with Jennifer Lopez, Steven Tyler and the gang