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For tenor from Malta, a star-making role? (AP)

In this Nov. 4, 2009 photo, tenor Joseph Calleja poses for a photograph at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. (AP Photo/Stephen Chernin)AP - There's something about the honeyed sweetness of Joseph Calleja's voice that seems to evoke memories of a golden age, as if this young tenor carried within his vocal cords a secret passed down from bygone generations.



Fri, 27 Nov 2009 06:24:48 GMT


Students get schooled on hip-hop at Minn. college (AP)

In this Sept. 24, 2009 photo, DJ Freddy Fresh, right, spins records for students, from left, Toyosi Duroshola, Tyrome Jones and Adrian Thomas during a hip hop class at McNally Smith College of Music in St. Paul, Minn. Fresh is one of the instructors at the new hip hop program at McNally Smith College of Music which includes classes such as Deejay Techniques and The Language of Rap and Spoken Word III. (AP Photo/Dawn Villella)AP - DJ Freddy Fresh slaps a vinyl record on the turntable, cues it up and tells a student, "Remember, the top of the note was there, right? Grab it."



Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:06:24 GMT


Al Alberts, founding member of The Four Aces, dies (AP)

AP - Al Alberts, a founding member of the singing group, The Four Aces, and a longtime TV talent show host in Philadelphia, has died. He was 87.
Fri, 27 Nov 2009 19:02:16 GMT


Pinetop Perkins' 80-year career still going (AP)

In this Oct. 11, 2009 photograph, Grammy winning blues pianist Joe Willie 'Pinetop' Perkins motions a 'thumbs up' gesture during the annual festival at Hopson Plantation in Clarksdale, Miss., honoring him. Although he is 96 years old, Perkins, who formerly drove a tractor at the plantation in the 1940's, keeps an active performance schedule and takes time to record with a number of contemporary blues musicians, many several decades younger than himself. Proceeds of the festival are used to help fund programs of the Blues Foundation. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)AP - Noisy crowds in smoky bars don't bother 96-year-old bluesman Pinetop Perkins.



Fri, 27 Nov 2009 09:03:22 GMT


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