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Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End Composer Talks Challenges of Music for Season 2 (Exclusive)
Comicbook
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July 15, 2025
While ten years is a huge amount of time for others, its but a drop in the bucket in Frieren’s extremely long lifespan of over a thousand. Upon disbanding after a decade-long quest to defeat the Demon King and returning to her everlasting hobby of...
Feature: Global experts call for cultural understanding, exchange in China's Harbin
Xinhua News Agency
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HARBIN, July 16 (Xinhua) -- While speaking of his bond with Chinese culture, 69-year-old British translator David Ferguson hummed a passage from the Peking Opera classic Dingjun Mountain, recalling how Chinese art has profoundly transformed his...
Country Roads Music Festival Canceled Days Before It Was Set To Take Place In Michigan
Whiskey Riff
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July 15, 2025
If you happened to have tickets to the Country Roads Music Festival at The Groves of Michigan Campground, your weekend just opened up. Country music fans that had plans to attend the Country Roads Music Festival were only days away from the...
Decolonising music education across diverse institutions
Music in Africa
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July 15, 2025
Breaking out of the canon My musical upbringing followed a familiar path: I began playing classical piano at the age of six, took ABRSM exams, studied Italian terms, and explored an extensive repertoire of European music. That framework could just...
‘Jurassic World: Rebirth’ composer breaks down Jonathan Bailey’s clarinet solo: ‘That was a strange moment’
New York Post
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July 15, 2025
Who knew a clarinet could compete with a T. rex? Alexandre Desplat, the Academy Award-winning French composer who created the score for “Jurassic World: Rebirth,” got help on the new dinosaur blockbuster from none other than star Jonathan Bailey...
¡Nos Vamos al Mundial! Buchanan's Whisky and Fútbol Announcer Andrés Cantor Kick Off a Global Celebration to FIFA World Cup 2026™ with Custom Chant and Buchamión Truck - A Mobile Activation Bringing Ritmo Latino to the Streets
The Alexander City Outlook - Alabama
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July 14, 2025
Beginning in New York City with the unmistakable voice of 'Mr. Goal' blasting from its speakers, and making its way to Mexico City, Buchanan's Whisky is launching a music-fueled tribute to Latino fútbol culture, with surprise appearances, free...
Malaysian jazz icon Sheila Majid announces November concert at Axiata Arena, celebrating four decades in music
Malay Mail
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July 15, 2025
KUALA LUMPUR, July 15 — Malaysian queen of jazz Datuk Sheila Majid is set to return to the stage with a highly anticipated concert on November 8, 2025, 8.30pm at Axiata Arena, Bukit Jalil. Titled Sheila Majid 40 Years in Music, the show is not a...
Galway International Arts Festival 2025: Locals and visitors react as festival opens in Eyre Square
Irish Independent
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Rain couldn't dampen spirits as Galway's beloved arts festival kicked off this week. We spoke to festival-goers from a Tucson native experiencing his first Irish arts festival to local vendors calling it a ‘fantastic honour’ - watch their...
'Making cigarettes obsolete': Smoke-free brand launches global campaign
Philstar
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July 14, 2025
MANILA, Philippines — A tobacco company launched its new global campaign in line with its mission to replace cigarettes with science-backed smoke-free alternatives. Philip Morris Fortune Tobacco Company (PMFTC) Inc. recently launched “Forever...
Lü Jia: Young artists, innovation key to Chinese music's go-global
Global Times
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In August 2024, Lü Jia led a Chinese symphonic orchestra in a performance in New York. Photo: VCG Editor's Note: In recent years, Chinese culture has been blooming in all its diversity, continuously achieving remarkable success overseas. In this...
Music industry faces censorship after Bob Vylan controversy
Deutsche Welle
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July 14, 2025
It all started when the BBC cancelled its broadcast of the Irish pro-Palestinian band Kneecap during the Glastonbury music festival after the lead singer was charged with a terrorism offense for allegedly holding a banned Hezbollah flag — which he...
29th Sastamala Gregoriana music festival begins
Daily Finland
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Sastamala Gregoriana, Finland’s largest early music festival, begins on Wednesday for the 29th time, said a press release. This year marks the conclusion of the festival’s six-year thematic series Cities on Water, with the 2025 theme London –...
Afrobeats Intelligence: Lanre Masha on Authenticity and the Evolution of Nigerian Music
OkayAfrica
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July 14, 2025
On the latest episode of Afrobeats Intelligence, Joey Akan sits down with Lanre Masha, a seasoned Nigerian music executive now steering West African operations for The Orchard, Sony Music's global distribution and artist services arm. It's a...
'911 Nashville' filming in Music City showcases TN growing film industry
The Tennessean
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“911: Nashville” is set to premiere on ABC this fall, highlighting Tennessee's growing film industry. Tennessee's film industry economic output increased 43% to $728 million in the past five years. The state offers incentives like tax credits and...
Global Beat: BCUC
Relix Media
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July 14, 2025
For many bands around the world, international success comes when they decide to start writing songs in English. But for South African funk collective BCUC, success came when they stopped. Short for Bantu Continua Uhuru Consciousness, BCUC was...
International Day celebrates diversity – and unity - at First Asssembly of God
Caymanian Times
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July 14, 2025
By Christopher Tobutt The parking lot of the First Assembly Church of Crew Road blossomed into a vibrant hub of celebration, faith, and fellowship. A swirl of aromas danced through the air and bursts of laughter echoed between stalls as dozens of...
President visits construction site of the future Casa da Música e do Teatro and the new Convention Center
Ver Angola
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According to a brief note from the Presidency of the Republic, which VerAngola had access to, the visit to the Casa da Música e do Teatro (Music and Theater House) took place this Tuesday morning. The project for the future Palácio da Música,...
Don Welsh: Why international travel matters now more than ever
Chicago Tribune - Illinois
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July 15, 2025
Last month, Chicago played host to the most important annual gathering for international travel in the United States: IPW. This meeting brings together more than 5,000 delegates, including travel buyers, media and suppliers from more than 60...
Sly Stone in 1967 — Ready To Take Over the World
Rolling Stone
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July 15, 2025
New live album The First Family: Live at Winchester Cathedral 1967 captures Sly and the Family Stone just before they released their debut album Once upon a time, being in a rock band meant, ipso facto, being in a cover band. There are still...
Where In The World Does Lena Dunham Live?
Grazia
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If you've found yourself binging Lena Dunham's Too Much on Netflix, you're certainly not alone. The show - a heartbreakingly hilarious recounting of an emotionally-scorched American woman rebuilding her life in London - has left fans asking one...