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The New York Observer (Free subscription) | yesterday
DENVER—Wednesday afternoon at the Denver Art Museum, Jennifer Lopez , Capitol File and Viacom honored Marian Wright Edelman for her work with the Children's Defense Fund. Before the awards presentation began, the Daily Transom spied the singer Rufus Wainwright , wearing a plaid blazer, striped T-shirt and sandals. "I'm gay and out and proud, but in saying that I feel that the gay community...
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Out in Hollywood (Free subscription) | yesterday
I ask you, is there any sound more beautiful than Rufus Wainwright singing "Hallelujah"? Darn few that's for sure. He ended his set at last night's HRC concert with the song that I was embarassed to admit I became...
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Progressive Bloggers (Free subscription) | 24/08/2008
I've been a loyal fan of Rufus Wainwright for 10 years. I've been a Torontonian for 13 years. Wainwright is one of my favourite performers today, I love all of his music. I also love living in Toronto. It's too bad that Wainwright felt the need to spout off about his apparent contempt for the Big Smoke for Xtra recently.Said Wainwright: "I hate visiting Toronto. I...
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Merry Swankster (Free subscription) | 21/08/2008
"Rock to Win" is a concert hosted by the Human Rights Campaign featuring Willie Nelson, Melissa Etheridge, Cyndi Lauper, and Rufus Wainwright. Tickets are $98 per person for the Tuesday Aug 26 show and are still available via Ticketmaster . The Human Rights Campaign is America’s largest civil rights organization working to achieve gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender equality. By inspiring...
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ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Rufus Wainwright wants the opera, "Prima Donna," to be in French; its would-be commissioners -- the Met and Lincoln Center Theater -- insisted on English. Wainwright said another stumbling block was the date of a potential production at the opera house. The earliest the Met could offer, he said, was in 2014. "They work on that sort of scale; I wanted to get it out as soon as possible,"...
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New York Times (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
The singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright has dropped plans to compose a work for the Metropolitan Opera in a dispute over the language of the libretto.
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News & Information (Free subscription) | 22/08/2008
Nico Muhly may not get the kind of attention that is lavished upon some of his collaborators, such as Bjrk or Rufus Wainwright, but the New York-based composer may be the most buzzed-about musician in……Read more
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We Are Pop Slags (Free subscription) | 22/08/2008
We almost forgot about Dido, but she’s still around. She’s about to release her new album, Safe Trip Home, on November 4th. The album was recorded in LA and London and is co-produced by Jon Brion (Fiona Apple, The Eels, Rufus Wainwright), Rollo Armstrong and Dido. Cheerily titled first single ‘Don’t Believe in Love’ will be released mid-September. If you really can’t wait for that, she’s...
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Vulture (Free subscription) | 22/08/2008
Courtesy of Pitchperfect PR Impish Über -talent Nico Muhly, known to some as Philip Glass’s protégée, to others as the guy who helps make Björk, Rufus Wainwright, and Antony sound better, and to most as the one of the next great hopes for the future of classical music, is about the head to Paris for the premiere of his second collaboration with choreographer Benjamin Millepied. Until...
