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Quickies: Taylor Swift's $100K Birthday Gift, Caroline Shaw & Nico Muhly, James Wood on Britten Books, Monk in Paris '69, Wagner Sculpture

Be it classical music, jazz, theater or dance, arts news gets made fresh every single day...especially for Monday, December 16, 2013 (i.e. less than 10 days 'til Christmas).

So, in an effort to keep all you Classicalites abreast of each and every art in our tagline (e.g. "Classical Music, Jazz, Theater, Dance & More"), Classicalite News 4 anchor Brick Dozer has trolled trawled the web for the best headlines--those stories, those people making the biggest aesthetic waves.

Here, then, is today's news:

Taylor Swift donates $100,000 to Nashville Symphony on her 24th birthday [Tennessean, Dave Paulson]

Golden Moments in Their 30s [New York Times, Zachary Woolfe]

Heat in a Mild Climate [London Review of Books, James Wood]

Just Released, a 1969 Thelonious Monk Recording Still Feels Fresh [Mother Jones, Jon Young]

The Wagner Series - Sculptures Inspired by Wagner's Operas [Vanessa Pooley]

Stay Classicalite, says Brick.

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