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Be it classical music, jazz, theater or dance, arts news gets made fresh every single day...especially for Friday, December 27, 2013.

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"), Brick Dozer of Channel 4 News has trawled the web for the best headlines--those stories, those people making the biggest aesthetic waves.

Here, then, is today's news:

Billy Joel Gives $250,000 Piano to Stony Brook University [Dan's Papers]

Mentally ill and their backers fill Vt. orchestra [Yahoo]

St. Paul jazz club closes with 2013 - but can it rise again? [Pioneer Press]

Young Souls Portray the Wit of ‘Hamlet,’ With Brevity [New York Times]

Arthur Miller’s The Crucible to be staged as ballet [The Stage]

Stay Classicalite, says Brick.

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