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Classicalite's Five Best: Rock Stars and Their Musical Mentors

The trend of recent decades of rock stars to turn to classical music isn't so very surprising. No, especially not when you consider some very direct influences between the mainstream classical world and the rockers. Here, then, are Classicalite's Five Best rock stars and their classical mentors.

By James Inverne

HIGHLIGHTS: Chicago Symphony's Ravinia Festival 2014 Announces Classical Programming for “Summer of Love/Season of Stars”

The Ravinia Festival recently announced its 2014 season, “Summer of Love/Season of Stars,” featuring music that expresses the theme of love in all its various manifestations.
By Louise Burton
Things Called Jazz That Are Not Jazz: Tumblr Blog Highlights the Worst Term Branding Since the NBA's Utah Jazz

The candid "Things Called Jazz That Are Not Jazz" Tumblr irreverently posts some of the more brash branding techniques geared towards marketing the idiom to an, err, wider demographic? Who knows, really.
By Ian Holubiak

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Classicalite's Five Best: Rock Stars and Their Musical Mentors

HIGHLIGHTS: Chicago Symphony's Ravinia Festival 2014 Announces Classical Programming for “Summer of Love/Season of Stars”

Things Called Jazz That Are Not Jazz: Tumblr Blog Highlights the Worst Term Branding Since the NBA's Utah Jazz

Don't Let It Go: Disney's 'Frozen' Soundtrack Nabs No. 1 Spot on Billboard 200 for Fifth Week, Looking to Sink OST 'Titanic'

Lay Lady Lays Off: Why 'The Onion' Story About Bob Dylan Firing His "Lyric Assembly Line" Is Becoming All Too Real

EXCLUSIVE: Watch the Video for Roxanna's "Close Your Eyes," Her Second Single from 'Exotica' (Roxart, Inc.)

Australian Chamber Orchestra's ACO Underground Plays Bach and Stravinsky, Nirvana and Nine Inch Nails at (Le) Poisson Rouge

WATCH: Documentary Trailer for 'Bayou Maharajah: The Tragic Genius of James Booker,' Premieres at SxSW Next Month

Brilliant Cellist Okkyung Lee Performs Samuel Beckett, Yi Sang Inspired Compositions at New York's The Kitchen in March

Leon Botstein's American Symphony Orchestra 2014-15 Season Marks a Return to the Esoteric and Bracingly Contemporary

WATCH: 2Cellos Take Another Rock Classic to Classical Composition, Duo Breathes New Life Into AC/DC's "Thunderstruck"

LINKS: Experimental Music for Kids, Chicago's New Music Youthquake, SC Philharmonic to Carnegie, Harold Budd, William Onyeabor Doc

Pianist Evgeny Kissin "Unforgettable" in Concert of Jewish Music and Poetry at Kennedy Center, Writes Washington Post's Anne Midgette

Forensic Musicology: Marin Alsop, Didi Balle Collaborate for Baltimore Symphony Orchestra's "CSI: Mozart" at Strathmore and Meyerhoff

Paco De Lucía, Revered Flamenco and Jazz Guitarist from Andalucia, Dead at 66

Hollywood Scars on Broadway: Rebecca Hall, Bryan Cranston, James Franco, Leighton Meester, Denzel Washington, Michelle Williams

Madoff Blues: Delta Groove Music Owner Randy Chortkoff Indicted on Fraud for Movie "Starring" Joaquin Phoenix, Ray Liotta

Ready to Die? Notorious B.I.G.'s "Suicidal Thoughts" Mashed Up with Beethoven's 'Piano Sonata No. 27 in E minor' by Dan Kreiger