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• Music Review: Orchestra of the League of Composers Takes On a Challenge

  The Orchestra of the League of Composers/I.S.C.M. performed two world premieres as part of its Monday program at the Miller Theater.        

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• What’s on Thursday

  Television highlights.        

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• Sony’s Kazuo Hirai Seeks Time to Consider Spinoff Proposal

  Sony Corp.’s chief executive says time is needed to study a proposal from a U.S. major hedge fund to spin off a part of the company’s entertainment unit. Kazuo Hirai was speaking to investors...

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• Book review: John Kruth’s Roy Orbison biography, ‘Rhapsody in Black’

  Nearly 25 years have passed since Roy Orbison last prowled the Earth in one of his signature jet-black ensembles, with those trademark sunglasses perched on the bridge of his nose. The rock pioneer...

• James Gandolfini, Actor, Dies

  The Emmy Award-winning actor who shot to fame on the HBO drama “The Sopranos” as Tony Soprano, died on Wednesday.        

• James Gandolfini: A Rich Bigscreen Career in the Shadow of Tony Soprano

  James Gandolfini will forever be defined by Tony Soprano, a fact that scarcely diminished his work on the bigscreen and stage.

• Stephen Porter, Theater Director, Dies at 87

  Mr. Porter was a theater director who dusted off classic plays by the likes of Molière and Shaw and honed them as “the realism of another time.”       &...

• Slim Whitman, Yodeling Country Singer With a Regular-Guy Image, Dies at 90

  Mr. Whitman recorded more than 500 songs, made more than 100 albums and sold more than 70 million records.        

• Dance Review: ‘Swan Lake’ Returns to American Ballet Theater

  Kevin McKenzie’s staging of “Swan Lake” returns to the Metropolitan Opera House with American Ballet Theater’s Polina Semionova and David Hallberg dancing the leads. &...

• RIP, KIM THOMPSON: Out of D.C.’s comics scene, Fantagraphics co-publisher grew into widely influential figure

  KIM THOMPSON was born in Denmark, but everything changed when he arrived in America for the first time, at age 21. On the fertile soil of Virginia, a massively influential comics career took root...

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