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Three days of nonstop piano
performances
Shriver Hall Concerts celebrates its 40-year legacy this
weekend
When Murray Perahia first performed in the
Shriver Hall Concert Series, the Grammy-winning
pianist had not quite hit the big time. Perahia's 1971
concert at Shriver, in fact, found the young prodigy
wearing an old pair of brown shoes because he simply
couldn't afford new black ones.
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Peabody Dance honors its own ballet
visionary
Barbara Weisberger, the distinguished artistic adviser
for Peabody Dance, has heard it said that Baltimore is not
a dance city. She politely disagrees. For one thing, cities
don't dance; people do, she jokes. Or they will, if you
reach out and energize their interest.
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AIDS, TB, malaria, bird flu go unchecked in
Burma
Government policies in Burma that restrict public
health and humanitarian aid have created an environment
where AIDS, drug-resistant tuberculosis, malaria and bird
flu (H5N1) are spreading unchecked, according to a report
by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of
Public Health.
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