And as during festivals past, Chanel hosted a dinner in celebration of the artist program at the festival on Wednesday at the Odeon.

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Three years ago, the Russian bank decided to fund a program for young opera artists similar to what the Metropolitan Opera in New York does with the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program.

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Then he launched and ran an artist residency program in an Italian castle and for five years ran a similar program at the Montalvo Arts Center in Saratoga, California.

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It also mounts rotating exhibitions and has an artist in residency program.

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The Memphis Symphony Orchestra collaborated with hip-hop artist Al Kapone for a program of orchestral-backed rap as part of its Opus One series performed in alternative spaces.

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"There have been programs that have been around for decades that will get a computer to generate new material that crosses that line into the significant new, " such as a drawing program created by artist Harold Cohen.

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Just place your CD in the drive, and the program will quickly see the artist, title, and track titles, assuming you're connected to the Internet.

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The Stanford computer science program that Keeshin was trained in is trying to find more room for the artist alongside the engineer and entrepreneur in its student body.

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The program can manage a database of well over 5, 000 songs, and can categorize them according to artist, record, or genre.

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