Having read "Peer Gynt, " and having seen it presented with no more than minimal music, I wish someone could have talked Ibsen into radically reducing and editing the text.

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Back then, there was also no way to discover more music from the same artist unless you were in a store looking through their discography or perhaps reading about them in a magazine.

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Houston made hospitals an industry, Miami's the international gateway to Latin America, and Nashville sold itself on music with, Kapakov points out, no more and certainly no better entertainers than New Orleans.

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While Zune devices will still work with Windows 7, and the Zune Pass simply becomes the Xbox Music Pass, the brand is effectively no more, joining the Kin and Microsoft Bob in the annals of MS history.

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The Beatles, who no longer tour, do not regard music sales as loss leaders for more profitable concerts, as many bands do.

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We live in a much more celebrity laden era, but there is no current star, certainly not in music, who holds a candle to the kind of admiration and reverence the King enjoyed.

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Music can move people and can get them to act, and no where does this advertising maxim ring more true than in India and among Indians around the world.

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