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Archive for June, 2007

Home-Cooked Music

Are you fed up with the recording industry ? Hate having to follow everyone else’s schedules and pay fees up the wazoo for ridiculous things every time you record? Have you ever felt like you would just rather do it yourself ?  Well with the available technology and assistance these days, you certainly can. You [...]

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Raymond Hutchinson loves music. He loves it so much it oozes from his pores. It forms sedimentary layers in his shoes. It radiates from his every breath. Kinda hard to miss.
In a small room in the Hutchinsons’ garage, Ray has set up a studio. It would be silly to try to put a modifier in [...]

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Strike Up the Band

  This summer, don’t let yourself get lazy about picking up your instrument. Amid all the swimming and camping and kayaking, or whatever it is that you do when the temperatures soar, put yourself out there and join a community band.
For years now, the Rockville High School band has accepted community musicians to play in [...]

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MTV has partnered with The Body Shop to produce a new perfume – an eau de toilette called “Rougeberry.” Not only does it smell like fresh raspberries and freesia, mix extraordinarily with all five other scents in the Invent Your Scent line, and cost a mere $16(or 2 for $26!), but a percentage of the [...]

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 My husband and I have long been avid Broadway fanatics. We know all the words to the Rent soundtrack (of course I’m Mimi and Joanne and Maureen while he’s Mark and Collins and Benny and Roger, and we take turns being Angel). I’m addicted to Guys and Dolls. He’s addicted to Aida. And we’re famous [...]

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Summer of Steve

                    My father-in-law, Steve Nielsen, is a Renaissance man, to say the very least. He’s a loving husband, a firm-but-fabulous father, an affectionate pug-owner, and the director of Music & Worship at Trinity Covenant Church Manchester, CT. You may remember a pastarticle detailing his endeavor to produce an album of Christmas music with his phenomenal [...]

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