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The soaring 'Slumdog Millionaire' soundtrack's three Oscar nominations and Golden Globe award marked many Americans' first exposure to the music of A.R. Rahman. But in his native India, the composer has been a national treasure for years. The 43-year ...

New Delhi, Jan 26 (IANS) Yesteryears' dancing queen Helen, Bollywood diva Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, action star Akshay Kumar and music maestro Hridyanath Mangeshkar are among those named for this year's Padma Shri awards. The inimitable Helen, 69 ...

Marni Nixon has joined the upcoming Encores! presentation of Music in the Air, she replaces Sally Ann Howes who had to drop out due to an illness. Marni Nixon, is known in the popular world as the singing voice behind the stars of West Side Story, The King and I and My Fair Lady. An accomplished singer in her own right, she has has sung opera, classical song and appeared on Broadway. Ms. Nixon worked with Lehmann in a production of Ariadne auf Naxos at the Music Academy of the West and considered her a friend. Besides her singing career, Marni Nixon is also an actress, recently nominated for an Ovation award. She gives master clases throughout the country in musical theater and classical song. She was last seen on Broadway in NINE and The Dead. Music in the Air, a rarely seen 1932 musical, will be directed by Gary Griffin with music direction by Rob Berman and choreography by Michael Lichtefeld. The production runs for five performances at City Center, West 55th Street (between 6th an

NEW DELHI — The soaring 'Slumdog Millionaire' soundtrack's three Oscar nominations and Golden Globe award marked many Americans' first exposure to the music of A.R. Rahman. But in his native India, the composer has been a national treasure for years...

CTV.ca'Slumdog' composer Rahman is the toast of IndiaThe Associated Press - 9 hours agoThe 43-year-old composer has been winning awards since he burst on the Bollywood music scene in the early '90s ? blending styles rarely seen in mainstream ...Video: Slumdog Millionaire's storyline questioned - 23 Jan 2009 AlJazeeraEnglishBollywood stars show up at 'Slumdog' Indian premiere ScotsmanBollywood's Bachchan apologises to 'Slumdog' director AFPDesi Hits! - Rediffall 2,008 news articles

Van Hill Entertainment is proud to announce that the Off-Broadway premiere of ROOMS a rock romance, starring Leslie Kritzer and Doug Kreeger, will begin performances on Friday February 27th at New World Stages/Stage 2 (340 West 50th Street). opening night is set for Monday March 16th (7 PM).ROOMS a rock romance has music and lyrics by Paul Scott Goodman (Bright Lights Big City) and book by Goodman and Miriam Gordon, and will be directed by Scott Schwartz (Golda's Balcony, Bat Boy: The Musical, tick, tick... BOOM!, Jane Eyre).

Academy of Vocal Arts Any chance to hear AVA's singers outside its acoustically dry headquarters on Spruce Street must be seized - especially in annual concert performances of musically worthy but seldom heard operas, in this case Respighi's luxuriously s

Londoner Florence Welch is poised for a stratospheric career boost thanks to a self-penned song about the gut-wrenching twists of a psychologically intense relationship, '