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MUSIC BOX

Singers need all the help they can get: reasons not to get hot under the collar about the dark arts of miming...A perennial problem with staging Wagner: “Is there any other medium in which mediocrity is so encouraged?”...The guru of mass-market classical music argues that he can draw the crowds without dumbing-down...Rapper Kanye West wins the UK pop critics' poll of polls...Totting up the box office figures at the end of a year on Broadway... Never knowingly understated, jazz composer Charles Mingus speaks his mind in Downbeat’s vintage blindfold test... Pop siren Kate Bush plots a comeback.

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