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NY museum highlights music, stars and cultural importance of Harlem's Apollo Theater - Big Hollywood

Posted: 02 Feb 2011 07:58 AM PST

The Associated Press NEW YORK, N.Y. - New York City's Apollo Theater launched the careers of such legends as Ella Fitzgerald. It also was the site of memorial services for Michael Jackson and James Brown, and a 2007 presidential campaign rally for Barack Obama.

A new exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York will highlight these and other seminal events of the 75-year-old landmark in the Harlem neighbourhood.

The exhibit, "Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing," will run from Feb. 8 to May 1.

Highlights include record album covers, costumes and accessories belonging to Count Basie, Louis Armstrong and other iconic artists.

The exhibit also will include letters from Adam Clayton Powell and Martin Luther King Jr.

It has been organized by the Apollo and the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture.

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Online:

http://www.apollotheatre.org

The Canadian Press, 2011

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A cultural guide to Munich - Daily Telegraph

Posted: 25 Jan 2011 09:47 AM PST

It's also premier league in the graphic-art arena. The three Pinakothek galleries, Old, New and Modern, are so well stocked they merit several days. Among the Titians, Breugels, Leonardos and Rubens, the Old Gallery's highlight is Dürer's Christ-like self portrait. The New Pinakothek, based on King Ludwig's private collection, boasts an all-star team, including Friedrich, Goya, Manet, Monet, Cézanne, Pissarro, Renoir, Degas, Gauguin and van Gogh with Gainsborough in goal.

Munich's 36 top-rank museums, meanwhile, demand pages to list. Ludwig's Glyptothek, a neoclassical Acropolis built to house his Greek antiquities, incorporates the fabulous Temple of Aegina (like the Elgin Marbles, Greece craves its return).

The Munich Museum tells the city's history; a warts-and-all section devoted to its two Nazi decades. The Deutsches Museum, meanwhile, brings technology to life. It's as big and multifarious as an independent city, and you climb from coal mines in the cellar via U-boats, ships and Zeppelins to the space age in the loft. Sculpture-strewn parks include the Renaissance Royal Court Garden and the Englisher Garten, the world's biggest urban green space complete with river and lakes that brings Bavarian countryside to the city's graceful heart. Horse-drawn carriages convey you to the Chinese Tower, a beer garden for 200 years.

For in Munich beer is culture, too. Few first-time visitors evade the emblematic Hofbräuhaus, the cavernous state-owned beer hall built in 1589. A true historical monument with an atmosphere that is merry veering to raucous. And the beer is as delicious as the oompah band is unflagging. Although famous for beer, it's soon apparent why Munich believes that for music and art, museums and antiquities, palaces and gardens, few other cities can rival it. The Wittelsbach family that ruled Bavaria for seven centuries wanted a capital like a new Athens but spiced with Versailles's glamour and echoing to the music of the gods. Though the throne remained empty after Ludwig II, the Wittelsbachs left a cornucopian cultural feast.
In the sumptuous Royal Residence, whose 130 glittering apartments take two days to see, the exquisite Rococo Cuvilliés Theatre from 1755, scene of Mozart's first opera, is still used for concerts daily.

DID YOU KNOW?

Munich's famous white sausages are only served before noon – after which neither love nor money will buy you one.

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