Release the Stars, the Glossary

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1. 162 relations: A-side and B-side, Accordion, Adresseavisen, Aftenposten, Alexis Petridis, AllMusic, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Angel Recording Studios, Anna Prohaska, ARIA Charts, Audio mixing (recorded music), Ballad, Banjo, Baritone saxophone, Baroque pop, Bass drum, Bauer Media Group, Bay Area Reporter, Berlin, Best Buy, Billboard (magazine), Billboard 200, Bongo drum, Brandon Flowers, Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, Canadian Americans, Carnegie Hall, Castanets, Classical guitar, Claviola, Cowbell (instrument), Cymbal, Dagbladet, Digital Spy, Double bass, Entertainment Weekly, Extended play, Folk music, Franz Schubert, Frederick the Great, French horn, Geffen Records, Giants (Greek mythology), GLAAD, Glastonbury Festival, Glockenspiel, Going to a Town, Gustav Mahler, Harp, Herald Sun, ... Expand index (112 more) »

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A-side and B-side

The A-side and B-side are the two sides of phonograph records and cassettes, and the terms have often been printed on the labels of two-sided music recordings.

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Accordion

Accordions (from 19th-century German, from —"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a reed in a frame).

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Adresseavisen

(commonly known as Adressa) is a regional newspaper published daily, except Sundays, in Trondheim, Norway.

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Aftenposten

Aftenposten (stylized as i in the masthead) is Norway's largest printed newspaper by circulation.

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Alexis Petridis

Alexis Petridis (born 13 September 1971) is a British journalist.

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AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database.

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Andrew Lloyd Webber

Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber, (born 22 March 1948) is an English composer and impresario of musical theatre.

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Angel Recording Studios

Angel Recording Studios Limited (also referred to as Angel Studios) is a British recording studio based in the eponymous recording and mixing complex in Islington, London.

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Anna Prohaska

Anna Prohaska (born June 27, 1983) is an Austrian-British lyric soprano.

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ARIA Charts

The ARIA Charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association.

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Audio mixing (recorded music)

In sound recording and reproduction, audio mixing is the process of optimizing and combining multitrack recordings into a final mono, stereo or surround sound product.

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Ballad

A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music.

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Banjo

The banjo is a stringed instrument with a thin membrane stretched over a frame or cavity to form a resonator.

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Baritone saxophone

The baritone saxophone (sometimes abbreviated to "bari sax") is a member of the saxophone family of instruments, larger (and lower-pitched) than the tenor saxophone, but smaller (and higher-pitched) than the bass.

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Baroque pop

Baroque pop (sometimes called baroque rock) is a fusion genre that combines rock music with particular elements of classical music.

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Bass drum

The bass drum is a large drum that produces a note of low definite or indefinite pitch.

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Heinrich Bauer Publishing (Heinrich Bauer Verlag KG), trading as Bauer Media Group, is a German multimedia conglomerate headquartered in Hamburg.

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Bay Area Reporter

The Bay Area Reporter is a free weekly LGBT newspaper serving the LGBT communities in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Berlin

Berlin is the capital and largest city of Germany, both by area and by population.

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Best Buy

Best Buy Co., Inc. is an American multinational consumer electronics retailer headquartered in Richfield, Minnesota.

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Billboard (magazine)

Billboard (stylized in lowercase since 2013) is an American music and entertainment magazine published weekly by Penske Media Corporation.

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Billboard 200

The Billboard 200 is a record chart ranking the 200 most popular music albums and EPs in the United States.

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Bongo drum

Bongos (Spanish: bongó) are an Afro-Cuban percussion instrument consisting of a pair of small open bottomed hand drums of different sizes.

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Brandon Flowers

Brandon Richard Flowers (born June 21, 1981) is an American musician.

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Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences

The Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (CARAS) is a non-profit organization responsible for promoting Canadian music and artists.

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Canadian Americans

Canadian Americans (Américains canadiens) are American citizens or in some uses residents whose ancestry is wholly or partly Canadian, or citizens of either country who hold dual citizenship.

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Carnegie Hall

Carnegie Hall is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.

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Castanets

Castanets, also known as clackers or palillos, are a percussion instrument (idiophone), used in Spanish, Calé, Moorish, Ottoman, Italian, Mexican, Sephardic, Portuguese and Swiss music.

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Classical guitar

The classical guitar, also known as Spanish guitar, is a member of the guitar family used in classical music and other styles.

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Claviola

The Claviola is a musical instrument that was designed in the 1960s by Hohner technician and designer Ernst Zacharias (inventor of the Pianet and Clavinet).

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Cowbell (instrument)

The cowbell is an idiophone hand percussion instrument used in various styles of music, such as Latin and rock.

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Cymbal

A cymbal is a common percussion instrument.

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Dagbladet

(The Daily Magazine) is one of Norway's largest newspapers and is published in the tabloid format.

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Digital Spy

Digital Spy (DS) is a British-based entertainment, television and film website and brand and is the largest digital property at Hearst UK.

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Double bass

The double bass, also known as the upright bass, the acoustic bass, or simply the bass, is the largest and lowest-pitched chordophone in the modern symphony orchestra (excluding rare additions such as the octobass).

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Entertainment Weekly

Entertainment Weekly (sometimes abbreviated as EW) is an American digital-only entertainment magazine based in New York City, published by Dotdash Meredith, that covers film, television, music, Broadway theatre, books, and popular culture.

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Extended play

An Extended Play (EP) is a musical recording that contains more tracks than a single but fewer than an album or LP record.

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Folk music

Folk music is a music genre that includes traditional folk music and the contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival.

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Franz Schubert

Franz Peter Schubert (31 January 179719 November 1828) was an Austrian composer of the late Classical and early Romantic eras.

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Frederick the Great

Frederick II (Friedrich II.; 24 January 171217 August 1786) was the monarch of Prussia from 1740 until 1786.

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French horn

The French horn (since the 1930s known simply as the horn in professional music circles) is a brass instrument made of tubing wrapped into a coil with a flared bell.

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Geffen Records

Geffen Records (formerly Geffen Records Inc. until 2004) is an American record label, founded in 1980 by David Geffen.

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Giants (Greek mythology)

In Greek and Roman mythology, the Giants, also called Gigantes (Greek: Γίγαντες, Gígantes, Γίγας, Gígas), were a race of great strength and aggression, though not necessarily of great size.

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GLAAD

GLAAD is an American non-governmental media monitoring organization.

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Glastonbury Festival

Glastonbury Festival (formally Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts and known colloquially as Glasto) is a five-day festival of contemporary performing arts held near Pilton, Somerset, England, in most summers.

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Glockenspiel

The glockenspiel (or,: bells and: play) or bells is a percussion instrument consisting of pitched aluminum or steel bars arranged in a keyboard layout.

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Going to a Town

"Going to a Town" is a song written and performed by Canadian-American singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright.

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Gustav Mahler

Gustav Mahler (7 July 1860 – 18 May 1911) was an Austro-Bohemian Romantic composer, and one of the leading conductors of his generation.

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Harp

The harp is a stringed musical instrument that has individual strings running at an angle to its soundboard; the strings are plucked with the fingers.

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Herald Sun

The Herald Sun is a conservative daily tabloid newspaper based in Melbourne, Australia, published by The Herald and Weekly Times, a subsidiary of News Corp Australia, itself a subsidiary of the Murdoch owned News Corp. The Herald Sun primarily serves Melbourne and the state of Victoria and shares many articles with other News Corporation daily newspapers, especially those from Australia.

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Homophobia

Homophobia encompasses a range of negative attitudes and feelings toward homosexuality or people who identify or are perceived as being lesbian, gay or bisexual.

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ITunes

iTunes was a media player, media library, mobile device management utility developed by Apple.

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Joan As Police Woman

Joan Wasser (born July 26, 1970) is an American musician, singer-songwriter and producer who releases music as Joan As Police Woman.

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Johnston Press

Johnston Press plc was a multimedia company founded in Falkirk, Scotland, in 1767.

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Juno Award for Adult Alternative Album of the Year

The Juno Award for Adult Alternative Album of the Year, administered by Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (CARAS), has been awarded since 2005 to recognize the best album in the adult alternative genre by a Canadian artist.

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Juno Award for Songwriter of the Year

The Juno Award for "Songwriter of the Year" has been awarded since 1971, as recognition each year for the best songwriter in Canada.

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Juno Awards of 2008

The Juno Awards of 2008 were held in Calgary, Alberta, Canada on the weekend ending 6 April 2008.

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Kate & Anna McGarrigle

Kate McGarrigle (February 6, 1946 – January 18, 2010) and Anna McGarrigle (born December 4, 1944) were a duo of Canadian singer-songwriters (and sisters) from Quebec, who performed until Kate McGarrigle's death on January 18, 2010.

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Kate McGarrigle

Kate McGarrigle (February 6, 1946 – January 18, 2010), January 19, 2010 was a Canadian folk music singer-songwriter, who wrote and performed as a duo with her sister Anna McGarrigle.

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Leonard Cohen

Leonard Norman Cohen (September 21, 1934November 7, 2016) was a Canadian singer-songwriter, poet, and novelist.

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Liner notes

Liner notes (also sleeve notes or album notes) are the writings found on the sleeves of LP record albums and in booklets that come inserted into the compact disc jewel case or cassette j-cards.

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Logo TV

Logo TV (often shortened to Logo, and stylized as Logo.) is an American basic cable channel owned by Paramount Media Networks, a division of Paramount Global.

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Long underwear

Long underwear, also called long johns or thermal underwear, is underwear with long legs and long sleeves that is normally worn during cold weather.

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Loop (music)

In music, a loop is a repeating section of sound material.

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Loudon Wainwright III

Loudon Snowden Wainwright III (born September 5, 1946) is an American singer-songwriter and occasional actor.

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Lucy Wainwright Roche

Lucy Wainwright Roche (born December 16, 1981) is an American singer-songwriter.

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Ludwig van Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven (baptised 17 December 177026 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist.

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Marimba

The marimba is a musical instrument in the percussion family that consists of wooden bars that are struck by mallets.

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Marius de Vries

Marius de Vries (born 1961) is an English music producer and composer.

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Martha Wainwright

Martha Wainwright (born May 8, 1976) is a Canadian singer-songwriter and musician.

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Martha Wainwright discography

The discography of Martha Wainwright, a Canadian-American singer-songwriter, consists of six studio albums, one live album, one soundtrack album, five extended plays (EPs), six singles (including one as a featured artist), and ten music videos.

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Mass media include the diverse arrays of media that reach a large audience via mass communication.

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Mediahuis Ireland (formally Independent News and Media, or INM) is a Belgian/Dutch-owned media organisation that is based in Dublin and publishes national daily newspapers, Sunday newspapers, regional newspapers and operates multiple websites including Independent.

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Metacritic is a website that aggregates reviews of films, television shows, music albums, video games, and formerly books.

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Metropolitan Opera

The Metropolitan Opera (commonly known as the Met) is an American opera company based in New York City, currently resident at the Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center, situated on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

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Mojo (magazine)

Mojo (stylised in all caps) is a popular music magazine published monthly in the United Kingdom, initially by Emap, and since January 2008 by Bauer.

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Moulin Rouge!

Moulin Rouge! is a 2001 jukebox musical romantic drama film directed, produced, and co-written by Baz Luhrmann.

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MTV

MTV (originally an initialism of Music Television) is an American cable television channel.

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MTV (British and Irish TV channel)

MTV is a British pay television channel focusing on reality TV and music programming operated by Paramount Networks UK & Australia.

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Music Canada

Music Canada is a non-profit trade organization that was founded 9 April 1963 in Toronto to represent the interests of companies that record, manufacture, produce, and distribute music in Canada.

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Music download

A music download (commonly referred to as a digital download) is the digital transfer of music via the Internet into a device capable of decoding and playing it, such as a personal computer, portable media player, MP3 player or smartphone.

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Music journalism

Music journalism (or music criticism) is media criticism and reporting about music topics, including popular music, classical music, and traditional music.

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Music recording certification

Music recording certification is a system of certifying that a music recording has shipped, sold, or streamed a certain number of units.

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Myspace

Myspace (formerly stylized as MySpace; also myspace and sometimes my␣, with an elongated open box symbol) is a social networking service based in the United States.

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Neil Tennant

Neil Francis Tennant (born 10 July 1954) is an English singer, songwriter and music journalist, and co-founder of the synth-pop duo the Pet Shop Boys, which he formed with Chris Lowe in 1981.

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News Corporation

The original incarnation of News Corporation (abbreviated News Corp. and also variously known as News Corporation Limited) was an American multinational mass media corporation controlled by media mogul Rupert Murdoch and headquartered at 1211 Avenue of the Americas in New York City.

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Nielsen Holdings

Nielsen Holdings plc (or Nielsen) is an American information, data and market measurement firm.

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NME

New Musical Express (NME) is a British music, film, gaming, and culture website and brand.

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Official Charts Company

The Official Charts Company (OCC or Official Charts; previously known as the Chart Information Network, CIN, and the Official UK Charts Company; legally known as the Official UK Charts Company Limited) is a British inter-professional organisation that compiles various official record charts in the United Kingdom, Ireland and France.

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Pergamon Altar

The Pergamon Altar was a monumental construction built during the reign of the Ancient Greek King Eumenes II in the first half of the 2nd century BC on one of the terraces of the acropolis of Pergamon in Asia Minor (modern-day Turkey).

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Pet Shop Boys

Pet Shop Boys are an English synth-pop duo formed in London in 1981.

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Piccolo trumpet

The piccolo trumpet is the smallest member of the trumpet family, pitched one octave higher than the standard B trumpet.

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Pitchfork (website)

Pitchfork (formerly Pitchfork Media) is an American online music publication founded in 1996 by Ryan Schreiber in Minneapolis.

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Presidency of George W. Bush

George W. Bush's tenure as the 43rd president of the United States began with his first inauguration on January 20, 2001, and ended on January 20, 2009.

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Q (magazine)

Q was a popular music magazine.

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Radio City Music Hall

Radio City Music Hall (also known as Radio City) is an entertainment venue and theater at 1260 Avenue of the Americas, within Rockefeller Center, in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City.

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Recorder (musical instrument)

The recorder is a family of woodwind musical instruments in the group known as internal duct flutes: flutes with a whistle mouthpiece, also known as fipple flutes.

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Richard Thompson (musician)

Richard Thompson (born 3 April 1949) is an English singer, songwriter, and guitarist.

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Robert Christgau

Robert Thomas Christgau (born April 18, 1942) is an American music journalist and essayist.

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Robert Wilson (director)

Robert Wilson (born October 4, 1941) is an American experimental theater stage director and playwright who has been described by The New York Times as "'s – or even the world's – foremost vanguard 'theater artist.

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Rococo

Rococo, less commonly Roccoco, also known as Late Baroque, is an exceptionally ornamental and dramatic style of architecture, art and decoration which combines asymmetry, scrolling curves, gilding, white and pastel colours, sculpted moulding, and trompe-l'œil frescoes to create surprise and the illusion of motion and drama.

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Rufus Does Judy at Carnegie Hall

Rufus Does Judy at Carnegie Hall is the sixth album (and first live album) by the Canadian-American singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright, released through Geffen Records in December 2007. Release the Stars and Rufus Does Judy at Carnegie Hall are Rufus Wainwright albums.

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Rufus Wainwright

Rufus McGarrigle Wainwright (born July 22, 1973) is a Canadian-American singer, songwriter, and composer.

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Rules and Regulations (song)

"Rules and Regulations" is a song written and performed by Canadian-American singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright.

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Salon.com

Salon is an American politically progressive and liberal news and opinion website created in 1995.

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Sam Taylor-Johnson

Samantha Louise Taylor-Johnson (née Taylor-Wood; born 4 March 1967) is a British film director and artist.

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Sampling (music)

In sound and music, sampling is the reuse of a portion (or sample) of a sound recording in another recording.

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Sanssouci

Sanssouci is a historical building in Potsdam, near Berlin.

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Sanssouci (song)

"Sanssouci" is a song written by Rufus Wainwright; appearing as a track on his fifth studio album, Release the Stars (2007).

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Schibsted

Schibsted Media Group is an international media group.

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Scotland on Sunday

Scotland on Sunday is a Scottish Sunday newspaper, published in Edinburgh by National World and consequently assuming the role of Sunday sister to its daily stablemate The Scotsman.

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SF Weekly

SF Weekly is an online music publication and formerly alternative weekly newspaper founded in the 1970s in San Francisco, California.

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Shaker (musical instrument)

The word shaker describes various percussive musical instruments used for creating rhythm in music.

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Siân Phillips

Dame Jane Elizabeth Ailwên Phillips (born 14 May 1933), known professionally as Siân Phillips, is a Welsh actress.

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Single (music)

In music, a single is a type of release of a song recording of fewer tracks than an album or LP record, typically one or two tracks.

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Slant Magazine

Slant Magazine is an American online publication that features reviews of movies, music, TV, DVDs, theater, and video games, as well as interviews with actors, directors, and musicians.

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Smokey & Miho

Smokey & Miho was a musical group named after lead vocalists Miho Hatori and Smokey Hormel.

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Sophie Muller

Sophie Luise Elisabeth Muller (born 31 January 1962) is a British music video director who has directed over 300 music videos.

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Spoken word

Spoken word is an oral poetic performance art that is based mainly on the poem as well as the performer's aesthetic qualities.

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Steven Bernstein (musician)

Steven Bernstein (born October 8, 1961) is an American trumpeter, slide trumpeter, arranger/composer and bandleader based in New York City.

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String section

The string section is composed of bowed instruments belonging to the violin family.

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Tabla

A tabla is a pair of hand drums from the Indian subcontinent.

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Tambourine

The tambourine is a musical instrument in the percussion family consisting of a frame, often of wood or plastic, with pairs of small metal jingles, called "zills".

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Teddy Thompson

Teddy Thompson (born 19 February 1976) is an English folk and rock musician.

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Tenor saxophone

The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s.

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The Boston Globe

The Boston Globe, also known locally as the Globe, is an American daily newspaper founded and based in Boston, Massachusetts.

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The Fab Faux

The Fab Faux is a musical tribute band performing the works of the Beatles (whose members were often known as the "Fab Four").

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Herald and Weekly Times

The Herald and Weekly Times Pty Ltd (HWT) is a newspaper publishing company based in Melbourne, Australia.

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The Independent

The Independent is a British online newspaper.

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The Japan Times

The Japan Times is Japan's largest and oldest English-language daily newspaper.

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The Killers

The Killers are an American rock band formed in Las Vegas in 2001 by Brandon Flowers (lead vocals, keyboards, bass) and Dave Keuning (lead guitar, backing vocals).

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The London Session Orchestra

The London Session Orchestra was a film, TV, and pop orchestra based in London.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Observer

The Observer is a British newspaper published on Sundays.

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The Phantom of the Opera (1986 musical)

The Phantom of the Opera is a musical with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by Charles Hart, additional lyrics by Richard Stilgoe and a libretto by Lloyd Webber and Stilgoe.

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The Phantom of the Opera (song)

"The Phantom of the Opera" is a song from the 1986 stage musical of the same name.

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The Times

The Times is a British daily national newspaper based in London.

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TI Media (formerly International Publishing Company, IPC Magazines Ltd, IPC Media and Time Inc. UK) was a consumer magazine and digital publisher in the United Kingdom, with a portfolio selling over 350 million copies each year.

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Tiergarten (park)

The Tiergarten (Animal Garden), formal German name: Großer Tiergarten (Greater Animal Garden, or deer park, game hunting park), is Berlin's most popular inner-city park, located completely in the district of the same name.

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Tiergarten (song)

"Tiergarten" is a song written and performed by Canadian-American singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright.

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Time Inc.

Time Inc. was an American worldwide mass media corporation founded on November 28, 1922, by Henry Luce and Briton Hadden and based in New York City.

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Timpani

Timpani or kettledrums (also informally called timps) are musical instruments in the percussion family.

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TiVo Corporation

TiVo Corporation, formerly known as the Rovi Corporation and Macrovision Solutions Corporation, was an American technology company headquartered in San Jose, California.

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Triangle (musical instrument)

The triangle is a musical instrument in the percussion family, classified as an idiophone in the Hornbostel-Sachs classification system.

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Trombone

The trombone (Posaune, Italian, French: trombone) is a musical instrument in the brass family.

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Tulsa, Oklahoma

Tulsa is the second-most-populous city in the state of Oklahoma, after Oklahoma City, and is the 48th-most-populous city in the United States.

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Twelve-inch single

The twelve-inch single (often written as 12-inch or 12) is a type of vinyl (polyvinyl chloride or PVC) gramophone record that has wider groove spacing and shorter playing time with a "single" or a few related sound tracks on each surface, compared to LPs (long play) which have several songs on each side.

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UK Albums Chart

The Official UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by sales and audio streaming in the United Kingdom.

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UK singles chart

The UK Singles Chart (currently titled the Official Singles Chart, with the upper section more commonly known as the Official UK Top 40) is compiled by the Official Charts Company (OCC), on behalf of the British record industry, listing the top-selling singles in the United Kingdom, based upon physical sales, paid-for downloads and streaming.

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Uncut (magazine)

Uncut is a monthly magazine based in London.

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Valentine's Day

Valentine's Day, also called Saint Valentine's Day or the Feast of Saint Valentine, is celebrated annually on February 14.

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Vibraphone

The vibraphone (also called the vibraharp) is a percussion instrument in the metallophone family.

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Village Voice Media or VVM is a newspaper company.

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Virgin Books

Virgin Books is a British book publisher 90% owned by the publishing group Random House, and 10% owned by Virgin Group, the company originally set up by Richard Branson as a record company.

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Walmart

Walmart Inc. (formerly Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.) is an American multinational retail corporation that operates a chain of hypermarkets (also called supercenters), discount department stores, and grocery stores in the United States, headquartered in Bentonville, Arkansas.

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Want One

Want One is the third studio album by the Canadian-American singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright, released through DreamWorks Records on September 23, 2003. Release the Stars and Want One are Rufus Wainwright albums.

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Want Two

Want Two is the fourth album by American-Canadian singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright. Release the Stars and Want Two are Geffen Records albums and Rufus Wainwright albums.

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 17565 December 1791) was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period.

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Woodblock (instrument)

A woodblock (also spelled as two words, wood block) is a small slit drum made from a single piece of wood.

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The GLAAD Media Awards were created in 1990 by the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) to "recognize and honor media for their fair, accurate and inclusive representations of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community and the issues that affect their deads." Here, the nominees of the 19th GLAAD Media Awards, awarded in 2008, are listed.

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7digital

7digital Group PLC is a British publicly listed company that offers access to music, tracking and reporting for clients.

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See also

Rufus Wainwright albums

• All Days Are Nights: Songs for Lulu
• All I Want (Rufus Wainwright DVD)
• Alright, Already: Live in Montréal
• Folkocracy
• House of Rufus
• Milwaukee at Last!!!
• Out of the Game
• Poses (album)
• Prima Donna (Rufus Wainwright album)
• Release the Stars
• Rufus Does Judy at Capitol Studios
• Rufus Does Judy at Carnegie Hall
• Rufus Wainwright (album)
• Rufus Wainwright and Amsterdam Sinfonietta Live
• Rufus Wainwright: Live from the Artists Den
• Rufus! Rufus! Rufus! Does Judy! Judy! Judy!: Live from the London Palladium
• Take All My Loves: 9 Shakespeare Sonnets
• Tiergarten (EP)
• Unfollow the Rules
• Vibrate: The Best of Rufus Wainwright
• Waiting for a Want
• Want (Rufus Wainwright album)
• Want One
• Want Two

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Release_the_Stars

Also known as Between My Legs, Do I Disappoint You, Nobody's Off the Hook, Not Ready to Love, Release the Stars (Rufus Wainwright song), Release the Stars (album), Release the Stars (song), Release the Stars Tour, Slideshow (Rufus Wainwright song), Slideshow (song), Tulsa (Rufus Wainwright song).

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