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		<title>Seattle Symphony Day of Music</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2011 03:21:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sunday, 18 September 2011, 12:45-1:15pm Kidnapping Water: Bottled Operas Seattle Symphony Day of Music 2nd Avenue &#38; University Street Benaroya Hall, Seattle &#124; MAP FREE Kidnapping Water: Bottled Operas appears at the Seattle Symphony&#8217;s Day of Music. Soprano Betsy Baeskens performs with percussionists Byron Au Yong and Stuart McLeod in the fountains in the Garden [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kwbo.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3866766&amp;post=441&amp;subd=kwbo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Water and the World</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[From 2004-2005, I lived on East 6th Street between Avenue C and D in the East Village in Manhattan. I remember walking along the East River. The disconcerting experience of being near this waterway was that I never heard the water. The swoosh of cars along East River Drive drowned out the lap of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kwbo.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3866766&amp;post=422&amp;subd=kwbo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Water Stethoscope</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Oct 2010 01:07:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To listen to water around the world, visit aqua-scape. It is a website from Japan that records water and streams it online. Presently, there are four locations to hear: Sanshiro Pond at the University of Tokyo Shokoku-ji Zuisyun-in Suikinkutsu in Kyoto Pier 28 in San Francisco a location in Mumbai The interactive graphic of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kwbo.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3866766&amp;post=419&amp;subd=kwbo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kidnapping Water Trailer</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 23:04:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back from Los Angeles, where filmmaker Vivian Umino cobbled together a trailer from footage of a Kidnapping Water: Bottled Operas performance at Kubota Garden. Thanks Viv. The source material was sketchy, but the trailer looks great. Posted in Movies Tagged: Kubota Garden, trailer<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kwbo.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3866766&amp;post=415&amp;subd=kwbo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>H2O Challenge</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The H2O Project drills clean water wells around the world. Here are stats from their website: 1. Every 15 seconds, a child dies because of a lack of clean drinking water. That is 6,000 children per day, or two million per year.  2. In most cases, clean water is right beneath their feet, but there [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kwbo.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3866766&amp;post=411&amp;subd=kwbo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Finalist</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 21:20:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kidnapping Water: Bottled Operas was selected as a 2009 Richard Rodgers Award Finalist. While the Bottled Operas didn&#8217;t win an award, I&#8217;m amazed that this honor given to musical theater works considered including the Bottled Operas &#8211; a set of 64 works to be performed by any number of musicians, outdoors in the water. Thanks [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kwbo.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3866766&amp;post=406&amp;subd=kwbo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>CD Makes a Splash</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 19:28:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New audio recording features opera singers and water percussionists Seattle, WA &#8212; February 17, 2009 &#8211; One day, composer Byron Au Yong was overcome in the bottled water section of the supermarket. He heard voices from Poland Spring and Fiji cry out. Au Yong, a Seattle-based musician who composes songs of dislocation, realized that water [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kwbo.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3866766&amp;post=402&amp;subd=kwbo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>CD Released</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[23 of 64 Bottled Operas are now available on the Kidnapping Water CD. CDs and MP3s are available at CD Baby. Posted in Music Tagged: CD<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kwbo.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3866766&amp;post=394&amp;subd=kwbo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Holidays</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 18:17:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 16:04:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a six-year battle with California-American Water, a subsidiary of the German multinational corporation  Rheinisch-Westfsches Elektrizitwerk Aktiengesellschaft [RWE], a town in Northern California called Felton and the San Lorenzo Valley Water District manage and own their own water. Their model, Friends for Locally Controlled Water [FLOW], shows how American citizens band together and create communities where water is locally controlled. Their website includes poetry [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kwbo.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3866766&amp;post=385&amp;subd=kwbo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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