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Patti Smith to be honored by music industry
- Punk rock pioneer Patti Smith will receive a lifetime achievement award from the music industry next month in honor of her genre-bending 40-year career as singer, poet, political activist and painter.

Geneva's 'Parsifal' ends in embrace
- Geneva's new "Parsifal" production escaped the boos heard after several recent Richard Wagner opera premieres at the Grand Theatre, with a richly colored staging accompanying music that was at times so sensuous the allegory of Christian salvation seemed destined to end in embrace.

Ian McEwan plans opera version of 'Atonement'
- It was a book, then an award-winning film. Now Ian McEwan's "Atonement" is to become an opera.

Producer files $30M suit against Lady Gaga in NYC
- Lady Gaga's spokesman is declining to comment on a music producer's lawsuit.

No charges for son over conductor's Swiss suicide
- British prosecutors say they will not charge the son of conductor Edward Downes and his wife with assisting their suicides at a Swiss clinic last year.

No deal for Paula Abdul at ABC
- Paula Abdul won't be judging "Star Search."

Lady Gaga sued for $30 million by jilted producer
- A former producer to pop sensation Lady Gaga has sued his one-time protege for more than $30 million claiming he was instrumental to her success but unable to profit from it when their romance ended.

Polanski lawyers seek inquiry into misconduct
- Roman Polanski's attorneys filed an appeal Thursday asking that a special counsel be appointed to investigate alleged judicial and prosecutorial misconduct in the director's 32-year-old sex case.