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An ultra-orthodox soap opera
There is a powerful play trying to emerge from a script spinning its wheels over at the Adolph & Rose Levis Jewish Community Center in Boca Raton. Naomi Ragen's "Women's Minyan" gets a competent staging there by the West Boca Theatre Company. The...
Tags: Christianity, Christian Orthodoxy, Judaism, Religion and Belief, Recreational and Sporting Goods Industry
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Ward Stare returns to Lyric Opera, with a baton
You've heard of pianist-conductors, violinist-conductors, even the occasional cellist-conductor. But how many conductors can you name who began their careers playing first trombone with a major American opera company while still in their teens? Ward...
Tags: Culture, Entertainment Events, Music Industry, Civic Opera House, Festive Events
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Lyric's kid-friendly 'Pasquale' delights grownups too
"Don Pasquale" isn't exactly the first show that springs to mind when you're looking for an opera to hook young children on opera. Look a little closer, however, and you realize Donizetti's tuneful score is very kid-friendly. And what sitcom-weaned...
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Candlelight Concert Society's brassy 40th anniversary in Columbia
The Candlelight Concert Society is tooting its own horn by commissioning a new piece of music to celebrate its 40th anniversary season. Paul Salerni's "Many Happy Returns" receives its world premiere performance by the Philadelphia Brass Quintet on...
Tags: Culture, Duke Ellington, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Entertainment Events, Music Industry
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Lyric names interim chorus director
Lyric Opera has appointed Ian Robertson, chorus director of the San Francisco Opera, guest chorus master for the remainder of the season while the company continues to search for a permanent chorus director. Robertson will serve as guest chorus master...Tags: Entertainment, Poetry, Music
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Movies for everyone this winter
It's getting cold out there, and what better way to keep warm than by cozying up for a flick at your local cinema? This season, there is no shortage of quality films to watch, whether you're looking for something escapist, such as Peter Jackson's...
Tags: Keri Russell, Samuel L. Jackson, Ang Lee, Nick Nolte, Kerry Washington
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Jazz composer, pianist Dave Brubeck dies
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Jazz composer and pianist Dave Brubeck, whose pioneering style in pieces such as "Take Five" caught listeners' ears with exotic, challenging rhythms, has died. He was 91. Brubeck died Wednesday morning of heart failure after...
Tags: Viral Diseases and Infections, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Music Industry, Dave Brubeck, NASA
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'Butterfly' subtext in 'Fatal Attraction' still can't be ignored
A man has a casual affair with a woman and then dumps her. The woman, now with child, longs for his return but is coldly rebuffed. Humiliated and left with nothing to live for, she kills herself with a sharp blade to the throat. The story of Puccini's...
Tags: Entertainment, Adrian Lyne, Glenn Close, Anne Archer, Meatpacking District
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From the archives: Dave Brubeck at 90: 'I'm very fortunate'
Two years before Dave Brubeck died, the Los Angeles Times published an interview with the great jazzman on the occasion of his 90th birthday. With Brubeck's death at 92, we share our visit to his home in this profile from Dec. 5, 2010. WILTON, Conn --...
Tags: Clint Eastwood, Duke Ellington, Robert De Niro, Entertainment Events, Music Industry
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Los Angeles Opera says it has repaid $14 million emergency loan
Leaders at Los Angeles Opera are breathing a little easier now that a huge financial burden has been lifted from their shoulders. L.A. Opera is announcing Wednesday that it has fully repaid a $14 million emergency loan it received in 2009, a loan...
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Anniversary song tells of chorus's ability
When the Orange County Women's Chorus commissioned Kirke Mechem to compose a piece to celebrate their 15th anniversary, he gave them "We Can Sing That" — a song about how the choir can perform any kind of music effortlessly. If Mechem had titled...
Tags: Entertainment, Christianity, Culture, Poetry, Religion and Belief
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Kinsley: For love of 'Downton Abbey'
As an Anglophile, I'm as pathetic as the next chap. My idea of a good time is to be in London, drinking at lunch with some well-lubricated British journalist friends, stumbling out when it's getting dark, tea at a fancy hotel and then theater in the...
Tags: Maggie Smith, Dustin Hoffman, Julian Fellowes, Blackmail and Extortion, Downton Abbey (tv program)
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