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‘Tres Vidas’ Three lives, a singular experience By Mнa R. Cortez “Tres Vidas,” a theater piece featuring a single actress and a musical trio, will portray the lives of three legendary Latin-American women this Friday at UTEP’s Magoffin Auditorium. Backed by the Core Ensemble, actress Karina Barros will play Mexican painter Frida Kahlo, Salvadoran peasant-activist [...]

The Rep’s musical take on Emma suffers from too much exposition and not nearly enough zing

Jane Austen , Emma , Repertory Theatre of St. Louis , Paul Gordon , musicals So much visual splendor provides an apt setting for the ebullience of Paul Gordon’s music and lyrics, which are readily accessible on a first hearing. In tune with the show’s rustic motif, a small chamber quartet (piano, oboe/English horn, cello, [...]

I’m not creative, just wired to write plays

I don t think if I started (writing plays) in my early 20s, I would have written good ones, he says. There is a certain time when someone starts doing what he does well. Mozart started at 8. George Bernard Shaw was 42 when he wrote his first play. I knew when I wrote ( [...]

West Bank legends to be inducted into Minnesota Blues Hall of Fame

Koerner, Ray and Glover will receive the recording award for their 1963 album Blues, Rags and Hollers . The translucent red vinyl ‘” of which only 300 copies were pressed in 1963 ‘” ‘њarrived at precisely the moment in the history of American music when ‘folk’ musicians began to turn their attention to the heritage [...]

Rock the Dock rocks again

Rock the Dock this year will raise funds for perpetual care and landscaping costs for the memorial. Some proceeds from the party will go to the St. George fuel assistance program and the St. George ambulance service. Highlights of the event include raffles, the auctioning of a 14-foot skiff, and Port Clyde lobsterman Doug Anderson’s [...]

The Coast Report

Photos by Kevin Warn Orange Coast College s flamenco students make a colorful splash at the Dia de la Raza festival in the Quad Sunday. Bodies pivoted, spun and stepped in cadence to euphonious sounds Sunday as the Quad was transformed into a dance floor for the Dia de la Raza festival. The free day-long [...]

Classic ‘Gao Sha Guen’ to be staged in Taipei

Using dance, singing, classic Taiwanese old songs, the Uhan Shii Theatre Group will present the Taiwanese classical work “Gao Sha Guen,” a production first debuted in 1943 during the Japanese occupation period, in National Experimental Theatre from Friday through Sunday that would surely mesmerize you with a view of how life was like seven decades [...]

hype gripes and the other side of the Adele argument

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Thunder Bay Symphony’s Youth Orchestra Plays a Vital Role

THUNDER BAY, ON - October 15, 2008 - Its Tuesday after school, and Kieran Somerfield and friends are using the last few minutes before rehearsal to warm up their instrument. Jane Saunders director of the Thunder Bay Youth Symphony has been conducting this orchestra through some turbulent times with success. The orchestra once based from [...]

New Wii Game Allows User To Play, Conduct Music

As you can probably guess from the title, “Wii Music” is about playing simulating playing various instruments, including air guitar, clarinet, and violin. “There are 50 pieces of music, 60 different instruments,” explained David Young of Nintendo. “So for each individual piece of music, there’s almost an unlimited number of ways you can play it. [...]