The Bolshoi in Cinema—Giselle
By Norm Robins This season the Bolshoi Ballet in Cinema is continuing its classics including Giselle, a standard beloved over
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Backstage Review—Take Five II at Brüka Theater
Take Five was performed Friday and Saturday nights, January 12 and 13, 2020, and what a couple of nights they were. It seemed like all the artistic talent in Northern Nevada lined up to help Brüka with its second annual Take Five fundraiser.
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Take 5 at Brüka Theater
By Norm Robins Everyone of a certain age knows “Take 5”. It was played by the Dave Brubeck Quartet with
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Backstage Review—What Rhymes with America
~Review by Norm Robins~ ~Photos by Brittney Graves and Norm Robins~ Hank, recently divorced by Gina, are the parents of
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Reno Chamber Orchestra—Martin Majkut, Conductor, and Bella Hristova, Violin
Born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia), Majkut graduated from the State Conservatory and served as Assistant Conductor of the Slovak Philharmonic while earning his Ph.D. in conducting at the Academy of Performing Arts. While studying, he worked with the Slovak Philharmonic, Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Slovak State Philharmonic and Slovak Sinfonietta.
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The Bolshoi in Cinemas—Le Corsaire
Pirates, slave girls, pashas, eunuchs, heroes, a spurned wife, damsels in love and in distress, flamboyant costumes, 120 dancers, a shipwreck (what’s a ballet without a shipwreck?), this ballet has them all. Originally done a century ago, based on a poem of the same name by Byron, and choreographed by Marius Petipa, Le Corsaire has been gloriously updated and rechoreographed by Alexei Ratmansky and Yuri Burlaka.
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Pelish at the Movies – ‘Parasite’
~By Norm Robins~ One might think it strange that “Pelish at the Movies” was written by Robins, not Pelish. Please
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Note-able Music Therapy Services Soothes The Soul
Music is magnificent! It soothes the soul. It tames the savage beast. It unites people of different countries and different philosophies. I don’t need to speak German to be captivated by a Beethoven symphony. I can be the smartest person in the world or have a room temperature IQ. Either way, I can be put at peace with man and God listening to an old Ella Fitzgerald recording.
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The Bolshoi Ballet In Cinemas Opens With Raymonda
The Bolshoi Ballet kicks off its 2019/20 season with their storied production of Raymonda. First performed at the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg on January 19, 1898, it was choreographed by the legendary Marius Petipa for the Russian Imperial Ballet set to the stirring music of Alexander Glazunov.
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Reno Chamber Orchestra Opens Season With Donato Cabrera Conducting
The Reno Chamber Orchestra opens its 2019/20 season Saturday, October 19th at 7:30 PM and Sunday, October 20th at 2 PM under the baton of its second candidate for permanent conductor Donato Cabrera. They will choose from the 6 finalist candidates in the Spring of 2020.
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