Pelish’s Gold Mine—Nuggets from Film History The Ox-Bow Incident
By Randy Pelish Director William Wellman routinely made great films. Beginning in the silent era his Wings won the first
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The Metropolitan Opera’s Live in HD Series – First 2020 Performance – WOZZECK, January 11 at 9:55 am
We begin the new year with Alban Berg’s brutal 20th century tragedy, Wozzeck. The libretto, by Berg himself, is based
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Note-Able Music Therapy Services performed at Sierra Arts.
Last Tuesday the Note-Able Music Therapy Services performed at Sierra Arts.Here is a video that will tell you more about this wonderful music
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Special Met in HD Encore Presentation – The Magic Flute in Local Theatres Dec. 7, 2019; 12:55 p.m.
Lynne Gray, Ph.D. If you have been looking for the right opportunity to introduce your kids, or your grandkids, to
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Maestro Majkut talks to Norm Robins (Video)
The Reno Chamber Orchestra’s third finalist for Music Director is Maestro Martin Majkut talks to Norm Robins about the history of Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia) and growing up in a country going through turbulent times. The Maestro also tells us of what we will be hearing this weekend as he takes the baton for The Reno Chamber Orchestra.
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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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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 Met In HD Performs Massenet’s Ever Popular Manon Saturday, October 26th
For its second live in HD transmission of the 2019-20 season, the Met has chosen Jules Massenet’s wonderfully melodic, Manon – a deliciously French take on the tragic story of Manon Lescaut (also made into a deliciously Italian opera by Puccini – but that’s another story!). A teenage girl from the country – far too pretty for her own good – is sent alone to the outskirts of Paris to be met by her cousin and escorted to a convent. Her non-too vigilant, and non-too-upstanding, cousin allows her to catch a glimpse of the decidedly un-convent-like life of actresses who are enjoying the company of wealthy “patrons”–and the rest, as we say, is history.
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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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