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Dmitri Shostakovitch’s Piano Trio in E Minor was written in 1944 after news of the Holocaust reached the USSR, which had a profound effect on the composer. The piece is a lamentation for the victims of that tragedy, and for the death of a close friend. Shostakovitch employed scales and…
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Shakespeare’s “King Lear” has got the three m’s in spades–murder, mayhem and madness–but I’d forgotten how many truly despicable characters populate this searing tragedy. Perhaps it’s because the ending is so moving that it pushes aside all the preceding awful behavior in the old memory banks. Sure, I remembered the…
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Will it tell a story or be more like a music album with different numbers, perhaps bound by a theme? All the pieces are worked out and now Kate and Esteban are turning their attention to putting them together to make an evening’s entertainment. Some of the elements fulfill the dream of…
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Samarkand, which translates from Persian to “hearts desire,” is one of the oldest cities in central Asia and was an important stop along the Silk Road. Its namesake in Santa Barbara has a long and storied history going from a cattle ranch to a posh boys’ school to a luxury resort named the…
