Voltage and Song

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Electricity was in the air as Johnny Irion took the stage for the latest installment of the Lobero Theatre Live! – American Roots Music series. Irion’s musical outings sans wife Sarah Lee Guthrie have ranged from rock with U.S. Elevator (heard from this stage not too long ago) to a…

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Time to Move Out

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Lit Moon Theatre Company’s latest production, Ibsen’s “A Doll’s House,” couldn’t be more timely given the current raised awareness and desire (by some) to address the injustices and inequality faced by women around the world. Ibsen’s play was controversial, dealing as it does with a wife, who in the latter…

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Vivaldi, Barber and Rimsky-Korsakov

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Santa Barbara Symphony’s final concert of the 2017-18 season travelled through time from Vivaldi’s 1711 Concerto for 2 Violins in A minor to 1939 and Samuel Barber’s Violin Concerto, then circled back a bit to 1888 for Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Sheherazade.” SBSO Concertmaster Jessica Guideri  and guest soloist Anne Akiko Meyers gave…

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Way Beyond Canada

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Armenian-Canadian soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian is eclectic. Not only a world class opera singer with a very beautiful voice, she has been a featured vocalist for 2 big movie soundtracks (“Lord of The Rings” trilogy: The Two Towers” and Atom Egoyen’s “Ararat”), is a concert artist with orchestras and in recital,…

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