Welcome!

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A tradition for (most of) the DANCEworks Santa Barbara residencies has been a Welcome the Dancers Party and this year’s took place in the beautiful setting of Barbara Stupay’s Montecito home. It’s a chance for donors and supporters to get to know the artists who are creating the next new work…

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Shakespeare’s Famous Feud

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The deadly animosity between the Montagues and Capulets may have begun as a dispute over land grabs as the heads of the two families competed to stake out more and more property. Seems plausible, but Shakespeare didn’t elect to include any backstory. He was more interested in young lovers being…

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70 and 25

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April 7th & 8th the Santa Barbara Choral Society celebrated its 70th anniversary and JoAnne Wasserman’s 25th year as Artistic Director and Conductor. The reverberant First Presbyterian Church was filled with glorious music, beginning with Hayden’s “Missa in Angustilis: Mass for Troubled Times.” Composed in response to the Napoleonic wars,…

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