East Meets West

Seong-Jin Cho with the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra - CAMA Santa Barbara 11/7/16 Granada Theatre

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The Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra and Korean pianist Seong-Jin Cho came together at the Granada Theatre for a sold-out CAMA show of Brahms, Chopin and Weinberg. Music Director and conductor Jacek Kapszyk got things off to a fine start with Brahms’s Tragic Overture in D minor, and the turbulence and torment of the piece were…

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That Voice! Those Songs!

Joan Baez 75th Birthday Celebration concert - UCSB Arts & Lectures 11/3/16 Arlington Theatre

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Joan Baez celebrated her 75th birthday year by giving us a new album and in Santa Barbara last week a wonderful concert of the songs from the album. Her birthday, but we got the presents! She arrived on the stage of the Arlington Theatre proudly showing off a “Nasty Woman” tee, to the…

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Seville Disobedience Pt 2

Leann Sandel-Pantaleo as Carmen and Harold Meers as Don José - Opera Santa Barbara 11/2/16 Granada Theatre

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Bizet’s Carmen is one of the most performed and beloved operas and it has timeless resonance. The story of a woman who does exactly what she wants with her life, but has to pay the ultimate price in the end, losing her life because a man can’t take being rejected. The title character is sexually liberated, reveling in…

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