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147 • January 4, 2007 |
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Musically Inclined
Start off the new year with holiday spectaculars! Enter to win tickets to Slava's Snowshow and FEED and head to Hollywood for the Chinese New Year Spectacular. For the musically inclined, have some wine before catching an open rehearsal of a Grammy Award-winning ensemble, and check out the sounds of Northeast Brazil, compositions with Persian influences, and even a vaudevillian musical set in the Wild West.
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Chinese New Year Spectacular
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 On January 9th and 10th, NTDTV brings the divine beauty of the ancient East to life with this show!This year the Spectacular bursts onto the Kodak Theatre stage with all-new performances and the thrill of a full, live orchestra! From the soulful poignancy of the two-stringed erhu to the stirring rhythms of a Mongolian plains dance, the 2007 Chinese New Year Spectacular is a show truly not to be missed!
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 Join two-time Grammy®-winning conductor Jeff von der Schmidt, host for Blendings: Wine & Music, in an open rehearsal of music of Takemitsu and Debussy on January 19th. Start at 7pm with a captivating tasting of the sake and French wines and hors d’oeuvres, then take your seat in the Armory Center Art Gallery for a unique behind-the-scenes open rehearsal and discussion with our Grammy Award-winning ensemble.
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Special Announcement: Last Minute Giveaway for
Slava's Snowshow
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 UCLA Live offers you the chance to win a pair of tickets to the final performance of Slava’s Snowshow, a holiday spectacular for the child in all of us!
One of the world’s busiest clowns and a beloved celebrity in his native Russia, Slava Polunin transports audiences into a magical world of falling snow, fog and bubbles in his tragicomic spectacle. This lyrically beautiful, Olivier Award-winning theatrical experience melds the unbridled hilarity and unexpected poignancy of clowning with awe-inspiring imagery, whimsical music, and amusement park thrills.
Tickets are valid for January 7, 2007 at 7:00pm.
This special promotion ends today!
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Ticket Giveaway: Win Tickets to FEED!
 The NoHo Arts Center offers you the chance to win tickets to FEED, a world premiere play by Jim Lunsford. Developed by the Open At The Top Theatre Company, FEED is the story of one woman’s struggle for her rights in an unjust future society.
Preview performances run from January 18th - 21st.
FEED officially opens January 26, 2007 and will run until March 11, 2007.
Tickets are valid for any performance excluding opening night.
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Did You Know?
Spider silk, fiber formed in the abdomens of spiders, is extremely strong. Its tensile strength is comparable to high-grade steel (by diameter), and weight-for-weight, it is much stronger than steel.
-zoo.org
See how fiber can be used as an art form in the exhibit Framed Fibers: A Study in Abstraction opening January 13th.
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Themed
Picks: Musically Inclined |
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Rob Curto's Forró for All
January 11th
8:00pm
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At the Skirball Cultural Center Forró for All performs the sounds of Northeast Brazil known as forró pé de serra and brings to life the exuberant spirit of this distinct genre of dance music. Composer Rob Curto plays the accordion, the featured instrument of forró, and is accompanied by percussion and guitars. |
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Sufi Music of Iran
January 12th
8:00pm - 10:00pm
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Internationally acclaimed Lian Ensemble brings a superb program at St. Matthews Church that will feature new compositions and improvisations drawing on the rich heritage of Persian classical and mystical music, as well as contemporary and ancient Sufi poetry. |
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The Root Beer Bandits
Opens January 20th |
The Root Beer Bandits tells the story of Polly Peppercorn, the only girl to ever ride for the Pony Express! Laughs are sure to be a-plenty in this high-paced vaudevillian show at the Falcon Theatre including a chase, a Ho’Down, a sing-off at high noon, and a surprise ending! |
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