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Maybe she’ll tell her story: Growing up in New York, taking up the violin at age 6 and becoming wholly immersed in music. Her mother, Ruth Alsop, played cello in the New York City Ballet Orchestra. Her father, LaMar Alsop, was that orchestra’s concertmaster for 30 years, as well as a decent jazz saxophonist. Plus, he was a friend of Leonard Bernstein’s. “Lenny” — young Marin’s hero, a “rock star” — became one of her conducting teachers in the 1980s. Like her mentor, she always had one foot in the conservatory and one foot out. For years, she played violin in String Fever, a swing jazz band. One of her favorite war stories is about the night she gigged with String Fever at the Hotel Pierre in Manhattan. Between sets, she wound up running, literally, across the Brooklyn Bridge in her high heels to perform a violin solo with composer Philip Glass’ ensemble at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
Christmas in the Park has been around in one form or another since the 1950s — ballet flats rose gold it’s been at its current location in Plaza de Cesar Chavez for about three decades — and it remains some of the best retro family fun you can have during the holidays, The official opening (and tree-lighting ceremony) is Nov, 26 at 5:30 p.m., and the displays will stay up through Jan, 1, Adding to the fun and the bright lights: Winter Wonderland, the assemblage of amusement rides and attractions (including a 60-foot Ferris wheel) set up downtown, For more information, visit www.winterwonderlandsj.com..
Witnesses said the collapse was sudden and severe. “They were on their final performance, so everyone was jumping around like crazy,” Stephanie Stevenson told KABC-TV, “and then all of the sudden, the very front row just completely fell under. We were all in shock.”. The cause appeared to be too many students on stage and too much weight on the platform, Schmidt said. “We’re lucky that no one was seriously injured,” he said. “It was a quick, sudden collapse, and the students fell right away.”.
Then again, both “West Side Story” and the 1957 Broadway musical on which it is based are 20th century retellings of Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet.”, Moreno and Spielberg obviously believe a new “West Side Story” movie is warranted, “Never in my wildest dreams did I see myself revisiting this seminal work,” Moreno said in a statement to Deadline, “And to be asked by Steven Spielberg to participate is simply thrilling!”, Of course, Spielberg is no slouch in the filmmaking department or in valuing “classics” of cinema, Not only is he an Academy Award winner himself, he is considered to be one of the most visionary and acclaimed filmmakers of the past 50 years, having made four films that are on AFI’s Greatest Movies list, ballet flats rose gold and that could probably be considered untouchable: “Schindler’s List,” “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” “Jaws” and “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.”..
Rupert Everett puts himself in front of and behind the camera for “The Happy Prince,” his biopic on the last days of the witty and influential writer Oscar Wilde. Everett also wrote the screenplay. This year’s slate of documentaries continue to be impressive with four very different titles coming to theaters. PJ Ravel’s disturbing “Call Her Ganda” tells a riveting, wrenching story about a transgender woman murdered in the Philippines and the ensuing trial of the accused — an American serviceman. Don’t miss it.
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