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February 5th, 2012
Music review: Gustavo Dudamel and multitudes tackle Mahler's 8th
Try to imagine a chorus of more than 800 singers, 125 of them children, and nearly 200 members of the combined L.A. Phil and Simón BolÃvar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela crammed together.
Try to imagine a chorus of more than 800 singers, 125 of them children, and nearly 200 members of the combined L.A. Phil and Simón BolÃvar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela crammed together.


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February 5th, 2012
Theater review: 'Elemeno Pea' at South Coast Repertory
SCR artistic director Marc Masterson makes his Southern California directorial debut with this often amusing morality tale about the compromising consequences of money's seductive power.
SCR artistic director Marc Masterson makes his Southern California directorial debut with this often amusing morality tale about the compromising consequences of money's seductive power.


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February 5th, 2012
Perspective: The divergence of 'Clybourne Park,' 'A Raisin in the Sun'
Bruce Norris' play revisits 'Raisin's' neighborhood, but the state of African Americans is unfortunately left out of the conversation.
In the program for "Clybourne Park," Bruce Norris' Pulitzer Prize-winning drama at the Mark Taper Forum, Center Theatre Group artistic director Michael Ritchie lauds the play and "A Raisin in the Sun," the 1959 classic that inspired it and is running in revival across town at the Kirk Douglas.


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February 5th, 2012
Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre prepares 'Cleopatra, CEO'
The show will be performed in a vacated corporate penthouse in the Paul Hastings Tower in downtown Los Angeles.
There's a long carpeted area on the 51st floor of the Paul Hastings Tower in downtown Los Angeles that most people would identify as a hallway. But in the eyes of Heidi Duckler, it's the site of the ancient Roman Battle of Actium.


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February 4th, 2012
Cast tops 1,000 for Mahler's 'Symphony of a Thousand' in L.A.
Just how many performers does it take to pull off Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 8, popularly and dauntingly known as the "Symphony of a Thousand"?
Just how many performers does it take to pull off Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 8, popularly and dauntingly known as the "Symphony of a Thousand"?


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