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  • 3 days ago | startribune.com | Rob Hubbard

    By Rob Hubbard Minneapolis native Evren Ozel has advanced to the finals of North America's most prestigious classical piano competition, the quadrennial Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. From a field that started with 28 pianists ages 18 to 30 from 16 countries, Ozel has reached the final six, thanks to impressive performances during three recitals and a Saturday night performance of a Mozart Piano Concerto with the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra.

  • 4 days ago | twincities.com | Rob Hubbard

    Fifty years ago, Hmong people first arrived in Minnesota as refugees from the wars of Southeast Asia. In their Laotian homeland, they were earmarked for destruction for having aided the U.S. side in the Vietnam War, and Minnesota became one of two states to help resettle the vast majority of those who escaped, California being the other.

  • 6 days ago | startribune.com | Rob Hubbard

    Classical concert lore is full of great pinch-hitting stories. For example, stardom found a young Leonard Bernstein when he stepped in for conductor Bruno Walter on short notice, and teenage pianist André Watts made his name subbing for another ailing legend, Glenn Gould. While what happened on Friday night at Minneapolis' Orchestra Hall didn't reach that level of career breakthrough, it was pretty thrilling nonetheless.

  • 1 week ago | startribune.com | Rob Hubbard

    By Rob Hubbard Piano soloist Alice Sara Ott will be unable to perform with the Minnesota Orchestra Friday and Saturday because she has acute tendinitis. Audiences instead will hear Beethoven's Fourth Concerto with pianist Conrad Tao as soloist. When Tao last visited, his performance of concertos by Mozart and C.P.E. Bach was named one of the Twin Cities' 10 best classical concerts of 2022.

  • 2 weeks ago | twincities.com | Rob Hubbard

    Stephen Adly Guirgis is a New York City playwright who brings the world stories from the streets, where the conversations can sound astonishingly life-like and not for the squeamish. And his gift for creating complex and thoroughly human characters can be an actor’s dream.

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