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The Symphony hadn’t performed the work since 1994, and Tilson Thomas returned to it Thursday with sensitivity and a secure rhythmic profile. Baritone Thomas Hampson was an ideal soloist, singing with oaken tone and precise phrasing while conferring dignity and restraint on Whitman’s text. The trumpet solos were capably handled by Mark Inouye and Mark Grisez (the latter on piccolo trumpet, stationed on an upper tier.) Concertmaster Alexander Barantschik contributed the acerbic violin part.

He’s one of 13 composers in residence this summer at the festival, where his latest opus — a 35-minute Saxophone Concerto, densely motor-driven and jazz-inspired without posing as “jazzy”– will be performed Aug, 9 by soloist Timothy McAllister and the festival orchestra, led by Alsop, It is Adams’ 18th work to be performed at Cabrillo — where he once was music director, in 1991 — and he recently has shown his gratitude by joining with the festival to commission new works by composers one-third his age, It’s “to keep the energy going,” he explains, and to nurture a ballet slippers diy new generation of composers who actually believe, as he does, that music can change listeners’ lives..

These weekender students study such things as beginning, intermediate and advance dance, theatre skills, songs of Victorian times, wig making, theatrical makeup, the essentials of the Cockney vernacular or for those non commoners, gentry elocution, and for others, it is extensive cramming on “dressing down for the true scum look.” All this required study enables these thespian scholars, volunteers all, to perform on-the-street/and stage of the immediately upcoming 35th Annual Great Dickens Christmas Fair & Victorian Holiday Party — which takes place on five weekends beginning on November 23 and ending at 7 p.m., the evening of December 22.

OAKLAND — Longtime Oakland firefighter Darin White was named fire chief Thursday, the city’s second choice after a Los Angeles candidate turned down the ballet slippers diy job over a contract dispute, White, who has spent 20 of his 30-year career in Oakland, will lead a beleaguered department recovering from the Ghost Ship blaze, the deadliest structure fire in modern California history that uncovered failures to properly inspect commercial and multi-unit residential buildings, The Oakland native most recently served as interim chief, after Teresa Deloach Reed went on leave and later retired in the wake of the Dec, 2 warehouse fire that killed 36 people attending a dance party..

But not all of these flappers were white and wealthy: African-American Josephine Baker grew up dirt poor in St. Louis before her mother arranged her marriage, at age 12, to a man twice her age in order to circumvent her burgeoning sexuality. Baker would flee that husband and marry another at 15, but the men were just a means to an escape, the stage and freedom. Baker, however, was no ordinary showgirl: Even when performing the role of a black stereotype, she inflected it with a complexity that made her, in one producer’s words, “stand out like an exclamation point.” But it wasn’t until she went to France that Baker truly made her name and experienced what it meant to not only be venerated, but (relatively) free from prejudice based on the color of her skin.

 
 
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