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Conducting a Tour Through the Santa Barbara Symphonic Season (opens the original)
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As has become a tradition, the Santa Barbara Symphony gave the community a free, brief, and thorough tour through what’s to come in its 2026-27 season. Officially, the season opens its round of monthly concerts at the Granada Theatre on October 24 and 25 (Saturday night and Sunday afternoon, a traditional pairing), with the crowd-pleasing Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto, No. 2, and Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony, continuing through seven main concerts and a handful of ancillary programs and appeara
Music Academy’s Mariposa Games Begin (opens the original)
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Once upon a time — for many decades, in fact — the Music Academy of the West (MAW) was strictly a summertime enticement for classical music lovers in town. Its dense summertime schedule remains the centerpiece and heart of this internationally respected and almost 80-year-old institution, but its tentacles have been spreading into the off season in recent years. Welcome to MAW’s Mariposa concert series, a handful of concerts throughout the year, spotlighting illustrious alums from the Music Acad
Punched-Up “Brotherly” Love, Reignited (opens the original)
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Chris Thile, the mandolin master and maverick (pardon the alliteration) is no stranger in these parts, and he’s becoming less strange by the season. We first heard him in the modern bluegrass group Nickel Creek — which would, years later, record its album Celebrants after a stint living and waiting out the COVID lockdown in a Montecito homestead. After relocating to the wilds of Brooklyn, Thile has brought his stellar prog bluegrass Punch Brothers to Campbell Hall, wowing all ears in sight. But
John Waters, ‘Pope of Trash,’ Preaches to the Converted (opens the original)
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Fans of little-known factoids may be pleased to learn this tidbit: John Waters discovered his signature “pencil moustache” in Santa Barbara. The famous and infamous director of the indie film smash Pink Flamingos, the box office boffo Hairspray, Polyester, and many other left-of-mainstream films, was briefly living in Isla Vista when the “aha moment” arrived. On the phone from his hometown of Baltimore, Waters explained the origin of the ‘stache: “I did it for the first time in [former Santa Bar
Ecstasy Wisdom, and Funk, ‘70s to the Future (opens the original)
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Warning: The following review may contain a deficit of objectivity. Some artists are so beloved by a listener or critic that unconditional love may blur the usual process of a clear and balanced view of an event. Fanzine-esque expressions of love may result. And so it goes with Earth Wind & Fire (EWF), certainly on this music addict’s top 10 list of bands, R&B-wise or otherwise. Revisiting the EWF songbook, after several years away from it, is like running into an old friend, one who is incurabl
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