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Five questions with Sharon Isbin, the ‘high priestess of the guitar,’ ahead of her Des Moines concerts

Sharon Isbin has been called “the pre-eminent guitarist of our time,” “finer even then Segovia,” and “the high priestess of the guitar” by news outlets across the world. The Minnesota native has received four Grammy nominations and two wins and […]

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Andrea Brook “turns the Civic Center into an instrument” this weekend

Installation artist and musician Andrea Brook has never been to Iowa before. But as she stands on top of the Civic Center with a 360-view of night-time Des Moines to install her traveling show, Sonic Butterfly, she says that she […]

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‘My Fair Lady,’ a problematic classic with amazing production, comes to Des Moines

My Fair Lady, presented by Lincoln Center Theater, opened at the Civic Center in Des Moines Tuesday night and almost every row was filled. The musical is an adaptation on George Bernard Shaw’s 1913 play Pygmalion, involving a professor of […]

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Ballet Des Moines tackles hard science with light movement in one-night-only show ‘Of Gravity and Light’

Ballet Des Moines is giving audiences a science lesson through their one-night-only production Of Gravity and Light, Friday at the Des Moines Civic Center. Of Gravity and Light is a contemporary ballet production using science-inspired movement to depict gravity, push-pull […]

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