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Author: Pete Carey

FROM DARKEST TIMES TO BRIGHT LIGHTS

FROM DARKEST TIMES TO BRIGHT LIGHTS

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA—Explosions! Horror! Melodrama! Not your average story of a girl learning to play the piano, but there’s all this and more in “The Pianist of Willesden Lane,” a compelling work now showing at the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts in a four-week production by TheatreWorks Silicon Valley. It all comes from one woman, a stage and a concert grand piano. “Pianist” features the multi-talented Mona Golabek telling the riveting, heart-warming story of her mother’s struggle to…

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BEETHOVEN’S LIFE, AT PIANO OR NARRATED, IS A PENINSULA SUCCESS STORY

BEETHOVEN’S LIFE, AT PIANO OR NARRATED, IS A PENINSULA SUCCESS STORY

The versatile pianist-actor Hershey Felder, who won praise for his performances as Leonard Bernstein and George Gershwin and other musical giants, has moved into deeper waters with his hugely successful account of the composer Ludwig van Beethoven, now in an extended run at the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts. Felder is a remarkable performer – a fine musician whose pianism elevates this bit of theater to a lofty plane as he entertains us with his impersonations of the…

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