| At 30, Symphony Space Is in Fine Form
And when the curtain call came, they all returned to the stage. The staff's pride in the institution was evident at intermission, when a dozen employees walked up and down the aisles passing out glasses of Champagne to members of the audience more than 900 people. The co-founders of Symphony Space, Isaiah Sheffer and Allan Miller, then led a triumphant toast, acknowledging its executive director, Cynthia Elliott, and lifers on the staff, such as the education director, Madeline Cohen. The audience roared and clapped all evening. The "Selected Shorts," in which actors read short stories, were some of the best in the show. It's no wonder this series has become a nationally distributed public radio show. Roy Blount Jr. told of the wardrobe he once chose for hosting a "Selected Shorts" evening six different pairs of shorts.
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Eric Padilla stands in front of the mural titled Face that he painted on the wall of Studio 121, a photography studio in Loveland. An aspiring artist, Eric paints and is enrolled in video and multimedia classes at Aims Community College. After attending two area high schools and flirting with gangs and other trouble, Padilla received his diploma from Aims and is now working to get his bachelors degree.
ERIC BELLAMY / ebellamy@greeleytribune.com
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With her comic Minnie Pearl bits, her fancy footwork and her 50,000-watt smile, it's easy to overlook how much music Linsey makes as part of this old-time country music variety show. Pianist Mel Aucoin, a regular with the Becketts in recent years, has more than four decades in the music business behind him, including a lengthy stint on the old Tommy Hunter show. He grew up in the thick of Cape Breton fiddle culture and has high praise for Tyler and Linsey and their place within the Ontario fiddle music continuum. "I'm out of breath when I'm watching those two," Aucoin said after Monday's first show. "They're as fine a fiddlers as you'll hear, wherever you go. They're as good as you're going to get. It doesn't get any better." Sometimes we forget that around these parts, where as Sun Times columnist Jim Merriam once wrote, "the first family of fiddling" is a Grey-Bruce treasure we tend to take for granted.
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