Donald Munro



Great pianists, great plays and a tormentor of Annie Notes from the performing-arts beat:

Piano man: Have you given thanks lately, classical-music fans, for the Philip Lorenz Memorial Keyboard Concerts series? Sometimes it gets overlooked in the rush for media attention when compared to such cultural heavyweights as the Fresno Philharmonic and Fresno Grand Opera.

By Donald Munro/The Fresno Bee
05:46:27 PM Thursday, May 1, 2008

What a tangled 'Idol' we weaveWelcome to "Behind the Scenes at 'American Idol,' " where we managed to smuggle in a bee, position him on the wall and outfit him with a teensy video camera. There, he recorded the conversation at breakfast the morning after the egregiously mediocre Brooke White managed to survive for another week of competition. Let's pick up the thread:
05:31:14 PM Thursday, Apr 17, 2008

Traveling by bus means plenty of 'Cats' napsThis and that from the performing arts beat:
06:57:14 PM Thursday, Apr 3, 2008

Bands keep marching onIf Dr. Seuss had designed a flag for a marching band, it would have looked like this: stunted, yellow, bent at a peculiar angle.
05:50:32 PM Thursday, Mar 27, 2008

Flowers offer true beauty in a world of uglyOne of my favorite moments in "Jerry Springer: The Opera," a very funny and very offensive stage musical, comes in a scene from Jerry's television show in which he asks if a foul-mouthed guest named Chucky has any "guilty secrets." Chucky already has been pegged as a trashy husband who frequents strip clubs, thinks all women are prostitutes and verbally abuses his wife. (And we're about to find out that he's a member of the Ku Klux Klan.)
05:12:42 PM Thursday, Mar 20, 2008



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