That Wacky B flat!

National Public Radio (NPR) ran a story about B flat recently which included alligators, a piano tuner, and black holes. Take a look and listen at http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7442915. Do you have B flat stories of your own? Let us know!

It's not the Same Without You!

PAI 2006

Winter 2007

What do Winnipeg, Costa Rica, Kentucky, Edmonton, Salzburg and Vancouver have in Common? Cynthia Johnston Turner!

PAI Wind Ensemble conductor Cynthia Johnston Turner is having a busy year. She just returned from Costa Rica, where she reheared and conducted the American Schools of Central America Honor Band and Choir, and from Winnipeg, where she adjudicated and gave clinics to more than 95 bands! The difference in temperature? Minus 37 degrees in Winnipeg, and over 80 degrees in Costa Rica. She is on her way to Kentucky to conduct their Quad-State Honor Band. Two weeks later she's off to Edmonton to do the Alberta Festival of Bands. May finds her in Salzburg, Austria to conduct the Austrian Festival Orchestra, then to Vancouver to judge the Canadian National Music Festival.

We're glad she's carved out a chunk of time this summer to return to PAI!

Happy Trails!

White Cello Case Spotted in Texas!

When Bo Zhang (PAI '06) traveled from Beijing, China to the Dallas/Fort Worth Airport in January to attend Texas Christian University he was worried. He didn't quite know what to expect. When he left the terminal, the friendly faces of Dr. San-ky Kim (PAI voice faculty) and Irina Schuck (PAI violin faculty) were there to greet him and erased his fears. Bo is settling in nicely in Texas and says the homesickness is fading. He's working hard on his English and his cello. One of the great benefits of PAI is the network of friends and colleagues we build. We are grateful and rely on those ties in times like these!

Roudebush Corrals Cleveland! "Equus" Opens to Impressive Reviews!

PAI Music Theater director, William Roudebush, directs the Beck Center for the Arts production of Equus through February 25, 2007.
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‘EQUUS’ AT BECK IS A BRILLIANT AND COMPELLING MUST SEE!Roy Berko,(Member, American Theatre Critics Association)

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Equus at the Beck is an outstanding production. Everything has come together: sight and sound, story and presentation, acting and direction fuse together into a powerful whole where gifted people produce an experience that will stay with you.-From Cool Cleveland contributor Marcus Bales

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"Equus" does everything a play is supposed to do, it reexamines the art form, raises hard questions, and tells a compelling, if not tragic, story.
-Shane Gleason, The Cauldron, Monday, February 5, 2007
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"Miss 'Equus,' and you’ll miss out on one of the most awesome productions ever presented on a Cleveland stage."-Fran Heller, Contributing Writer, Cleveland Jewish News
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"Peter Shaffer’s "Equus" should be seen by packed houses every night of its run at Lakewood’s Beck Center for the Arts. And not just because this is a brilliant and beautiful and riveting production, but because it is the kind of theater experience that is enhanced by being shared. "
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"This is a magnificent play. Roudebush calls Shaffer’s drama "one of the great plays of the 20th century." His inventiveness and that of his actors in bringing this show to life is sure to repay audiences who, however it affects them, will not forget it. "
-Mark Moran, Lakewood Observer
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Equus runs through February 25. more information