Adrian Spence’s Camerata Pacifica, which is celebrating its 33rd season, put on a doozy of a show at the Music Academy’s Hahn Hall. Yura Lee, a member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, mesmerized on both violin and viola with her frenzied renditions of Kodály’s “Sonata for Solo Cello in B Minor,” specially […]
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Camerata Pacifica Packs a Punch
1 Nov 2022
A Cat-tacular Performance
I first saw Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cats at the New London Theatre in the 1980s, which ran for 21 years until it closed in 2002 after an amazing 8,949 performances. The show, based on a 1939 poetry collection Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats by T.S. Eliot, tells the story of one magical night when […]
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World Business Academy
To get a clear picture of what the World Business Academy does, it’s a good idea to zoom out far above the Santa Barbara nonprofit’s home base – maybe to around 30,000 feet, suggests founder and president Rinaldo Brutoco. “With the exception of Direct Relief International, which is a massive charity that’s based here, we […]
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