Tag: Minnesota
'Dorothy's Stolen Ruby Slippers from 'The Wizard of Oz' Now Found, Returns Home After Nineteen-Year Absence
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'NorShor Theatre, Historic Duluth Landmark, To Receive Renovation
NorShor Theatre, historic entertainment venue of Bob Dylan's birthplace, Duluth, Minnesota, is due to receive major renovations. The city of Duluth plans to relaunch the vaudeville-era auditorium exclusively as a community theater and performing arts center. -
'Minnesota Orchestra Launches Career of Young Composers
Seven young composers got the opportunity of a lifetime this week, when the Minnesota Orchestra performed their work as part of its Composer Institute. According to the Institute's Director, Kevin Puts, emerging talents run into the catch-22 of not getting a chance to write for an orchestra until they have already proven themselves capable of doing so, but now at least 7 out of 150 applicants will be able to potentially launch their careers thanks to Minnesota Orchestra's Composer Institute. For New York fans of the orchestra, Music Director Osmo Vänskä will be leading the group in all-Sibelius program at Carnegie Hall -- their first concert there in five-years.