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You can't keep this week's hounds down as they dig up beautiful Soviet-era orchestral music, some female mid-life crisis theater, and some hard and heavy rock that will please and pound your ears.

 is a household name for Russian native and pianist Denis Evstuhin, but not for his fellow Minnesotans. Denis wants people here to discover the splendor and complexity of Dunayevsky's music. He's recommending a full symphonic concert devoted to Dunayevsky that's being 

organized and directed by Twin Cities conductor 

 at Hamline University's Sundin Music Hall, Sunday, Jan. 20th, at 4 and 7pm.





Twin Cities director and stage manager Laura Bidgood was surprised to find that a character who gives up all the great things in her world to pursue a self-destructive mid-life crisis can still engender sympathy, compassion and belly laughs. But that's who she discovered in the play 

 at Lyric Arts in Anoka through Jan. 27.





Loud...fast...hard and synthesizer-free is the way local musician Johan Engevik generally prefers his musical entertainment. Johan expects to get an earful of quality Minneapolis rock at the Triple Rock Social Club on Thursday, Jan. 17th, with 

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You can't keep this week's hounds down as they dig up beautiful Soviet-era orchestral music, some female mid-life crisis theater, and some hard and heavy rock that will please and pound your ears.


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