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LSO presents SOUND! Chamber Concert
Lubbock Symphony Orchestra presents its Spring SOUND! Chamber Concert at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Buddy Holly Hall, 1300 Mac Davis Lane. Doors open at 6:30pm
The popular SOUND! series broadens the horizons of chamber music and pushes the boundaries of audience experience. Light, sound and color collide for an evening of artistry that is sure to astound. The performance includes
• Kenji Bunch: Until Next Time
• Kenji Bunch: Lowdown
• Barbara York: Moral Dilemmas – Movements II and IV
• Blake Tyson: :The Trees are Quiet
• Scott Joplin: :Maple Leaf Rag
• Scott Joplin: The Chrysanthemum
Counterpoint: 304 pages, $26
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For a crime writer, a sense of place means as much as clean prose and a morally tormented hero. So a lot of what makes Tod Goldberg’s lively, often entertainingly snarky story collection “The Low Desert” so cohesive is its preferred destination for murder and despair: West Coast exurbia.
“The Royal Californian” takes place in a stretch of Indio that “could have been Carson City or Bakersfield or Van Nuys or anywhere else where someone had the wise idea to plant a palm tree and then surround it with cement.” The penultimate story, “Ragtown,” concludes in a “rut of desert” outside Las Vegas. A handful of stories are set by the Salton Sea, a shriveling resort area ravaged by military tests, climate change and corporate exploitation. “The middle of someone else’s mistakes,” as one character puts it.
Review: Forget Chinatown, Jake: Todd Golberg's 'The Low Desert' finds noir in L.A.'s far outskirts msn.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from msn.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.