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Arts reporter and critic Rosemary Ponnekanti keeps you in touch with the arts and culture scene with the help of other News Tribune writers, critics and editors.

Rosemary Ponnekanti is the arts reporter at The News Tribune, and has been a classical music nerd nearly all her life. Besides spending way too much time in galleries, museums and concert halls, she occasionally brings a whistle or double bass to Celtic jam sessions, and insists on singing "Happy Birthday" in four-part harmony.

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What's new on the walls, stage, screen and streets of Tacoma and South Puget Sound.
Friday, November 21st, 2008
Posted by Rosemary Ponnekanti @ 06:00:00 am
Trumpeter Allen Vizzutti. Photo courtesy Tacoma Concert Band.

Trumpeter Allen Vizzutti with the Tacoma Concert Band
This top-notch concert band always delivers, and tonight they team up with world-class trumpet soloist and Doc Severinson veteran Allen Vizzutti.
7:30 p.m. tonight. $15/$10. Pantages Theater, 901 Broadway, Tacoma. 253-591-5894, www.broadwaycenter.org, www.tacomaconcertband.org

Art Slam: 430 slides in two hours
All those artists and galleries you haven’t had time to catch up on? See them all in one long evening at the Art at Work month Art Slam. Forty-three local artists get 5 seconds per slide (max. 10 slides) and there’ll be music, dance and spoken word also. 7 p.m. tonight. Free. Rialto Theater, 310 S. 9th St., Tacoma. 253-591-5191, www.tacomaculture.org

Northwest Sinfonietta does the Impressionists
How does paella and wine followed by Debussy, Ravel and de Falla sound? Like tomorrow’s Northwest Sinfonietta concert, with dinner beforehand at the Tacoma Club. 7:30 p.m. Nov. 22. Dinner plus concert $48, concert only $28-$50. Rialto Theater, 310 S. 9th St., Tacoma. 253-591-5894, www.broadwaycenter.org, www.orchestraexperience.com

Choral Union
The Pacific Lutheran University-based choir sings Kodaly (((nb acute on a))), Howells, Peeters and Janacek (((acute on a, circonflex on c))) in the acoustically-brilliant Lagerquist Hall. 3 p.m. Nov. 23. $15 general/$10 seniors, students/$5 alumni and PLU students. Lagerquist Hall, Mary Baker Russell Music Building, 12180 Park Ave. S., Tacoma. 253-535-7787, www.pluchoralunion.org

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