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Another wrong move is having all the minor characters move around so much. It tends to take focus off the lead actors as they relate to each other. Of course, no production of “My Fair Lady” can stand up to scrutiny without a solid orchestra to produce those fabulous Lerner and Lowe tunes. Conductor Kristin Pfeifer and her 17-member pit requite themselves beautifully and, though all of the score is played enthusiastically, the music never interferes with the ability of the audience to actually hear the lyrics being sung onstage. Bravo.

Before intermission, Kuok-Wai Lio was the soloist for Mozart’s Piano Concerto No, 20 in D minor, The pianist, a native of Macau and a 2013 Avery Fisher Career Grant recipient, is a performer of crisp articulation and youthful exuberance, ballet flats kopen and he made a fluent traversal of Mozart’s atmospheric score, His tone was attractive and his playing assured — deft, even headstrong, in the mercurial outer movements, and expressive in the central Romance, Cabrera and his soloist found themselves out of sync at one point during the slow passage work, but for the most part, the impression created was aptly serene, Throughout the performance, Cabrera coaxed delicately shaded sound from the orchestra..

Sure, there were some brief, flickering moments of greatness, such as when St. Vincent appeared below a single spotlight onstage and opened the show with a dramatic solo version of the title track of her first album, 2007’s “Marry Me.”. From there, she strapped on a guitar and proceeded to rock and roll through two sets of music, the first of which was dedicated to tracks from her first four albums. The complex electro-rock of “Now, Now” lit up the building, only to give way to the rippling guitar work of “Cruel” and then the steely cool “Cheerleader.”.

Native Horticultural Symposium: Learn how to conserve irrigation water and create a beautiful landscape at the same time at “Saving Water, Creating Beauty with California Native Plants,” September 20, 9 a.m.-5 p.m, Foothill College, 12345 El Monte Road, Los Altos Hills, $55-$90, To register ballet flats kopen and for more information, visit cnps-scv.org or call 408-828-6467, Midpeninsula Widow and Widower Association: Meets Tuesdays, 7:30 p.m, Los Altos Lutheran Church, 460 S, El Monte, Los Altos, 408-246-4642..

Silicon Valley Reads Kickoff: A conversation with authors Sumbul Ali-Karamali and G. Willow Wilson and Mercury News columnist Mike Cassidy. The event kicks off several months of readings and activities centered around the books The Muslim Next Door by Ali-Karamali and The Butterfly Mosque by Wilson. Co-sponsored by Commonwealth Club Silicon Valley. Book signing follows program. Jan. 25, doors open 6:45 p.m. First come, first seated. Program begins at 7:30 p.m.Heritage Theatre, 1 W. Campbell Ave., Campbell. http://siliconvalleyreads.org/2012-13.