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Salome Zourabichvili says October 2024's parliamentary contest that saw a pro-Russia party win most of the seats was rigged by Moscow. She says she is the legitimate leader of the people of Georgia.

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Tianyi Lu, conductor Paul Lewis, piano San Diego Symphony Orchestra Gareth Farr "The Invocation of the Sea" from From the Depths Sound the Great Sea Gongs Grieg: Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 16 Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36 Winner of the Sir Georg Solti International Conductors' Competition, conductor Tianyi Lu opens her concert with the self-standing first movement of Gareth Farr’s From the Depths Sound the Great Sea Gongs. Farr is one of New Zealand’s leading composers and a distinguished percussionist whose music pulsates with exultant rhythms and colors reflecting his love of the landscapes and surrounding oceans of his native islands, as well as his fascination with his country’s Māori musical and mythic traditions which go back hundreds of years before the arrival of Europeans. At the opposite end of the world, Norway’s greatest composer Edvard Grieg made his name when still a very young man with his brilliant and loveable Piano Concerto, still perhaps the composer’s most popular work and one of the most familiar piano concertos in world repertoire. The distinguished soloist will be the English pianist Paul Lewis. And the concert ends with one of the best loved of all Tchaikovsky’s works, his intensely dramatic Fourth Symphony, written at one of the most productive periods in the composer’s life, the time of his ballet Swan Lake and his opera Eugene Onegin. Operatic and balletic this symphony certainly is, with its fateful horn calls and its yearning melodies, and its infectious dance rhythms and sheer physical élan. For Jacobs Masterworks concerts, only children ages five years and older will be allowed into the concert hall. These children must have a ticket and be able to sit in an un-accompanied seat. Visit: https://www.sandiegosymphony.org/performances/from-the-depths-liu-leads-tchaikovskys-4th-symphony/ San Diego Symphony on Instagram and Facebook

San Diego’s favorite St. Patrick’s Day block party is back! The 29th Annual ShamROCK Music + Beer Festival transforms the Gaslamp Quarter into a sea of green on Saturday, March 15, 2025, from 2 p.m. to 10 p.m., with multiple stages of live music, Irish fare, and endless revelry. This beloved celebration transforms the Gaslamp Quarter into the Emerald Isle of the West Coast, featuring a full lineup of top Irish and Celtic rock bands, iconic tribute performances, Irish dancers galore, and all the lucky libations and shenanigans you can handle! New for this year, the festival introduces ShamROCK After Dark from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m., dimming the lights and cranking up the beats for nighttime merriment unlike ever before. Beyond the revelry, ShamROCK—proudly carrying its legacy as San Diego’s longest-running Irish festival—supports the Gaslamp Quarter Historical Foundation (GQHF), a non-profit dedicated to preserving the architectural and cultural heritage of the Gaslamp Quarter. For tickets, lineup details, and more information, visit www.SanDiegoShamROCK.com. San Diego Shamrock on Facebook / Instagram

Since 2017, Nathan Agin has produced and hosted "The Working Actor’s Journey", a podcast and workshop series that serves as a forum for professional actors to discuss their craft, dig into the text, and to impart insights for the benefit of others. The WAJ offers 30+ long-form interviews and 8 month-long workshops available for free (with more ongoing and others to be released from the archive); the podcast has 50K downloads from over 25 countries. For this online conversational session, Nathan will share what he has observed and learned specifically about acting Shakespeare. Visit: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/acting-shakespeare-lessons-learned-tickets-1229472468249?aff=oddtdtcreator San Diego Shakespeare Society on Instagram and Facebook

Kirk's death has forced his legions of young conservative followers to confront the question of how to sustain the movement that he built.

Considered one of the finest pianists of today, Jean-Yves Thibaudet takes the Jacobs Music Center stage to perform his acclaimed interpretation of Camille Saint-Saëns' final piano concerto, written while he was vacationing in Cairo, Egypt. Then Rafael Payare and the Symphony tackle Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 7, "Leningrad." The first performance of the Leningrad took place in August 1942, a year into the 30-month blockade of the city by Axis powers, and was broadcast throughout the city as a show of defiance against German forces. Since then, the symphony has become a powerful international symbol of human resistance to brutality, barbarism and injustice. Visit: https://www.sandiegosymphony.org/performances/elegant-to-epic-saint-sa%C3%ABns-and-shostakovich/ San Diego Symphony on Instagram and Facebook

Tristan Rais-Sherman, conductor San Diego Symphony Orchestra Lili Boulanger: "D’un matin de printemps" (Of a Spring Morning) De Falla: "The Three-Cornered Hat Suite No. 1" Ravel: "Rigaudon" from Le Tombeau de Couperin" Caroline Shaw: "The Mountain that Loved a Bird" Celebrate springtime and transport yourself into a timeless story about friendship in composer and Pulitzer Prize winner Caroline Shaw’s musical adaptation of "The Mountain that Loved a Bird" by Alice McLerran. This concert is designed for families with children ages 6 – 12. Please join us one hour before the performance for pre-concert activities in the lobby. Visit: https://www.sandiegosymphony.org/performances/the-mountain-that-loved-a-bird/ Caroline Shaw on Instagram

ACLU lawyers and other advocates had raised questions about whether the transfer of a man with a 21-year-old assault conviction into Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody violated the state’s sanctuary law.

Several dummy satellites were supposed to be launched, but a door on the ship did not open as planned.