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Mike Herle

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  Review – The VSO Performs Gershwin, Feb. 6, Orpheum Theatre

  How could Mike Herle not love it? It’s Gershwin, aka the music from the Woody Allen movie Manhattan.

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  Review – The VSO Performs Symphony of a Thousand, Mahler’s Symphony No. 8

  A cast of (literally) over a thousand performs Mahler’s Symphony of a Thousand.

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  Review – Fiddle and the Drum at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Jan 22 2010

  The self-proclaimed ‘best project’ of Joni Mitchell’s career, a collaboration with the Alberta Ballet, comes to Vancouver to help kick off the Cultural Olympiad 2010.

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  Review – VSO at the Orpheum Theatre, Jan 16 2010

  The VSO performs Dvorak’s Carnival Overture and Respighi’s Anicent Airs and Dances and Pines of Rome, while Jennifer Koh plays ‘like an angel possessed.’

• Review – Vancouver Symphony Orchestra at the Orpheum Theatre, Jan 9, 2010

  Mozart goes to the heart, writes our reviewer. The VSO repeats the program tonight at the Orpheum Theatre.

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  Review – Vancouver Symphony Orchestra at the Orpheum, Vancouver, Jan 2 2010

  Mike Herle rings in the new year with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra playing that tune from A Clockwork Orange.

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  Review – U2 at B.C. Place Stadium, Oct 28 2009

  U2’s management wouldn’t give guttersnipe correspondent Istvan Nosenko a reviewer ticket. However, Mike Herle, on his own dime, was kind enough to throw this review our way. F%#$ you Bonyo!

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  Review – Collective Soul at the Commodore, Vancouver, Oct 23 2009

  Why are we running a review of the rock band known for its 1993 hit “Shine”? Nostalgia, sentimentality, and because Mike Herle wanted to review and Jessica Bardosh wanted to take photos.

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  Review – Adrian Belew at the Venue, Oct 11 2009

  King Crimson, Talking Heads, and David Bowie—with credits like these to his name, Adrian Belew is a guitar player’s guitar player.

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  Review – Roger Daltrey at the Commodore Ballroom, Oct. 10, 2009

  For Who fans who might’ve been worried he was going do do all of the McVicar soundtrack, Roger Daltrey’s Vancouver show—the first of his ‘Use It or Lose It’ tour—was a Who-riffic treat.