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Harvey Pekar Opera and Sundance Wrap

Monday, January 26, 2009
Topics: Arts
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Today Dee Perry welcomes back Cleveland curmudgeon Harvey Pekar to spotlight music from his new jazz opera with Dan Plonsey onstage at Oberlin College -- Leave Me Alone! -- with a live performance in the Key Bank studio. Plus, Cleveland International Film Festival artistic director Bill Guentzler stops by to share his thoughts on this year's Sundance Festival. Illustration by Joseph Remnant

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The illustration above is an excerpt of a limited-edition, six-panel comic Harvey wrote for this show, which is available for purchase and download at www.LeaveMeAloneOpera.com.

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