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To listen to the famous local dead stand by their headstones and tell you their sad tales, join a Lantern Tour at the Sacramento Historic City Cemetery. You'll be greeted at the tall, twisted iron gate by Judy Eitzen, president of the Old City Cemetery Committee, which is hosting the tour to raise money to repair old headstones and care for plots with no living families to tend to them. "I like being here at night. It's calm and quiet and peaceful, and people like that." Eitzen said the committee wants the tours to be interesting, but at the same time respectful of the dead. Before the tour begins, guests are treated to the sounds of Claudia's Kitchen, a thirteen-member band which inc
Laughing and flouncing their way onstage, the Sacramento Master Singers began their final program of the season with the playful "Vamos a Bailar" ("Let's Dance"), complete with fingersnaps, claps and an energetic four-hands piano accompaniment by Heidi Van Regenmorter and Clifford Shockney. Shifting moods completely, the next piece was a dramatically somber a capella madrigal with subtly sustained dissonance adding to the weight of grief, and ending with a whisper sounding like "loss." Continuing softly, the next piece, "Come to Me, My Love," began with only the men's muted voices, then added layers of sound like hope returning. This was followed by "A Boy and a Girl" using poetry b