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Renowned Odessa pianist and opera hopeful Ronald Bennett
Odessa area figures remember Ronald Bennett as a longtime piano teacher, Baldwin endorsee, and arts advocate. The Odessa American critic mentors dozens of students, scripted an Odessa ballet, and pursues an operatic project inspired by a century old back page tale while juggling health setbacks and a pet Chihuahua.
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Dallas Morning News
Romania
Bennett
Sylvan
Marguerite
Dortha
Ron
Screen Actors Guild
Los Angeles
Felix
Felix Mendelssohn
Baldwin
Odessa American
Fine Arts
Beethoven
Chopin
Debussy
Ravel
Schubert
Schumann
Dallas
Timothy Brown
Odessa College
Gayle Bizzell
Texas
John Ben Shepperd
Odessa
Southern Methodist University
Nikita Talin
the Globe
Hood Junior High Choir
Barbara Shinn
Hood
Wilson & Young Medal of Honor Middle School
Penny Boss
Sam
Boss
Sonya Haynie
Ronald
Haynie