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Children and teens from Mountain View and surrounding communities are performing in Western Ballet’s Nutcracker this weekend at the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts. Four of the five shows kick off with a short, pre-show performance of Tchaikovsky music by the Teen Guitar Quartet, led by Los Altos resident Ashwin Krishna.

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Andrea Gemmet is the editor of the Mountain View Voice, 2017's winner of Online General Excellence at CNPA's Better Newspapers Contest and winner of General Excellence in 2016 and 2018 at CNPA's renamed...