In celebration of America’s 250th anniversary, my guest on BookNotes this month is the historical novelist and preservationist Sharon Virts, whose six-part saga Fields of Honor, set during the first half of the 1800s, is grounded in historical fact.
Baltimore poet, Shirley J. Brewer—who says that she earned her MBA from the Maryland Bartending Academy!—is out with her fifth poetry collection. I invited her to read from and talk about it on BookNotes.
On WBJC, we use the terms symphonic poem and tone poem interchangeably, and that tends to lead to confusion on the part of some of our listeners. In fact, they are the exact same thing. Whatever term we use, we are referring to a single-movement orchestral piece that tells a story or paints a musical […]
To mark the beginning of Pride month in Baltimore, Music at Emmanuel is presenting an encore performance of Craig Hella Johnson’s passion oratorio, Considering Matthew Shepard. Christian Lane, Director of Music at Emmanuel, is my guest.
Mr. Secretary: From the Potato Fields to the White House is the name of a memoir by Wilbert Bryant, which has been co-written by my guest Julie Wakeman-Linn.
In 1996, Marion Winik published First Comes Love, a memoir about her marriage to a man who died of AIDS in 1994. Thirty years on, I invited Marion to look back on the trajectory of her memoir and her experience.
Avila Music Makers offers a concert series of internationally acclaimed classical and jazz musicians to Senior Living Communities in the Baltimore-Annapolis areas. I invited Gretchen Maneval, Director of External Affairs at Avila Home Care, to tell me more. For more information about Avila Home Care and its Avila Music Makers programming, […]
I have so enjoyed meeting up with Shriver Hall Concert Series Executive Director, Catherine Cochran, from time to time this season to look back on the six decades that the series has been bringing great artists to Baltimore. You can hear our sixth and last episode here:
British cellist Steven Isserlis and his long-time collaborator Connie Shih perform a program of Beethoven, Schumann, Kabalevsky, and Vítězslava Kaprálová to close out the subscription season of Shriver Hall Concert Series‘ 60th anniversary. I spoke with him by phone from New York.
Poet and essayist Elizabeth Hazen is a Maryland native and a fixture on the Baltimore literary scene. Her new poetry collection, The Sky Will Hold, is out this weekend.
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