Mar.
07
2020
Booknotes on “The Understudy’s Handbook” and the 17th CityLit Festival
Steven Leyva wears two hats to the Booknotes studio—poet and board member of the CityLity Project.
Judith Krummeck
Mar.
02
2020
Art and Music in Chicago
Once again, I thought of you as I strolled around an art museum looking at paintings that touched on music. The Renoir oil on canvas, Woman at the Piano, needs no explanation. For the Degas pastel, Ballet at the Paris Opéra, I may need to direct your attention to the bottom […]
Feb.
27
2020
Victoria Gau premiere season with Cantate Chamber Singers continues
Victoria Gau‘s second concert as Music Director of Cantate Chamber Singers centers around the themes of loss, morality, and peace in relation to Mozart’s Requiem.
Feb.
26
2020
A Norwegian sibling duo for Music in the Valley
The Coucheron Siblings, violinist David Coucheron and pianist Julie Coucheron, present a program of music by their Norwegian compatriots, along with Beethoven and Massenet, for Music in the Valley at St. John’s Episcopal Church, Western Run Parish. Here is the series’ Artistic Director, Benjamin Buchanan.
Feb.
19
2020
Two Grammy® nominees at Shriver Concerts
American tenor, Lawrence Brownlee, and American-Korean pianist, Myra Huang, collaborate on two song cycles from German Romanticism and contemporary America for Shriver Hall Concert Series. Here is the series’ Executive Director, Catherine Cochran.
Feb.
09
2020
Spring 2020 at JHU’s Odyssey program
The spring semester for Odyssey 2020 begins on February 15th. Douglas Blackstone is the Director of Odyssey, and Gary Vikan is the coordinator of the of the multi-speaker perspectives.
Feb.
08
2020
The Daily Miracle on BookNotes
C. Fraser Smith‘s new book The Daily Miracle is a memoir of nearly 50 years in the newspaper business.
Jan.
18
2020
Retooled – tools as art at the Mitchell Gallery
We call a spade a spade, right? But what if we look at it differently? The Mitchell Gallery on the campus of St. John’s College in Annapolis is hosting an exhibition called Retooled: Highlights from the Hechinger Collection. Here is the gallery’s Art Educator, Lucinda Edinberg. January 26 Lecture at […]
Jan.
09
2020
A musical murder mystery
If you like Gustav Mahler, Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Sergei Rachmaninov, Gioachino Rossini, Josef Haydn, and J.S. Bach, it’s all the more reason for you to catch Ken Ludwig’s adaptation of the iconic whodunit Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie before its season ends at the Everyman Theatre on Sunday. Interspersed with music of the […]
Jan.
04
2020
Booknotes catches up with Baltimore’s newest indie bookstore
The latest independent bookstore to open in Baltimore is Charm City Books in the Pigtown neighborhood. Here is founder-owner, Daven Ralston.
