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/ As venues are reopening and work is returning for musicians and presenters, saxophonist and bandleader Stacy Dillard has a recommendation for success in a new era. It involves the ability of the greater community to bond together and not forget its recent past. "We need each other," Dillard told me recently, for Let Me Tell You Bout It. "Society suffers from amnesia a lot....we saw what it was like to not have [music], and we need to keep in mind how much we actually love it." WBGOs Let Me Te...

At least 3 school board incumbents lose to well-funded newcomers in Portland suburbs Updated 10:22 PM; Today 9:14 PM Newcomers outspent incumbents heavily in this years school board elections. In Washington County alone, challengers raised nearly three times as much as sitting board members.Oregonian file photo by Brooke Herbert, 2020 Facebook Share Incumbents faced challenges from newcomers with expansive war chests in school board races across the metro area Tuesday and partial returns show...

The election has drawn a slate of candidates opposed to comprehensive sexuality education. In October 2019, the Hillsboro school board in Washington County unanimously adopted a comprehensive sexuality education curriculum. While the vote had no dissenters, the topic was anything but uncontroversial. The curriculum was approved at the conclusion of a more-than-three-hour meeting that drew hundreds of attendees. Some who addressed the board during the meeting expressed strong support for the c...

THE MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR AT STYLES May 21-June 5, 2021 | Virtual Production Austin Playhouse presents a virtual production of Agatha Christie’s The Mysterious Affair at Styles adapted by Producing Artistic Director Lara Toner Haddock available online May 21 – June 5, 2021. The Mysterious Affair at Styles was Christie’s first published novel and introduced the world to one of her most beloved characters, Belgian Inspector Hercule Poirot. Employing a hybrid approach to theatrical filming in ...

Virtual conference will address the future of learning

Austin 360 Muffled medical masking might seem antithetical to the performance of a play by William Shakespeare, who created whole worlds with spoken words. Yet a staging of the playwrights "Twelfth Night" outdoors on the St. Edwards University campus proved that this romantic comedy loses none of its charm, clarity or cleverness, even masked. After all, ancient Greek actors wore full facial masks, some outfitted with little megaphones. Two thousand years later, Italian commedia players donned...

2021-04-12T10:53:00+01:00 The Livestream Performance Schedule includes over 250 recitals from April to June Handel’s Teseo on the Peter Jay Sharp Theater stage on 4 February 2021 (photo courtesy of Juilliard) The Juilliard School is launching Juilliard LIVE, a new streaming initiative offering performances from across its three divisions—music, dance, and drama—online. With a mix of livestreamed and on-demand content, the programme includes over 250 recitals from April to June. Student...

WTJU Feb 23rd, 2021 | By Russell Perry Frank Kimbrough Although he has been gone now 39 years, and it has been much longer since he stopped writing, no composer of modern jazz has garnered more attention from his fellow musicians than Thelonious Monk, whose work is the subject of a continuous stream of tribute recordings. Groups as diverse as the Bobby Broom Trio, the Microscopic Septet and John Beasley and MONK’estra have assembled releases from their favorite compositions, but Miles Ok...

With the cold weather these days, one pandemic trend is continuing to warm people’s homes: sourdough baking. The process of making a loaf with live fermented cultures has risen in popularity since last March—largely because the yeast shortage early in the COVID-19 pandemic took other breads off the table, and because many people are spending more time at home, according to Benjamin Wolfe, who studies microbial ecology and evolution in his lab at Tufts. (See "Nine Tips to Make Sourdough.") �...