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Forecast from meteorologist bill henley. Bill. Unless youre leaving the house right now, vai, youll leave the umbrella home and plan on bringing your sunglasses. Were going to break out into bright sunshine. However, right now, clouds and light rain falling on the Ben Franklin Park way. Live view from the comcast center. Heavy downpours. Moved into new jersey with some thunderstorm activity. Thunderstorms crossing delaware bay moving into central cumberland county. Meantime, cape may, Atlantic C...

Main area. I was teasing about your arm strength. That was an effective way to show us about how far the water goes. Reporter its closed from vine street where you see the flashing lights. Theres a Philadelphia Police officer that has the roadway closed. Heres where the major flooding is halfway down and it extends from here all the way underneath the Benjamin Franklin bridge. This is the bridge and this is where the water kind of stops and were not clear if its flooding further down but police ...

NEW YORK (AP) - Jaap van Zweden decided during the pandemic that he wanted to jettison the jet-setting life of a transatlantic conductor, so the

May Festival: Voices of the Earth Natural History is a collaboration between composer Michael Gordon and the Steiger Butte Singers. Written and commissioned to mark the centennial of the National Park System. In contrast, Julia Wolfe’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Anthracite Fields is a haunting and powerful oratorio that captures not only the sadness of lives lost in the anthracite coal fields at the turn of the 20th century, but a way of daily life now also lost. The Bang on a Can All-Stars le...

May Festival: Anthems This program of four unique anthem interpretations opens with the world premiere of Julia Wolfe’s choral work All that breathes, which embraces the massive sound of collective breath and exhalation, while David Lang‘s the national anthems reminds us that freedom is fragile, delicate and easy to lose. Julia Wolfe’s Pretty is a raw and raucous feminist anthem of work rhythms — thwarting notions of what pretty can mean. Closing out the program is Vaugha...

Rescue Ducks, The May Festival, and a Puppy Shower this weekend.

Nonesuch Records released its second album from Pulitzer Prize–winning composer Caroline Shaw, Narrow Sea, on January 22, 2021. The title piece was written for Sō Percussion, Dawn Upshaw, and Gilbert Kalish in 2017; they perform it on this recording as well. Narrow Sea comprises five parts, each a new setting of a text from The Sacred Harp nineteenth century collection of shape-note hymns. A composition Shaw wrote for Sō Percussion in 2012, Taxidermy, also is on the album. As Shaw, whose 201...

Nonesuch Records released its second album from Pulitzer Prize–winning composer Caroline Shaw, Narrow Sea, on January 22, 2021. The title piece was written for Sō Percussion, Dawn Upshaw, and Gilbert Kalish in 2017; they perform it on this recording as well. Narrow Sea comprises five parts, each a new setting of a text from The Sacred Harp nineteenth century collection of shape-note hymns. A composition Shaw wrote for Sō Percussion in 2012, Taxidermy, also is on the album. As Shaw, whose 201...

On May 2, the Herb Alpert Foundation announced the 30th annual winners of the 2024 Herb Alpert Award in the Arts, a $75,000 prize given to ten mid-career artists.

The 2024 recipients of the Heb Alpert Foundation were announced and received a residency at CalArts and a $75,000 prize.