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Every year, we at Whats Up! challenge ourselves to look back and then look forward. So I asked April Wallace and Monica Hooper, both of whom write for the magazine, to choose their top three stories from 2023.

"New Canons" is the first album ever for the Symphony of Northwest Arkansas -- and the first commercial recording of each of the compositions included on it: "Latency Canons" by Ray Lustig, "In saecula saeculorum" by SoNA Music Director Paul Haas and "Cohere I" by Trevor New.

Editors Note: This is Becca Martin-Browns final story selection. It originally ran July 31, 2022.

There are four newsworthy headlines in the Symphony of Northwest Arkansas 2022-23 season announcement.

By the time he retired in December 2003, he was the longest-tenured photographer at the Capitol and was dubbed 'dean of the Hill.'

photo: Michael Reitman With his new album, Modern Sounds in Classical Music, Eric Heilner fully embodies the concept of “coming full circle.” His deep family legacy of classical music, including his father who was a member of Aaron Copland’s Young Composers Group and his sister who led the group Animal Logic, ensured Eric’s musical proclivities were always going to appear, and reappear, throughout his life. As a child, Eric excelled at piano, and after college he toured with and opene...