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Springfield Symphony Orchestra: Fancy Footwork

Vocal powerhouse Vocal powerhouse Making music is all in the family for opera singer Andrea Wells ’00. Operatic soprano Andrea Chenoweth Wells ’00 has thrilled audiences from Cleveland to Carnegie Hall with her lush, powerhouse vocals. But her family — a musical dynasty to rival the von Trapps — served as her first audience. Andrea Chenoweth Wells ’00 Her father, University of Dayton professor emeritus Richard Chenoweth, remembers driving back from visiting the gra...

Upcoming Events May 2021 May 8 @ 2:00 am - 7:30 pm Springfield’s Talk 104.1 invites you to enjoy an evening with our friends at the Springfield Symphony Orchestra. Ragtime is a home-grown American original, and Missouri was home for many years to Scott Joplin, the king of ragtime. Legendary ragtime pianist and story-teller Gary Ellison will join the Springfield Symphony for performances of Missouri history and music celebrating this great American musical form. Join us for performan...

Springfield Symphony Orchestra: Locally Grown

Four months after announcing its closing, Gateway City Arts in Holyoke plans its comeback Updated 9:09 AM; Today 9:09 AM Vitek Kruta and Lori Divine Hudson are partners in the Gateway City Arts complex, located on Race Street in Holyoke. (Don Treeger | The Republican file photo) Facebook Share HOLYOKE — Vitek Kruta and Lori Divine announced in December that they were shutting down their Gateway City Arts complex with the hope of selling the property after exhausting efforts to keep it goi...

Nick Reed talks about a variety of topics in the news, including: United Airlines is taking a bizarre business risk and announcing to the world that it will no longer hire the best pilots available but will instead make sure that 50% of their trainees for flying you around the world will be women and minorities. Lexi Locke with The Springfield Symphony joins us this morning: There is an upcoming concert that you don’t want to miss! Saturday, April 10, head to the symphony for SCHNITZEL AND ST...

Nick Reed talks about a variety of topics in the news, including: Sen. John Thune, said those aiming to punish senators who voted to convict former President Trump at his impeachment trial are engaging in “cancel culture.” Former President Trump turned down his former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley after she requested a meeting. Thirteen House Democrats have co-sponsored a bill that would bar the federal government from naming any buildings or monuments for former President Trump, ...

Performing arts venues, suffering under pandemic shutdown, struggle to move forward Updated Feb 08, 2021; Facebook Share There is a joke among concert promoters that since they have nothing to do, the government should put them in charge of distributing the COVID-19 vaccine. “Everyone would get a wristband and head into a post-vaccination VIP meet-and-greet for a picture with Dr. Fauci,” said John Sanders of DSP Shows. It’s a bit of dark humor. Sanders said he knows that vaccines, Dr. An...