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Wagner’s Die Walküre. Conductor: Adam Fischer, director: Sven-Eric Bechtolf. With Christopher Ventris, Ain Anger, Waltraud Meier, Linda Watson, and Tomasz Konieczny. Production from January 2016. Register for free and view here. 1 pm ET: Copland House presents Underscored: Jalbert’s Crossings. Vermont-born composer Pierre Jalbert was inspired by the migration of people voyaging into new and unfamiliar places and traces Jalbert’s own French-Canadian-American ancestry. Crossings is bui...

I can really break any barriers | Central Texas female students feel empowered watching Kamala Harris sworn in Several Central Texas school districts gave teachers resources on how to include the 2021 presidential inauguration in their curriculums. Author: Mari Salazar (KVUE) Updated: 7:28 PM CST January 20, 2021 AUSTIN, Texas — A few Central Texas school districts provided their teachers with resources on how to incorporate the 2021 presidential inauguration i...

1 pm ET: Wiener Staatsoper presents Giselle. Conductor: Valery Ovsyanikov, choreography: Elena Tschernischova after Jean Coralli, Jules Perrot and Marius Petipa. With Nina Poláková, Masayu Kimoto, Rebecca Horner, Andrey Kaydanovskiy, Alice Firenze, Leonardo Basílio, and Soloists and Corps de ballet des Wiener Staatsballetts. Production from September 2017. Register for free and view here. 2:30 pm ET: Philharmonie de Paris presents Casadesus conducts Debussy, Ravel, Schumann & Beethoven. Jea...

Verdi’s Un Ballo in Maschera. Starring Aprile Millo, Harolyn Blackwell, Florence Quivar, Luciano Pavarotti, and Leo Nucci, conducted by James Levine. From January 26, 1991. View here and for 24 hours. ** Wagner’s Das Rheingold. Conductor: Adam Fischer, director: Sven-Eric Bechtolf. With Tomasz Konieczny, Norbert Ernst, Jochen Schmeckenbecher, Herwig Pecoraro, and Michaela Schuster. Production from January 2016. Register for free and view here.  Sunday, January 3 Handel’s Semele. First...

Christmas Oratorio. Ensemble Resonanz presents Bachs Christmas Oratorio as Hausmusik among friends. With a small cast and no large choir, the ensemble has arranged 30 arias, recitatives, choruses, and chorales from Bachs masterpiece in its own version. The score remains untouched, but electric guitar and Hammond organ sound in the continuo, there’s only one trumpet, and the whole ensemble joins in the chorales. View here. ** Delibes’s Sylvia. Conductor: Kevin Rhodes, choreography: Manuel ...

ST Math now available to school systems through TEAs Texas Home Learning 3.0 initiative and last updated 2020-12-17 16:18:20-05 AUSTIN, TX — Governor Abbott and the Texas Education Agency (TEA) announced on Dec 17. that a supplemental K-5 math computer program, ST Math, will be made available to school systems through TEAs Texas Home Learning 3.0 (THL 3.0) initiative. Like other THL 3.0 offerings, ST Math is optional and aligned to Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS)—the stat...

TEA Announce Free Access To Supplemental Math Program for TX Schools, Families Texas Home Learning 3.0 Initiative AUSTIN – Governor Greg Abbott and the Texas Education Agency (TEA) today announced that a supplemental K-5 math computer program will be made available to school systems through TEA’s Texas Home Learning 3.0 (THL 3.0) initiative. Like other THL 3.0 offerings, these instructional materials are optional and aligned to Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS)—the state standa...

Starting in the next academic year, Frisco ISD high schools are set to begin offering an African American Studies course for students in grades 10-12. The Frisco ISD Board of Trustees on Monday unanimously approved offering the course starting in the 2021-2022 school year as a Social Studies elective. Meridith Manis, secondary social studies coordinator for Frisco ISD, said curriculum coordinators have been looking at adding social studies elective courses for students. “Through this journ...

3 pm ET: London Philharmonic Orchestra presents All the World’s a Stage. The LPO celebrates Brett Dean, their new Composer in Residence, with the UK premiere of The Players. The scene is Elsinore, setting of Dean’s opera Hamlet, with the solo role played by accordion player James Crabb. The concert begins with Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 and ends with Stravinsky’s mock-Baroque Pulcinella. View here.  6 pm ET: Philadelphia Chamber Music Society presents Mark Steinberg, Marcy...