2020-12-28 18:05:22 GMT2020-12-29 02:05:22(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
NEW YORK, Dec. 28 (Xinhua) Shirley Young, a legendary business executive and long-time promoter of bilateral exchanges between the United States and China, died on Saturday at 85 at a hospital in New York, according to a release from Young s family on Monday.
Young served as vice president of General Motors from 1988 to the end of 1999 and played a key role in General Motor s billion-dollar investment in China through a joint venture with Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp.
Young has been active in boosting exchanges between the United States and China via cultural events, the Committee of 100 and other platforms.
Dec 26, 2020
The Alzheimer’s Association Michigan Chapter will offer a wide array of free virtual support groups, education programs and social engagement programs in January, including another Dementia Super Saturday Series installment on Saturday, Jan. 30.
Alzheimer’s Association support groups, education programs and social engagement programs offer emotional and social support, provide much-needed information about memory loss and dementia, and help persons with dementia and their care partners find ways to remain socially active.
“We’re pleased to offer support to the 190,000 Michiganders living with dementia and their 518,000 caregivers especially during the pandemic, which has caused even greater isolation and stress for those impacted by dementia,” said Jean Barnas, Alzheimer’s Association program services director.
3:25 am UTC Dec. 27, 2020
From the pandemic to historic flooding to a movement for social justice to an unprecedented election, the year 2020 will go down as a year like none other in recent memory.
Jader Bignamini, Detroit Symphony Orchestra s new music director, poses for a photo onstage at Orchestra Hall in Detroit on Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2020.Junfu Han, Detroit Free Press
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Dr. Bonnie Perry lays face down at the feet of Episcopal reverends during a service that will ordain her as the eleventh bishop of the.
Dr. Bonnie Perry lays face down at the feet of Episcopal reverends during a service that will ordain her as the eleventh bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Michigan on Feb. 8, 2020, at the Ford Community & Performing Arts Center in Dearborn, Mich. Perry will become the first woman bishop as well as the first lesbian bishop in the diocese since it was formed in 1836.Kimberly P. Mitchell, Detroit Free Press
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In Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, a newly released film streaming on NETFLIX, we meet the infamous chanteuse of the Blues of the 1920’s, Gertrude “Ma” Rainey and the take members of her band. Perhaps the most transformative actress in her field, Davis’s Ma Rainey explodes on the screen with a breath-taking range of emotion and nuanced manipulation. By sheer force of stage presence and a vocabulary of devilish indignation, Ms. Davis defies even the boldest of her enemies, including an extraordinarily talented young trumpeter who wants to change the sound of his people’s music to embrace orchestrated swing and jazz. We see what it costs her to launch her authoritative onslaughts when she seeks out moments of silence. She needs these silent moments to regroup her warring spirit. Keen camera work captures the impact of each event by revealing the truth in what is unspoken.
Christmas Oratorio. Ensemble Resonanz presents Bach s
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 Bach s 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 Legris after Louis Mérante. With Kiyoka Hashimoto, Masayu Kimoto, and Davide Dato. Production from November 2018. Register for free and view here.
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