National Public Radio once called classical music Houstonâs best-kept secret. But Grand Teton Music Festival audiences have known for decades about the deep pool of talent Space City has to offer. Drawing from some 64 ensembles and 47 institutions of higher learning, the festival has long relied on the Houston Symphony, the Houston Grand Opera and the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University, as well as various chamber ensembles and freelancers, to pack its orchestra â 20 musicians out of 2019âs roster of 222 â including some of the organizationâs longest-serving members.
It is fitting, therefore, that at least one of this winterâs âGTMF on Locationâ digital concerts should emanate from Houston and that it should represent a broad range of instrumentation and repertoire.
Rev. Allison Mark is senior pastor of Faith United Methodist Church in Torrance, California.
Mariam Mengistie is executive director of missions at St. Luke’s United Methodist Church in Tampa, Florida.
Dr. Beverly Mitchell is professor of Historical Theology at Wesley Theological Seminary.
William Moore is executive director of The Eleanor Crook Foundation.
Carol Myers has been a Bread supporter since 1975. In a previous term on Bread’s board, she served as vice chair and on a committee to establish the endowment.
Dawn Pierce is a licensed practical nurse and community advocate.
The Right Rev. Frank Madison Reid, III is the ecumenical officer for the African Methodist Episcopal Church as well as Presiding Prelate of the Third Episcopal District.
Pluvial lakes offer insights
What does the rise and fall of latest Pleistocene pluvial lakes in the northern Great Basin have to tell us about water and carbon cycles, landscape response to climate change, and how the role the continents play in modulating habitable surface conditions over geologic time?
Beats me, but Daniel Enrique Ibarra, visiting assistant professor of environment and society at Brown University, has some thoughts about the subject. And he will share them at the next presentation of the Geologists of Jackson Hole, set for 6 p.m. Jan. 19 via Zoom.
“Early geologists documented extensive lacustrine shoreline deposits in many terminal basins of the Great Basin,” GeologistsOfJacksonHole.org writes, “and in doing so formally documented evidence for many classic Earth science concepts including uniformitarianism, isostasy and diastrophism, and glacial-interglacial cycles.”
Former interim Nacogdoches County Chamber president, community leader dies
Bill Teague By Gary Bass | December 28, 2020 at 11:14 AM CST - Updated December 28 at 6:25 PM
NACOGDOCHES, Texas (KTRE) - Bill Teague, who once served as the interim president and CEO of the Nacogdoches County Chamber of Commerce and was active with the townâs Rotary and Booster clubs, died at his home on Dec. 25.
Teague was 83 when he died, and he was born on Oct. 24, 1937.
The community leaderâs obituary on the Laird Funeral Home website featured a quote from Teague, who said, âSo remember, âAll days are good, some are just better than others.â
12 ways to give back to Orlando this holiday season
Shed a little light, nourish the community and invest in a better local future
In a fortuitous bit of holiday kismet, this week s Savage Love column saw Dan Savage advising a reader who was feeling a little seasonally blue that helping others is an excellent way to maintain your sanity. Along those very same lines, we decided to put aside our usual 12 Strays of Christmas photo essay and instead point out some local organizations that help Orlandoans in need. We ve highlighted 12 that caught our eye during this very difficult year some formed as a result of the pandemic, some trying to keep up their mission amid new challenges posed by it and they re all doing amazing work worthy of a few of our increasingly scarce dollars. This list is by no means exhaustive, and we both beg your pardon if we ve omitted some local dynamos as well as encourage you to make your own 12 Ways lists. But if you are able, try to give somethi