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Pianist John Owings concert for the Crystal Valley Concert Series features works by Beethoven, Ravel and Chopin.

Several times during his career, John Owings has prepared and performed the complete cycle of 32 Beethoven piano sonatas. For his first concert engagement post-lockdown, Owings seized on precisely the right one for the occasion. The Piano Sonata No. 31 in A-flat major, Opus 110, is a musical depiction of Beethoven’s own health traumas and his return to vitality. Its restorative powers are a perfect fit for a zeitgeist that sees a society ravaged by COVID-19 start to thrive again after weathering heavy losses. Owings performs a recital May 30 as part of the Crystal Valley Concert Series i...

The topic of COVID-19 vaccines came up at the Alcoa Board of Education meeting Tuesday, Dec. 15, during discussion of immunization policy. Alcoa City Schools policy mirrors state law in requiring immunizations determined by the Commissioner of Public Health and allowing exceptions for medical reasons with a doctor’s statement or on religious grounds “in the absence of an epidemic or immediate threat” of one. During a school board work session Monday, Dec. 14, someone asked whether the district would require a COVID-19 vaccine, according to Assistant Director John Campbell. At t...