Kirsten Moore-Towers and Michael Marinaro build their skating programs with large crowds in mind. Which made watching themselves win the pairs event of the Skate Canada Challenge, a unique virtual event of pre-recorded programs, bittersweet. They were happy to be back competing in any fashion after an almost year-long layoff, but lamented the loss of fans.
The mob's takeover of the U.S. Capitol came with a whole symphony of echoes. Echoes of the wildlife refuge standoff in Malheur, Oregon. Echoes of Matt Shea's Biblical Basis for Warfare and training of child soldiers for a culture war. Echoes of the anti-mask protests outside the home of our health officer.
Jensen, Andrew Paul MADISON - Andrew Paul Jensen, age 92, a longtime resident of Madison, passed away peacefully on Jan. 5, 2021. Paul was born on May 9, 1928, in Sandusky, Mich., the son of Andrew Peter and Clara Keillor Jensen.
Janet Frank describes her first miscarriage in August 2019 as "hectic". "There was a lot of bleeding and a lot of hospital visits," Frank, not her real name, explains. She bled for two months and eventually had to have a surgical procedure to end the pregnancy.
The Health Ministry reported 2,451 new cases of Covid-19 today. Selangor reported the most cases, while there was a surge of infections in Negeri Sembilan and Penang Of the new cases, 327 or 13.3 percent are linked to police lockups, prisons or immigration depots clusters.
JUANITA STOLZ NEW, passed away peacefully on January 2, 2021. Born and raised on Park Hill in North Little Rock by parents Viola and A.J. Stolz, she was 98 years old. Juanita was passionate about her family and friends, volunteering, and church. She enjoyed travel, entertaining, bridge, gardening, music, art, and exercise.
LA GRANDE - Talented local musicians may put their skills to the test this month, not at a concert hall but at home. The Grande Ronde Symphony Orchestra is accepting applications for its annual instrumentalist and vocalist contest. The winners will receive scholarships or cash prize awards and an invitation to perform with the GRSO.
The first production of the new year by the Kamloops Symphony Orchestra will be Songs & Dances, a concert inspired by folk music from by a variety of composers. The performance will be . . .
Because of a pandemic-induced delay in receiving key acoustical equipment for its new stage, the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra will push the opening of its new concert hall and virtual season back two weeks. MSO's first concert in the new Allen-Bradley Hall of the Bradley Symphony Center will now take place Feb.
Thunder Bay Symphony Orchestra is a registered charity and the only fully professional orchestra between Toronto and Winnipeg. Celebrating over 55 seasons, the Orchestra currently includes 30 full-time musicians, performing a wide-ranging repertoire from the great classical masterworks to pops and children's concerts. Lake Superior News
The Health Ministry reported 2,451 new cases of Covid-19 today. Selangor reported the most cases, while there was a surge of infections in Negeri Sembilan and Penang Of the new cases, 327 or 13.3 percent are linked to police lockups, prisons or immigration depots clusters.
Butte's historic Mother Lode Theatre hopes to bring its stage back to life this year, and expects federal stimulus money to help. Passed by Congress in late December, the Save Our Stages Act of the COVID relief bill provides $15 billion in support of venues for music, theater and film.
While much of the rest of Canada was consumed with stories about politicians ignoring pandemic protocols and jetting south to sunny climes, Atlantic Canadians this week were puzzling over a tepid scandal involving a New Brunswick cabinet minister who drove to Nova Scotia.
While everyone is staying close to home, here is a list of reader-submitted opportunities to learn, take classes, contribute, stroll through galleries, or have front-row seats to hear and see some great performances - from the convenience and comfort of your own home. All programs and activities are subject to change.
GRAND RAPIDS, MI - The Grand Rapids Symphony has scheduled a series of socially distanced virtual concerts from January to May. The Pathwaves series features "socially-distanced orchestral ensembles," whose concerts are performed "without intermission, and will be streamed live to patrons' homes, reflecting the Symphony's commitment to the health and safety of musicians and audiences alike," the symphony said in a news release.
Conductor Rafael Payare was hired Thursday as music director of the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal starting with the 2022-23 season. A Venezuelan who turns 41 on Feb. 23, Payare follows the lengthy tenures of Montreal music directors Kent Nagano (2006-20) and Charles Dutoit (1977-02). Payare trained with Claudio Abbado, Daniel Barenboim and Lorin Maazel.
BOSTON - After nearly a one-year absence due to COVID-19 restrictions, Boston Symphony Orchestra music director Andris Nelsons returns to the Symphony Hall podium this week to lead the orchestra in a series of Beethoven-inspired recordings. The recordings will be made throughout this month and released on BSO NOW, the orchestra's new expanded digital content series, on Feb.
The Des Moines Symphony will perform "Dance, Rhythm, & Blues" as part of its Live from the Temple series, featuring dance music from French and American impressionism to jazz, blues, and swing. Iowa composer Michael Daugherty's "Sinatra Shag" kicks off the virtual show at 7 p.m. Jan. 21.
It would be tough to come up with a season theme more fitting for the pandemic era than Springfield Symphony Orchestra's Comfort Food. Saturday's installment is Smorgasbord, featuring Edvard Grieg's "Piano Concerto, Brahms' "Symphony No. 2" and Debussy's "Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun."
The Will County Health Department on Thursday reported 55,311 COVID cases, an increase of 546 from Wednesday, while reported deaths from the virus increased by eight to 759. Meanwhile, Illinois on Thursday officially surpassed a grim milestone of more than 1 million cases - 1,008,045, an increase of 8,757 from Wednesday, according to the Illinois Department of Public Health, while deaths statewide totaled 17,272, an increase of 176 from Wednesday.