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Albert Hall, opera singer
Albert Hall, a professional opera singer and choirmaster who began his singing career during his student days at City College, died May 13 from colon cancer at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. The Towson resident was 89. The son of a plumber and a...
Tags: Health and Safety at School, Culture, Colon Cancer, Religion and Belief, Awards and Prizes
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Howard County datebook Datebook
Thursday, May 9 School news The Board of Education holds a regularly scheduled meeting at 4 p.m. in the board room at 10910 Clarksville Pike in Ellicott City. Both the afternoon session and an evening session, which convenes at 7:30 p.m., begins with a...Tags: Christianity, Anglicanism, Music, Clarksville, Ellicott City
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All aboard for Fire Museum's Steam Show and gardening club's MayFair [Lutherville]
Don't be alarmed if you hear steam whistles and other loud noises on Saturday, May 4 — they will be emanating from the Fire Museum of Maryland's 36th annual Steam Show. Along with the steam fire engine demonstrations, the show features...Tags: Museums, Whitehall, Fires, Arts and Culture
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Opera star Denyce Graves joins Peabody Conservatory faculty
In terms of talent, glamour and wide appeal, few opera singers today rank as high as mezzo-soprano Denyce Graves. No wonder there's quite a buzz at the Peabody Conservatory, where Graves will join the voice faculty in the fall. People are still talking...
Tags: September 11, 2001 Attacks, Culture, Duke Ellington, London (England), Washington, DC
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Peabody Conservatory receives $800,000 donation from former employee, alumna
A reception will be held Wednesday at the Peabody Conservatory in honor of the late Mary C. Walker, who upon her death donated $800,000 to the institution where she studied and worked for most of her life. The bulk of Walker's gift — $600,000...
Tags: Human Interest, Awards and Prizes
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Young singers shine at Kodaly educators conference [Lutherville]
Local elementary and middle-school students performed in the Children's Choir at the Organization of American Kodaly Educators (OAKE) national conference in Hartford, Conn., March 20- 23. The students, representing Riderwood Elementary School, Dumbarton...
Tags: Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut), Teachers, Entertainment, Students, Music
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Mary Aitken, music teacher
Mary Aitken, a retired switchboard operator who taught music in Baltimore public schools, died of Alzheimer's disease March 28 at her home in the Ridervale section of Riderwood in Baltimore County. She was 89. Born Mary Wootsey Derr in Roanoke, Va., she...
Tags: Health and Safety at School, Music, American Revolutionary War (1775-1783), Bolton Hill, Alzheimer's Disease
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Charles C. Freitag, Calvert Hall music teacher
Charles C. Freitag, the longtime director of the music program at Calvert Hall College High School where he was also a founder of its marching, concert and dance bands, died Monday of heart failure at Stella Maris Hospice. The Mays Chapel resident was 92....Tags: Hunt Valley, Heart Failure, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (fictional animal), Hamilton, Glenn Miller
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Baltimore Symphony announces 2013-14 season
There’s a light and dark theme running through the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s 2013-2014 season, which includes works dealing with great loss, as well as great compassion. “Sometimes through tragedy, whether a world war or a...
Tags: September 11, 2001 Attacks, Casablanca (movie), Entertainment Events, Baltimore Choral Arts Society, Barbra Streisand
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Hopkins scientist finds link between neurobiology of music, language
A Johns Hopkins brain scientist is finding a neurological basis for a notion that many people believe intuitively — that music is as much a form of language as Spanish or French. Charles Limb is one of just a handful of researchers worldwide...
Tags: Science, Yale University, Harvard University, Entertainment, Music
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Isidor Saslav, BSO concertmaster
Isidor Saslav, a former Baltimore Symphony Orchestra concertmaster and Peabody Institute violin teacher, died of complications from cancer Jan. 26 at a hospital in Tyler, Texas. The former Mount Washington resident was 74.
Born in Jerusalem, he moved...Tags: Music, Culture, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Baltimore School for the Arts, George Bernard Shaw
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Memorial service Friday for Dr. Steven Muller
A memorial service for Steven Muller, president emeritus of the Johns Hopkins University, will be held from 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. Friday at the Peabody Institute's Miriam A. Friedberg Concert Hall, entrance at 17 E. Mount Vernon Place. Dr. Muller died Jan....Tags: Johns Hopkins University, Mount Vernon Place, Washington, DC
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