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With 'Appalachian Spring' Baltimore School for the Arts breaks new ground
If there is a single work that captures the essence of America in sound and movement, it's "Appalachian Spring," the ballet with music by Aaron Copland and choreography by Martha Graham that premiered in 1944 at the Library of Congress. Although the...
Tags: Concerts, Music, Teaching and Learning, Yale University, Education
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Boonsboro High School student a finalist in writing contest
A Washington County student will be honored as a Maryland finalist April 13 at the CityLit Festival at the Enoch Pratt Free Library for her entry into the Letters About Literature contest. Boonsboro High School student Elizabeth Longerbeam will be...Tags: Human Interest, Culture, Enoch Pratt Free Library, Authors, Libraries
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Fay Kanin dies at 95; screenwriter was former Academy president
Fay Kanin, an Oscar-nominated screenwriter for the 1958 Clark Gable-Doris Day comedy "Teacher's Pet" and former president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, died Wednesday. She was 95. In a writing career that spanned more than four...Tags: Primetime Emmy Awards, Human Interest, Elizabeth Taylor, Cary Grant, Bette Davis
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On Theater: Another 'Lincoln,' closer to home
I'd like to use my space this week to talk about "Lincoln." No, not the Steven Spielberg blockbuster that may be front-and-center at Sunday's Oscar ceremonies, and not Bill O'Reilly's "Killing Lincoln," now on our television screens. This one is...
Tags: Steven Spielberg, James Earl Jones, Lincoln (movie, 2012), Abraham Lincoln, Douglas
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D-Day broadcast named to National Recording Registry
ReporterThe Library of Congress has added two dozen important recordings to its national registry. Most are musical selections, including songs by Chubby Checker, the Bee Gees and Simon and Garfunkel, but one is a news broadcast with a tie to western Virginia,...Tags: Music, U.S. Navy, Chubby Checker, Bee Gees (music group), Entertainment
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UPJ to host award-winning poet
Our Town CorrespondentThe 10th annual Esther Goldhaber Jacovitz Poetry Reading is scheduled to take place March 20 at the Whalley Memorial Chapel on the Pitt-Johnstown campus. This year’s featured speaker is George Bilgere, an award-winning poet whose work is...Tags: John Carroll, Authors, Billy Collins, Radio, University of Akron
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Washington bound? Take an orange-juice break at Florida's 'embassy'
It's a busy time in the nation's capital, where the National Cherry Blossom Festival continues through April 14. If you venture to Washington this spring or any time, consider paying a visit to Florida House, now celebrating 40 years as our home away from...
Tags: Bob Graham, Seminole County, Libraries, Politics, Orlando
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Josef F. Bikle
janeth@herald-mail.comJosef “Chris” Bikle was just waiting for a nice spring day so he could sit on the porch of his Boonsboro home with his daughter-in-law, Lisha Bikle. Even though he had been living at the Village at Robinwood for about three years, his family...Tags: Washington, DC, Chinese Restaurants, Dining and Drinking, Lifestyle and Leisure, France
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2012 National Recording Registry selections unveiled
This post has been updated. See note below for details. Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side of the Moon” is no longer just the rock album that has logged more weeks than any other on Billboard’s national album chart nor merely the one acid...
Tags: Dwight D. Eisenhower, Music, Chubby Checker, Big Brother and the Holding Company (music group), Entertainment
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Everyone's life is a story, so write it down for posterity [Senior Circles]
The inspiration for this column came from a local newspaper article I read about a "girl" with whom I went to high school for two years at St. Cecilia's Academy in Washington, D.C. This woman, whom I haven't seen since then, has always kept a low...Tags: World War I (1914-1918), Washington, DC, NPR, Cryptologic Incorporated, History (tv network)
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10 Things to Know for Today
Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today: 1. OBAMA HEADS TO WEST BANK The president is meeting with Abbas about the peace process, as rockets were launched into Israel today. 2. WHAT...Tags: American Academy of Pediatrics, Chubby Checker, European Central Bank, Cyprus, Jimmy Fallon
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Review: 'Oz the Great and Powerful' a rough slog on the yellow brick road
Sometimes sweet, sometimes scary, sometimes sour, "Oz the Great and Powerful" is a film that doesn't know its own mind. A partially effective jumble whose elements clash rather than cohere, this solid but not spectacular effort stubbornly refuses to catch...
Tags: Movies, Joey King, Michelle Williams, Academy Awards, Entertainment
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