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• VocalEssence brings the music of Marian Anderson to local seniors

  By Robert Graham, VocalEssence

  The VocalEssence Choral Pathways program is designed to enrich the lives of older adults through music education workshops, sing-along sessions and concerts. The theme for the upcoming workshops and WITNESS concert celebrates the life, legacy and music of Marian Anderson.

  Residents and community members from our partner sites [...]

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• Milestone reached in Dilworth Plaza transformation

  By Linda Harris, Center City District City of Philadelphia

  Over the weekend of January 11-13,  the Center City District, with a lot of support from SEPTA, completed a major step in the Dilworth Plaza project. The Market-Frankford station at City Hall was closed for 52 hours and trains were diverted [...]

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• A Photo Walk with artist Paul Smith at the Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art

  By Barbara Johnson Ross, Ohr-O’Keefe Museum

  Renowned throughout the State of Mississippi for his innovative, artistic photographs, photographer Paul Smith’s work is on display at the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science, the Mississippi Governor’s Mansion, and in galleries throughout the South.  Smith’s recent book of photography, entitled The Color of [...]

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• Renata Scotto’s dream for La sonnambula

  By Justin Moss, Florida Grand Opera

  The incomparable Maria Callas, known to many as “La Divina,” made her mark in the opera world with her mastery of the bel canto style. In 1957, Milan’s famous Teatro alla Scala presented a production of Bellini’s La sonnambula at the Edinburgh Festival, with [...]

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• Shira Abergel: Here & Now

  Shira Abergel has wings and she plans to use them to fly over the Appalachians during Miami Light Project’s Here & Now: 2013 — a Knight Emerging Artist Series — at The Lightbox at Goldman Warehouse. During the festival, Abergel will debut “Appalachian Squall,” which is a multi-disciplinary one-woman performance [...]

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• PPAC and the “99 Days” prior to the election

  The always engrossing Philadelphia Photo Arts Center (PPAC) is currently showing the work of six photographers for their exhibition “99 Days.” This Knight Arts grantee may be gearing down from its gigantic Philly Photo Day project from late last year, [...]

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• A not-so-traditional fairy tale: Sleeping Beauty meets Indian dance

  By Jenna Buehler, Knight Foundation

  Ranjana Warier calls herself a computer science and engineering geek with a passion for Indian dance tradition. As 2012 Knight Arts Challenge Miami winner, she is fusing her passions together to produce western fairy tales that demystify classic Indian culture. Warier, a cyber security expert [...]

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• Minnesota Opera gives voice to “Doubt,” a new opera based on the play and film by John Patrick Shanley

  Minnesota Opera’s iteration of John Patrick Shanley’s “Doubt” is not a comfortable production to watch. The newly commissioned opera, with a libretto written by Shanley himself and music by Douglas Cuomo, is the fifth to come from the company’s New Works Initiative program thus far. And while this [...]

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• For New World’s Cage fest, make your own video

  John Cage (1912-1992).

  John Cage was one of the great provocateurs, inventors and innovators of his time, and of his art.

  A measure of his influence even now, some 21 years after his death, can be measured in the blowup that’s followed a highly critical essay by Daniel Asia in [...]

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• Two Macon galleries focus on mixed media

  Two exhibits open Friday in downtown Macon. The Gallery at Macon Arts Alliance (a Knight Arts grantee) will open a four-woman exhibit titled “Wrapped Up In You” featuring work by Malena Bisanti-Wall, Cheri Lesauskis, Linda Smith and Heatherly Wakefield. The 567 Center for Renewal (a Knight Arts grantee) will [...]

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