Category: Performing
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On The Air with 12th Street Jump
David Basse has that sort of honey-dripped voice that is suave, urbane, laced with the right touches of spice. His appearance is that sort of debonair that harkens back to a better-groomed day. His 12TH STREET JUMP singing companion, Nedra Dixon, brings that winsome voice that can speak volumes with a whispered phrase or that full-out forte that moves listeners to goose bumps.
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The Future of Music
The National Association for Music Education designates the month of March as Music in Our Schools Month. While homes may be filled with music, either through the radio or a family member playing great-grandmother’s upright piano, schools are often the place where children have access to music on regular basis.
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The Lyric Opera’s Evan Luskin in his own words
So how did I get into opera ... I grew up in Philadelphia and my parents had season tickets to the Philadelphia Orchestra. My father was a chemist, but he and my mother would have friends over and they would play chamber music. I heard classical music all my life, but my parents weren’t opera fans.
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The Final Touch
James David Christie, organ consultant for more than four years with the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, has been given the honor to play the 5,548-pipe Casavant Frères organ that graces Helzberg Hall. The concerts March 10 and 11 are sold out. Christie says the honor is humbling.
