Stop. Look. Listen.

Coming right up: the 12th Annual Millennium Music Conference & Showcase, Feb. 14-17 in Harrisburg. More info here and here. Over 275 artists, from the band next door to musicians Australia, Canada and Senegal, will be performing.

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The lasting influence of artist and teacher Maya Schock and Doshi, the Harrisburg gallery she founded in 1972, is being celebrated at the Susquehanna Art Museum in Harrisburg in a special exhibit featuring many artists from around the region.
Included among the many works in the exhibit are works by well-known Lancaster artists Jerry Hershey, Mike […]

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A contest for synesthetes. … sounds like a good idea to me!

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 The passing of time has sanded away some of the shock in Maya Deren’s techniques and left us with the visual poetry of her few (too few) black-and-white films, three of which were shown at Millersville University Friday night (Jan. 25), with live music provided by the Philadelphia new-music ensemble Relâche.
Her first two films, “Meshes […]

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… offering free downloads. Violinist Tasmin Little is also offering a free download of works by J.S. Bach, Paul Patterson and Eugène Ysaÿe. (And an opportunity to take the three-step challenge as well!)
Closer to home … it must be Philadelphia musicians’ weekend in the county. Alan Morrison, head of the organ department at Curtis Institute, […]

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The Philadelphia-based new-music ensemble Relâche will pay a rare visit to Lancaster County Friday, accompanying three short films by the pioneering surrealist filmmaker Maya Deren, at 7 p.m. in Millersville University’s Lyte Auditorium. Admission is free.
I spoke briefly Tuesday with Dustin Hurt, executive director of Relâche, about the program, which will include Deren’s first […]

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Movie critic Roger Ebert will be returning to the hospital Thursday. He’s posted a notice on rogerebert.com.

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Artist Felix de la Concha spent more than a year at Fallingwater, Frank Lloyd Wright’s famed stream-spanning house in western Pennsylvania, painting it and its setting at many times, from different viewpoints. The fifty paintings of “Fallingwater en Perspectiva” will be shown at the State Museum of Pennsylvania in Harrisburg Jan. 30-March 22. The exhibit […]

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A Gospel Extravaganza, with groups from Baltimore, York, Harrisburg, Lancaster and more at Elizabethtown College tonight at 7: details here.

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 John and Carol Walls are no longer operating their gallery in the Assets Center, 237 N. Prince St., but owner Carol Walls says they’re continuing to work out of their home studio and online. They will also be participating in the Artist’s Junction Snowflake Gala at the Mulberry Art Studios in February. Although the small gallery […]

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