Stop. Look. Listen.

On a dark and chilly Friday night in Lancaster, I found myself looking for the Parlor Art Space on Laurel Street in the city’s southwest. I had taken a wrong turn in the dark — several wrong turns — and I was about to give up and go home when I saw gallery and, through its front […]

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Charlie Rose interviewed Marin Alsop, music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, and music critic Alex Ross Tuesday; see clips here.

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Any man who can preface his online artist’s statement with a quotation from Bruce Lee obviously has a working knowledge of pop culture.
Miles Halpern (whose “Bunnyman” is shown at left, along with a metal sculpture by his grandfather Michael Lichstein) has been fruitfully mining this area for some years now, but his latest show at […]

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Location change: Blues harmonica player Corky Siegel will be performing at the Ford Atrium in McComsey Hall at Millersville University. The free concert starts at 7:30 p.m. tonight (Jan. 14).

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The Lancaster Symphony Orchestra audience is loosening up; last night we clapped between each movement of the Corky Siegel Harmonica Concerto and there was even a little talking! There were also a few whoo’s of approval as well.
 This is the text of the review I wrote for the Saturday (Jan. 12) New Era. (I’m not […]

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The Lancaster Symphony Orchestra was really on during tonight’s concert. It was a wild and entertaining ride from beginning to end, and the musicians appeared to really be having a good time, performing a group of less-familar to downright new works with verve, energy, and rhythmic attack. There were really no slack moments.
Soloist Corky Siegel was outstanding […]

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F&M College has posted a cultural events calendar for the winter-spring semester. Especially interesting is a concert by the Armenian musicians of the Shoghaken Folk Ensemble. (More famous Armenian musicians here.)

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Blues-harmonica player Corky Siegel will be performing with the Lancaster Symphony Orchestra this weekend. He’ll also be giving a free concert at Millersville University Monday, at 7:30 p.m. in the Reighard Multipurpose Room of the Student Memorial Center. Check out the music clips on this site!

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This was the year of the emerging Lancaster star. Jonathan Groff and Catherine Walker won recognition on Broadway, Abigail Breslin was an Oscar contender, and Eliseo Roman is ready for his turn on the Great White Way. Another countian had his 15+ hours of fame thanks to reality TV. Closer to home, the Lancaster Symphony added concerts and […]

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The Long’s Park Art & Craft Festival got third place in American Style’s annual top ten fairs and festivals list, according to an article in the magazine’s Feb. 2008 edition. Read more here. It’s the first time the event has made it into the magazine’s list.

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