Stop. Look. Listen.

It’s pretty unusual for a musician to get started in his or her teens, but Jennifer Higdon, who was honored by the Lancaster Symphony Orchestra with its annual Composer’s Award, didn’t really get started in music until she was 15, as she told the audience at Friday night’s performance. That’s when her mother bought her […]

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Tonight’s water-themed Lancaster Symphony Orchestra concert was a marvel from beginning to end. Just two works were on the program: Composer’s Award recipient Jennifer Higdon’s “river sings a song to trees” from “City Scape” and Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Symphony No. 1, “A Sea Symphony.”
Higdon’s work contained extraordinary color effects derived from special percussion such as a water gong […]

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Nearly every arts organization can trace malaise and marginalization to a lack of arts education in schools.

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This weekend is all about needles and thread, fiber and craft. In addition to the Quilter’s Heritage Celebration at the Host, which began today and runs through Sunday, fiber artist Debi Hartranft will be at the Living Light Gallery on 150 N. Prince St. Saturday for the opening of a show of her works. (There […]

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NORRISTOWN, Pa. - Opponents of a plan to relocate The Barnes Foundation’s multibillion-dollar art collection to downtown Philadelphia on Monday asked the judge who approved the move to allow new hearings on the contentious issue.

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There’s a new group for playwrights getting started in the midstate area. The Playwrights Alliance of Pennsylvania will hold its first open meeting 1 p.m. Sunday, March 30, at Caffeine Connection, 512 N. 3rd St., Harrisburg. It’s open to experienced and aspiring playwrights, says Marjorie Bicknell, the board of directors’ secretary. The alliance had its origins with […]

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From the BBC, a review of the late science-fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke’s predictions –satellite communications, yes; millennium bug, no. Read more here.
A reader’s tribute.

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Imagine a land ruled by the military, a land in which people vanished silently overnight and no one dared mention their names. Imagine a time and place where it would take supreme courage just to say your child’s name – when your child is one of the disappeared. That is the military-ruled Argentina of the […]

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August now belongs to Music at Gretna: Rather than being spread out all over the summer, the classical, jazz and pop concerts will be concentrated in that one month. According to Michael Murray, executive director of Music at Gretna, starting the concerts after Gretna Theatre finishes its summer season means the organizations won’t constantly have to switch sets, which […]

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The Quarryville Library’s C.X. Carlson Cultural Room offers a big, well-lit room for the big, subtly-lit paintings of Mike Witmer and John Weaver. The two painters started working on this series of still lifes in the studio late in 2006, with both usually (but not always) working on the same setup, usually (again, not always) at the same time. […]

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