Stop. Look. Listen.

A few scenes from Celebrate Lancaster! The bell-ringers (including Lancaster Mayor Rick Gray) patiently await their cues as conductor Stephen Gunzenhauser rehearses the Lancaster Symphony orchestra.
(Edited on July 1, 2008 to change photographs to thumbnails.)

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The Heavyword Poetry Slam returns to Harrisburg July 19, with $300 on the line for the top scorer. Grab your ringside seats at the Appalachian Brewing Company, 50 N. Cameron St. Details here.

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It’s time to Celebrate Lancaster! There will be activities all day Friday downtown, including a Lancaster Symphony Orchestra concert at 8:30 p.m. and fireworks at 10. Also happening Friday: Hip-hop dance and Christian faith unite Flo’ Ethikz, who will be performing 6-9 p.m. at Building Character, 342 N. Queen St., Warehouse B. See the crew in action here. Gospel graffiti […]

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One of the pleasures of chamber music, what sets it apart, is its air of conversation among equals. Two recent concerts, at Millersville and the Pennsylvania Academy of Music, brought some memorable conversations to the area.  
The Miami String Quartet – Benny Kim and Cathy Meng Robinson, violins; Yu Jin, viola and Keith Robinson, cello – gave the String Quartet […]

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Now Dick Strawser’s gone. (Here’s a link to his blog.)
This is how WITF-FM’s schedule looks now.

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… you can see Hwaen Cho’que’s performance here. (Scroll down to the video link, which takes you to Rutube. Only his first-round performance is up yet.) Thanks to Cindy Wittenberg for the link!
A different take on street art: Reverse graffiti.

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Former countian Hwaen Cho’que has advanced to the second round of the Sviatoslav Richter Piano Competition. His performance will take place Monday at 12:30 p.m. Moscow time (4:30 a.m. here). If you’re up, you can see his performance streamed live here.

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SINGIN’ IT OLD SCHOOL: Couldn’t make it to last month’s Sacred Harp Sing? There’ll be one Saturday, June 21, 3-7 p.m. at the Lancaster Friends Meetinghouse, 100 Tulane Terrace, with a potluck dinner 5-6 p.m. (bring your own place setting).
CLASSICAL CRASH: Tonight (June 20) brings us concerts from the Next Generation Festival, with Awadagin Pratt and friends, […]

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Pecha Kucha takes the familiar concept of a slide presentation and invites participants to make something very personal out of it — it’s almost like being able to see into someone’s thoughts. At the Creative House of Lancaster’s birthday party/gathering/Pecha Kucha night Thursday, June 19 at Building Character, participants presented 10 images each, with 20 seconds per image. […]

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Group won’t file any more appeals over judge’s decision to allow the Barnes Foundation to move.

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