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Dyana is WBJC's midday host. Her full bio can be read here.

Nov. 03 2011

Production week: it’s not for sissies

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More news from Lyric Opera Baltimore’s “La Traviata”: we’ve been on the Lyric’s stage since last Friday & had a fabulous final dress rehearsal with an audience (mostly students from area schools, but also some friends & family of cast members) last night. The audience certainly seemed to enjoy the show; we received such enthusiastic […]

Oct. 27 2011

I get paid to play dress-up. Oh, yeah, and sing.

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When I was a kid,”dress-up” was undoubtedly my favorite playtime activity. I had a huge stash of my mom’s old costume jewelry & purchased more of the stuff (plus various used bridesmaid’s dresses) at garage sales, so my friends & I could spend hours pretending to be royalty or characters from our favorite TV shows. […]

Oct. 25 2011

I have a tambourine…

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& I’m not afraid to use it. Well, maybe a little bit. It is commonly said that opera singers can’t act, & sometimes with good reason, but we are expected to give it our best shot. These days, no matter how good the voices onstage are, audiences have come to expect a bit of theater […]

Oct. 20 2011

“Your voice is not an instrument, it is a…

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weapon!” So says James Harp, Artistic Director & Chorus Master at Lyric Opera Baltimore. Of course, the human voice is also capricious, delicate, & vulnerable to colds, allergies, & all manner of other irritants. Mine is the main reason I get paychecks, so I try to take good care of it. Those of us who […]

Oct. 13 2011

Opera: it’s grand, indeed.

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Ding! Now that’s music to my ears. It’s the sound of the bell James Harp, Artistic Director & Chorus Master of Lyric Opera Baltimore, keeps on his piano in an upstairs room at St. Mark’s Lutheran Church. The bell is of the sort one might ring for service at a deli counter, but here, its […]

Sep. 17 2011

Welcome!

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Hello and welcome to WBJC’s brand-new website! As an Internet junkie, I’m very excited about our new site and the station’s recent forays into social media. If you’re on Twitter and/or Facebook, please join us there; the more fans and followers we have, the merrier. The debate about how to make classical music more “relevant” […]

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