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Judith is WBJC's afternoon host. Her full bio can be read here.

Nov. 06 2018

St. David’s commemorates the 100th Anniversary of the 1918 Armistice

By Judith Krummeck | Posted in Host Blogs, Interviews | Comments Off on St. David’s commemorates the 100th Anniversary of the 1918 Armistice

  Michael Rickelton’s Battle Songs will set the stage for the premiere of Andrew Maxfield’s choral setting of Eleanor Farjeon’s poem Peace as the St. David’s Music Series marks the 1918 Armistice. Douglas Buchanan is the Director of Music Ministries at St. David’s.    

Nov. 03 2018

In safe hands with suspense novelist, Dan Fesperman

By Judith Krummeck | Posted in Booknotes, Host Blogs | 2 Comments

  In his new novel, Safe Houses, Dan Fesperman balances history and suspense across decades as a young woman discovers a nefarious truth at the heart of the CIA’s operations in postwar Berlin.        

Nov. 01 2018

A rich reading of Shakespeare’s complicated “King John” at the Folger Theatre

By Judith Krummeck | Posted in Host Blogs | 2 Comments

    The first play I ever saw at the Folger Shakespeare Library’s fabulous Theatre in D.C. was Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia, directed by Aaron Posner, and I was enthralled by the utter dedication to the text and the clean linearity that Posner brought to this complicated play. Ever since, I have tried to get to […]

Oct. 29 2018

A music collective and a kitchen collective come together to celebrate immigrants

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      Pique Collective is a contemporary music ensemble that invites audiences of all ages and backgrounds to their performances in non-traditional venues. One of their core members, composer and guitarist Jeremy Lyons, talks about their forthcoming event, “Today I Welcome You. Tomorrow I Welcome You.”    

Oct. 18 2018

The BSO horn section strutting their stuff

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  What a spectacle! Four horn soloists at the front of the Baltimore Symphony stage for Schumann’s Konzertstück this weekend. I spoke to one of them: BSO’s Third Horn, Austin Larson.          

Oct. 17 2018

A debut and an old friend for SHCS next program

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  The next Shriver Hall Concert Series program pairs Pacifica Quartet with pianist Marc-André Hamelin for a program of works by Beethoven, Schumann, and Hamelin himself. Here is the series executive director, Catherine Cochran.    

Oct. 08 2018

Baltimore Musicales to honor Rosa Ponselle

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        Baltimore Musicales is marking the centennial of Rosa Ponselle’s 1918 Met debut with a concert at Peabody. Here is soprano and Executive Director, Thea Tullman Moore.        

Oct. 06 2018

A collection of quirky, elegiac vignettes on Booknotes

By Judith Krummeck | Posted in Booknotes, Host Blogs | 2 Comments

      Memoirist Marion Winik is about to launch her tenth book. It’s a sequel to her highly successful Glenrock Book of the Dead from ten years ago.        

Sep. 22 2018

The Embassy Series honors Nelson Mandela

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    The Embassy Series in D.C. will open its 25th Anniversary Season with a concert dedicated to the Centenary Celebration of Nelson Mandela at the Embassy of South Africa. The featured performer will be South African cellist, Jacques-Pierre Malan.    

Sep. 20 2018

District5 for the Davies Concert Series

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    The Davies Concert series in Prince George’s County is opening their season with a DC based woodwind quintet called District5. Here is Hiram Larew with more.    

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