Sep.
20
2018
District5 for the Davies Concert Series
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.
Judith Krummeck
Sep.
19
2018
Zukerman Trio opens Shriver season
The Shriver Hall Concert Series opens its 2018-2019 season — at Goucher’s Kraushaar Auditorium — with the Zukerman Trio playing Mozart, Arensky, and Beethoven. Here is the series’ Executive Director, Catherine Cochran.
Sep.
15
2018
Odyssey in the Fall
Johns Hopkins University’s Odyssey program begins on September 17th with its fall offering of more than fifty lifelong learning courses in art, science, music, photography, writing, and more. Here is the Program Director, Douglas Blackstone.
Sep.
11
2018
The 2018-2019 music series at St. David’s
The Music Series at St. David’s in Roland Park opens its new season on Sunday 16th with a feast for Hildegard von Bingen. Director of Music Ministries, Douglas Buchanan, came in to give an overview of the whole series.
Sep.
08
2018
Booknotes Out of Step
In his memoir, Out of Step, Anthony Moll tells the story of a working-class bisexual boy running off to join the army in the midst of two wars and the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” era. The book won the Non/Fiction Prize series from The Journal & The Ohio State University Press. […]
Aug.
25
2018
Ronn McFarlane and “The Celtic Lute”
Ronn McFarlane has released his first solo album in more than a decade. It features his arrangements of traditional Irish and Scottish folk music for the lute.
Aug.
08
2018
A relic of touch at The Walters
“I get these what I call ‘monk emergencies’ where I get this desperate phone call from downstairs at the front desk,” says Lynley Anne Herbert, Associate Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore. And the person at the front desk will tell her, “I have ten Franciscans here, […]
Aug.
04
2018
Catching up with the St. Francis Missal on Booknotes
A project lasting almost 18 months is winding down at The Walters Art Museum: the conservation of the St. Francis Missal. I caught up with the head of book and paper conservation, Abigail Quandt, curator of rare books and manuscripts, Lynley Anne Herbert, and postgraduate conservation fellow, Cathie Magee. […]
Jul.
24
2018
BSF explores the complex King John of England
For the first time in Baltimore since 1781, the Baltimore Shakespeare Factory will present Shakespeare’s rarely-performed thriller about a hapless king facing threats from outside and within. The BSF’s Founding Artistic Director is Tom Delise.
Jul.
07
2018
Booknotes revisits the Pratt Library
In Part II of the interview with Heidi Daniel, President and CEO of the Enoch Pratt Free Library, a game changing new initiative.
