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

Sep. 07 2017

Odyssey’s fall offerings

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      This fall semester, the Odyssey program at Johns Hopkins University is offering everything from a perspective on South Africa to the appropriate question, “What makes us curious?” with Mario Livio. Here is Odyssey’s Director, Douglas Blackstone.                

Sep. 02 2017

Victorian poetry from faraway places on Booknotes

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    In his new book, due for release by Johns Hopkins University Press later this year, Jason Rudy suggests that the poetry of Victorian-era Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and Canada was vitally engaged in the social and political work of settlement in those countries.    

Aug. 14 2017

From Digital to Damask

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  The Maryland Institute College of Art professor and internationally exhibited fiber artist, Annet Couwenberg, is having an an intimate exhibition of 10 extraordinary works presented at the Baltimore Museum of Art from August through next February. The exhibition is called Annet Couwenberg: From Digital to Damask.      

Aug. 05 2017

Booknotes sings the blues

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              Don Lee is the author of a story collection and four novels. His latest novel, published by Norton this summer, is called Lonesome Lies Before Us, its title inspired by brooding lyrics of the alt-country movement.          

Jul. 11 2017

The BSO’s inaugural New Music Festival

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          This summer festival, co-curated by Marin Alsop and cellist, Inbal Segev, is taking place in three Baltimore venues – Peabody, Joe Squared, and the Meyerhoff – July 13-15. Here is Inbal Segev with more.    

Jul. 10 2017

The Impressionist painter with a flair for music

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  The exhibition, Frédéric Bazille and the Birth of Impressionism, which closed at the National Gallery of Art in D.C. yesterday, had an interesting music tidbit. Frédéric Bazille made this painting of his friend, Edmond Maître, in 1869. The curator’s note tells us that their shared love of music was the foundation of their friendship. […]

Jul. 08 2017

Booknotes gets in touch with it inner ink press

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Ink Press Productions in Baltimore is a collaborative project devoted to the community of book art. Its founders and curators are Tracy Dimond and Amanda McCormick, and they came to talk about their vision.                

Jul. 05 2017

The Baltimore Shakespeare Factory’s Dreams and Labours

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        The Baltimore Shakespeare Factory’s summer productions are A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Love’s Labour’s Lost. BSF Founding Artistic Director, Tom Delise, came to talk about them.          

Jun. 03 2017

The precious St. Francis Missal on Booknotes

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It was a pleasure to speak with three curators and conservators from the Walters Art Museum – Abigail Quandt, Head of Book and Paper Conservation, Lynley Anne Herbert, Assistant Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts, and Cathie Magee, post-graduate fellow in book conservation – about a project to conserve a manuscript of great historical significance. […]

May. 23 2017

Fall in Love with Music

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          George Marriner Maull, the Artistic Director of the Discovery Orchestra, is urging you to do just that — fall in love with music, that is — on a series being aired on public television.      

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