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

Nov. 02 2016

Shriver’s Piatigorsky Memorial Concert

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The Shriver Hall Concert Series presents a program each season in honor of the great cellist, Gregor Piatigorsky, and this year they feature the Argentinian cellist Sol Gabetta with French pianist Bertrand Chamayou. Here is SHCS Executive Director Catherine Cochran with more.              

Oct. 29 2016

Anne Boleyn – she of the 1,000 days

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Lesley Malin, Managing Director of the Chesapeake Shakespeare Company, has assembled an all-woman production crew for the company’s production of Anne of the Thousand Days by Maxwell Anderson. Lesley came in to talk about the production.        

Oct. 28 2016

The music of Michael Hersh at St. David’s

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                      The St. David’s Music Series is presenting the world premiere of Michael Hersch’s only choral work From Ecclesiastes on the November First Friday Series, along with both of Hersch’s sonatas for unaccompanied ‘cello performed by Lavena Johanson. The Music Director of the series, Douglas Buchanan, came in to talk […]

Oct. 19 2016

SHCS welcomes ASMF Chamber Ensemble

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      In 1958, the late violinist and conductor Neville Marriner, who died earlier this month, founded the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields in London. This fall, we welcome the Academy Chamber Ensemble to Baltimore for the opening concert of the 2016-2017 Shriver Hall Concert Series. The Executive Director of SHCS Catherine Cochran […]

Oct. 15 2016

Matisse/Diebenkorn

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        The Baltimore Museum of Art is pairing the iconic French painter, Henri Matisse, with American painter, Richard Diebenkorn, in the largest exhibition of its kind to explore the influence that Matisse had on Diebenkorn. The curator is Katy Rothkopf, and she came to share her enthusiasm.           […]

Oct. 12 2016

“Friends and Rivals”

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          Pro Music Rara opens its next season on Sunday, October 16th. Their Board Chairman James Anthony came in to talk about the intriguingly titled opening concert.      

Oct. 08 2016

Brilliant Blunders on Booknotes

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        Charles Darwin, Lord Kelvin, Linus Pauling, Fred Hoyle, and Albert Einstein are scientific icons, so it’s easy to forget they were also humans – and, as we know from the saying,”to err is human.” Renowned astrophysicist and bestselling author Mario Livio has looked into some of their blunders.  

Oct. 03 2016

Baltimore debut for the Argus Quartet

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        The up-and-coming Argus Quartet is the Ensemble-in-Residence for the 2016-2017 music series at St. David’s in Roland Park. The Music Director of the series, Douglas Buchanan, is very excited to be hosting them.    

Sep. 28 2016

BCO and Rossini’s breakthrough opera

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                Baltimore Concert Opera is opening their 2016-2017 season with Rossini’s early opera seria, Tancredi. BCO’s Managing Director Courtney Kalbacker came in to talk about it.        

Sep. 10 2016

Beyond Riverdancing

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    There’s River Dance … and then there’s the wealth of other folk dances. Susan Tager is active in the Baltimore folk dance scene, and she came to share her passion.        

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