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Arts Around Town: Andrew Barlow's having 'Blast!' with touring company

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:20:44 -0800
Andrew Barlow wants to come back to the classroom, but right now he's marching to the beat of a different drum as percussion swing manager for the current tour of the Tony Award-winning "Blast!" The Allentown resident, former assistant band director at Wilson Area High School in Northampton County, auditioned last year for the "once-in-a-lifetime opportunity" of touring the country and abroad ...
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Two Hartford Schools Get New Leadership in Administrative Shakeup

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:40:54 -0800
Follow Your Town News On The Courant's Hartford Facebook Page In an administrative shakeup, Timothy Sullivan Jr., the principal of Classical Magnet School, has been transferred to the Latino Studies Academy at Burns, where he has been assigned to take over one of the city's lowest-performing schools effective Monday.
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Arcadia University Opens Mediterranean Center for Arts and Science for Study Abroad Students

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:04:17 -0800
The College of Global Studies continues to expand its International Educational reach across the world with the opening of a Center in Siracusa, Sicily.
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Marin Alsop Leads the BSO in Multimedia Production, Voices of Light, March 2-4; Rare Performance Brings Live Soloists ...

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:16:37 -0800
Music Director Marin Alsop will lead the BSO and Baltimore Choral Arts Society in Richard Einhorn’s large-scale, multimedia work Voices of Light – The Passion of Joan of Arc on Friday, March 2 at 8 p.m. and Sunday, March 4 at 3 p.m. at the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall and Saturday, March 3 at 8 p.m. at the Music Center at Strathmore.Baltimore, Md. (PRWEB) January 27, 2012 Marin Alsop Leads the ...
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A&I Continues Season With A Film About Legendary Environmentalist

Sun, 15 Jan 2012 15:01:21 -0800
Legendary environmentalist Aldo Leopold will be the subject of a full-length high definition film—narrated by author Curt Meine—that will continue the 2011-12 season of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s Arts & Issues series Feb. 2 and 3.Edwardsville, IL (PRWEB) January 15, 2012 Legendary environmentalist Aldo Leopold will be the subject of a full-length high definition film—narrated by ...
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Robert Hecht, Antiquities Dealer, Dies at 92

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:41:37 -0800
Mr. Hecht, who sold the Euphronius krater to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1972 for $1.3 million, was long suspected of illegal trafficking in looted artifacts.
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Ancient texts will spark discussion, organizer says

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 02:25:48 -0800
Barbara Parker, director of programs at Piedmont Arts Association, knows that an art museum is not where most military veterans turn if they’re dealing with post-traumatic stress disorder or other psychological effects of war.
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Media and the music

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 08:05:40 -0800
The importance of media in promoting Indian classical music was highlighted at the recent two-day seminar in Mumbai.
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Vital signs

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 09:27:23 -0800
New World’s Pulse and other experiments aim to infuse classical music’s aging audience with fresh blood
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Reinventing Icicle Creek: Arts organization awarded $80,000, launches new programs

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:05:13 -0800
LEAVENWORTH — Icicle Creek Center for the Arts announced three major developments Thursday: The launch of three new programs, plans to break ground on a new theater this spring and The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation granting the arts organization $80,000 for market research. It’s all part of the non-profit’s reinvention of itself as an all-encompassing arts hub, executive director Sheila Hughes ...
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