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Piano teacher a key change for Ugandan youths
Baltimore resident Amy Klosterman was a piano teacher at the Baltimore School for the Arts for 15 years, but her involvement with a youth band in Uganda started with a journey unrelated to music.
In the summer of 2007, she traveled to Uganda to do...Tags: Morgan State University, Loyola University Chicago, Uganda, Music, Baltimore School for the Arts
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Students honor 100-year-old teacher
It isn't unusual for students to remember the impact a teacher had on them well into adulthood, but on Saturday, many students of former Baltimore music teacher Lucille Marcus Brooks had an unusual opportunity to tell her — more than a half-...Tags: Cab Calloway, Coppin State University, Vocal Music (genre), Frederick Douglass, Music Industry
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Nora Ephron came to Baltimore for the movie, but she'd have stayed for the food
Nora Ephron was really all about the food. An acerbic observer of life whose wit translated so easily to the big screen, she was often as interested in the menu as she was in the script, and her appetite for moviemaking and crab cakes brought her to...
Tags: Tom Hanks, Rob Reiner, When Harry Met Sally (movie), Leukemia, Pies and Tarts
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Martha Jane Schneider, music teacher
Martha Jane Schneider, a piano teacher and church organist who had been a longtime resident of Cambridge, died June 24 of pneumonia at an assisted-living facility in Clemmons, N.C.
She was 92.
The daughter of a banker and a homemaker, Martha Jane...Tags: John Schneider , Pneumonia, New York City, Dorchester County, Marketing
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Men's group awards scholarships to Baltimore youth
Growing up in East Baltimore, Maurice Harried bore witness to the effect that poverty, drug abuse and broken families had on his life and on the lives of other youths in his neighborhood. "My grandmas raised me," says the 17-year-old, a recent graduate...Tags: Financial Aid, Columbia University, Baltimore Gas and Electric Co., Electronics, University of Maryland, College Park
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Opera star Denyce Graves joins Peabody Conservatory faculty
In terms of talent, glamour and wide appeal, few opera singers today rank as high as mezzo-soprano Denyce Graves. No wonder there's quite a buzz at the Peabody Conservatory, where Graves will join the voice faculty in the fall. People are still talking...
Tags: Opera (genre), Andrea Bocelli, Annapolis, Marian Anderson, Terence Blanchard
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10 awkward questions with ... the Valentonez
There's a lot you can do on Valentine's Day. There's the classic romantic dinner, the chocolate candy, the flowers.
There's crying as you watch "Love Actually" home alone (we've just heard about this one). How about a live serenade? The Valentonez are...Tags: R. Kelly, Occupy Wall Street, Newt Gingrich, Music, Music
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Betty G. Hocker, opera singer and composer
Betty G. Hocker, a retired Baltimore opera singer and composer who wrote the "Fort McHenry March" at the time of the nation's bicentennial, died Saturday of complications from dementia at Stella Maris Hospice.
The longtime Roland Park resident was 101....Tags: Opera (genre), World War II (1939-1945), Companies and Corporations, Alzheimer's Disease, Fort McHenry
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Edwin Roger Fitzgerald, Hopkins professor
Edwin Roger Fitzgerald, a retired professor had taught in the Johns Hopkins University's mechanics and materials department for nearly 40 years and whose hobby was farming, died May 11 of complications from a stroke at Gilchrist Hospice in Towson.
The...Tags: University of Wisconsin-Madison, Electronics, Colleges and Universities, Teaching and Learning, Teachers
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Harford Christian's 2012 graduation is school's largest ever
Even with the threat of tornadoes and severe weather, Harford Christian's 2012 Commencement carried on Friday evening with the largest graduating class in the school's history. Kicking off the evening was senior Vincent Wilson, who gave the welcoming...
Tags: College Sports, Colleges and Universities, College Baseball, Graduation, Cancer
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Carl Leo Dietrich
Carl Leo Dietrich, who had been chairman of the music department at what is now McDaniel College and later was a founder of the Columbia Orchestra, died May 24 of a fall at his Naples, Fla., home. The former Columbia resident was 85. "His influence of...Tags: Preakness Stakes, Judy Garland, Entertainment Events, Christmas, West Point
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Columbia Orchestra goes the American way
European composers still tend to dominate most classical music programs in the United States, but the Columbia Orchestra makes a case for our country in a program titled "American Inspirations."
Some of that American music is freshly minted, too, in...Tags: Entertainment Events, Music, Martha Graham, Howard Community College, Culture
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