July 2022
Books & Arts
Behind the scenes at Eastern Music Festival On Monday evening, July 11, we will attend the rehearsal of the Eastern Festival Orchestra, led by the student conducting scholars in works by Weber, Rossini, Mendelssohn, Wagner, Brahms, Beethoven, Berlioz and Dvorák. This will be the first rehearsal of the scholars with the orchestra. The rehearsal is free. Scott Flavin, violinist with the Eastern Festival Orchestra and Resident Conductor for The Henry Mancini Institute of the Frost School of Music at the…
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Several of us are attending the traditional opera arias that are being held at Temple Emanuel on Wednesday July 13th at 6:00 and 8:00 p.m. If you would like to attend the 6:00 p.m. showing, we can go out to dinner afterwards. Please let Ronnie Grabon at rsgrabon@gmail.com know if you are planning on going. Just buy your tickets on the Eastern Music Festival website and we can plan to sit together.
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Books and Arts annual July Blowing Rock trip (not to be confused with the always fantastic Wild Women in the Mountains spring trip) will be July 21st to 24th. Preliminarily, we think we will be able to book the Springhaven Inn on Main Street and a condo at Chetola. We have stayed in the Springhaven Inn before and it is a charming old house without updated amenities but it has a great location. The Chetola condo will give us an…
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Eastern Music Festival Student conducting scholars will lead the Eastern Festival Orchestra in works by Weber, Rossini, Mendelssohn, Wagner, Brahms, Beethoven, Berlioz and Dvorák. Cost for the concert is “pay what you can.”
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