

Idyllwild Arts debuts talent in new song writing concentration
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Corwin Zekley (left), Elias Sedmayr (at piano) and Michaela Gradstein, all featured songwriters, perform at the Dec. 5 Stephens Recital Hall launch of the new music department concentration in songwriting. Photo courtesy of Idyllwild Arts


Grammy-nominated jazz singer Denise Donatelli knows how to caress a lyric so that you feel the story in the song — the happiness, the ache, the sadness and the soul. “A dark, enchanting voice, an intuitive ability to tell a musical story, and ineffable rhythmic drive — all the qualities one looks for in a…
The Idyllwild Arts Academy Theatre Department’s next production intertwines mythology and contemporary history to address the complex and ever-present issue of war. Ellen McLaughlin’s “Ajax in Iraq” takes on the eternal conflict — war — and opens up issues such as leadership and soldiers’ responsibilities. McLaughlin’s script presents two pictures of war. The relationship between…
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Mountain Pottery will be hosting an event to create clay beads to represent each of the 7,209 deaths that have occurred in the last 20 years among migrants crossing the southwestern border of the United States. The beads will be incorporated into a work of art made by Cannupa Hanska Luger at the Mesa Contemporary…
Tom Nolan, JPL public outreach speaker, came to Pasadena’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory during the 1997-98 El Niño. As a marine biologist, he has watched how climate-change cycles have spawned ocean-influenced weather patterns. He will be guest speaker at AstroCamp on Thursday, Nov. 12, discussing the upcoming El Niño, predicted to equal or eclipse the 1997-98…