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The Idyllwild Arts Jazz Choir breaks into song wooing Tuesday nights audience with their melodic and upbeat jazz harmonies. From left to right: Elias Sedlmayr, Brian Shin, Luca Jacaruso, Nicolas Martin, Franny Freeman, Emily Jimenez, Alex Keller, and Erin Breen.




The Idyllwild Master Chorale presented “Nocturnes” Saturday evening, April 1, at the Idyllwild Arts’ Lowman Concert Hall. Dwight Holmes conducted the chorale, which was accompanied by Edwin Hansen. The first piece was Franz Joseph Haydn’s “Missa Brevis Sancti Joannis de Deo.” Later, they put music to poems from a variety of authors.
On Oct. 30, Idyllwild was inundated with trucks, equipment, and a film crew taking over the center of town for the filming of the FX television pilot of “The Old Man” starring Jeff Bridges. While the consensus was positive, some businesses suffered financially during the filming. “They closed the roads down and we didn’t get…
Fourth-grade students perform for a talent show last Wednesday morning …
The Friends of the Idyllwild Library are sponsoring the seminar series “Ernest Hemingway: His Literature, His Life, His Legend” as presented by Hemingway expert Nancy W. Sindelar. As of early Monday morning, 17 sign-ups for the four-part series have been recorded, and it is expected that by the initial session there will be several more…
The Crier sat down this week with Idyllwild Arts Academy (IAA) Film and Digital Media Chair Catalina Alcaraz-Guzman to discuss her recent Teacher of the Year award at the All-American Film Festival in New York City. The festival, now in its 10th year, is dedicated to high school film students and receives thousands of submissions…
Wordsmiths — poetic and lyrical — rejoice! Forums for your work are expanding to include Idyllwild Storytellers, a monthly series hosted by performing poet Brian Michael Tracy. This time-honored tradition places storytelling in all forms squarely in the center of an eclectic gallery at a time when spoken word and song craft have much to…