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Connie Kupka, violin, Edith Orloff, piano, David Speltz, cello and David Peck, clarinet played Peter Schickele’s music written for those four instruments at the first concert of the Distinguished Artist Chamber Music at Idyllwild Arts last week. Photo by Sally Hedberg

Grupo Bohemio, popular Santana tribute band and percussive purveyor of hot Latin music, opens the 17th season of the Idyllwild Summer Concert at 7 p.m. Thursday, July 7. Bohemio, a big hit with ISCS regulars, returns for its fifth trip to the series — a fact certain to delight Idyllwild’s dancers. Based in the Coachella…
The debut of foreign films as a new category at Idyllwild CinemaFest 2013 is a sign of the increasing breadth of programming in the festival’s fourth year. Although the list of films selected won’t be public until Dec. 15, ICF Chairman Phil Calderone knows two particularly striking films will definitely screen — from Russia, “Siberie…
A week of master classes in Miami and chance to become Presidential Scholar Idyllwild Arts Academy senior music student Ben Champion is one of 171 finalists, out of a pool of 8,000 applicants nationwide, chosen in the 2018 National YoungArts Foundation’s annual search for top emerging young artists. Winners are chosen through a blind adjudication…
Soroptimist club honors local women, gets new member
The nonprofit Mountain Disaster Preparedness (MDP) has donated two automated external defibrillator (AED) units to the Idyllwild Community Center (ICC) for placement at Idyllwild Town Hall and Butterfield Amphitheater. Before moving off the Hill, volunteer MDP board member and Co-Chair Medical Director Dr. Dick Goldberg contacted ICC in May 2022 about emergency preparedness needs ICC…
The Seahawk Mojo will perform at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 18, at the IAF Theatre on the Idyllwild Arts Academy campus. Led by Idyllwild’s Marshall Hawkins, Seahawk and others will present the performance in honor of Black History Month. “This is a journey that started [with] last year’s performance,” Hawkins said. “It’s about what happened…