

Photo by Becky Clark
Photos: Last week in Idyllwild: September 3, 2015
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Bruce Ryan, Building and Grounds Committee chair; Bill Lowman, past Idyllwild Arts president; Faith Raiguel, immediate past board chair; Pamela Jordan, Idyllwild Arts president; Lillian Lovelace, Board of Governors and Buzz Holmes, campaign co-chair, pose for a photo and sing some songs Saturday during the Groundbreaking Celebration of the William M. Lowman Concert Hall.
Janet Fitch’s mega-bestselling 1999 debut novel “White Oleander” makes her well qualified to lead the April 5 to 7 Spring Writers Retreat (idyllwildarts.org/spring-writers-retreat/) on the Idyllwild Arts campus. The course description promises an attempt to “reinforce participants’ connection with their creative sources, and explore aspects of craft,” and the craft that Fitch lavished on “White…
For the 2012 Jazz in the Pines, Ray Goren, jazz guitarist, returned with his own group. Yes, a 12-year-old prodigy guitarist heads up his own jazz quartet. And they love him. “When he’s playing, he’s great,” exclaimed bass Jamie Silverstein. “I don’t think of him as a 12-year-old.” In 2011, Goren played a few…
The ever-popular classical DJ of station KUSC, Rich Capparela, will be resuming his preconcert talks at the Faculty Chamber Music Concerts as part of the Idyllwild Arts Summer Program. The festival was put on hold for several years due to the economy, according to Steve Fraider, vice president of Idyllwild Arts and Director of…
The Idyllwild Community Center is preparing for the groundbreaking of Phase 1 construction next spring. After quietly raising more than $2.3 million for the new facility, the final leg of the fundraising efforts begins with the “Let’s Build it Concert” from 1 to 5 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 19, at Ferro. A minimum donation of $50…
Although she has it all — grace, intellect, talent and an international pedigree — theater and television actor Meg Wolf says she finds balance and happiness in being normal. Born in New Jersey to a father who worked internationally, Wolf — now an Idyllwild resident — spent her fifth birthday in Saudi Arabia, and fifth…