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Idyllwild Arts Chamber Orchestra members tune their instruments to the sound of the lead violinist prior to performing Jean Sibelius’ “Finlandia, Op. 26,” under the direction of conductor Joshua Roach as part of the 2011 Idyllwild Arts Summer program on Sunday, Aug. 21 at the IAF Theatre. Photo by Cid Castillo

The Town Crier asked families to share the creative projects they’d been working on while staying home. Here are some of the submissions sent in, including the short story “Snow Day.” Snow Day By Indigo Dagnall, 10 years oldContributed Ring, ring, ring, ring. Ugh, time to get up. I reached out my arm to…
Elyse Snyder is Idyllwild School’s new middle school mathematics teacher. It has only been a few years since she left graduate school, but her dedication to the educational profession and to Idyllwild students, specifically, cannot be questioned. Snyder lives in Banning! She has to take Highway 79 through Lamb Canyon, and then through Hemet to…
The Idyllwild Master Chorale embarks on its 36th season preparing for it’s annual Holiday Concert on Dec. 22 and 23. Rehearsals begin Oct. 2 in the music room at Idyllwild School and on each successive Tuesday evening from 7 to 9 p.m. until the concert. Singers interested in joining the Master Chorale are most welcome….
The Red Hot Rhythm Rustlers, Arizona imports, are award-winning practitioners of Western music — the music of the American West, composed by and about the people who worked and settled the western United States and Canada. The five-piece group appears next, Thursday, July 23, for Ken Dahleen’s Idyllwild Summer Concert Series. Directly related musically to…
Preston Atkins, 16, a senior bassoonist at Idyllwild Arts Academy (IAA) who hails from Cedar Falls, Iowa, is preparing for a number of concerto competitions. His bassoon teacher, Martin Kuuskmann, is professor of bassoon at the University of Denver Lamont School of Music, making the trek to Idyllwild once a month to work with IAA’s…
Amy Ephron, yes, that Ephron family, is the next author to speak at Eduardo Santiago’s Idyllwild Authors Series. She is the author of bestsellers “One Sunday Morning,” and “A Cup of Tea” that spent 37 weeks on the Los Angeles Times Bestseller list. Santiago will interview Ephron about her new collection of stories, “Loose Diamonds,…