Filmmaker Jennifer Kramer’s entry in this year’s Idyllwild International Festival of Cinema (IIFC) has a connection to Idyllwild, having been filmed here. Nominated in eight categories, the film showcases Kramer’s versatility as auteur: writing, directing, acting, composing and performing the score. Although passed over by this year’s judges, Kramer said, “just being nominated in eight…
Idyllwild Arts Academy bassoonist Preston Atkins, who was featured in last week’s Town Crier, is a semifinalist in The Music Center’s 34th annual Spotlight program, a free performing arts competition, scholarship and artistic development program for teens. The Los Angeles program recognizes and rewards all participants throughout the competition with a range of benefits such…
The Monday, March 7 conversation with Ron McCurdy on the Idyllwild Arts campus at 7:30 p.m., followed at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 8 by the Ron McCurdy Quartet’s jazz performance in William M. Lowman Concert Hall, are representative of the efforts outgoing Idyllwild Arts Academy (IAA) Head Marianne Kent-Stoll made to promote racial justice in…
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…
The Lula Washington Dance Theatre (LWDT) will be livestreamed at 11 a.m. Friday, Feb. 25. It is merely the publicly accessible part of a much bigger and more ambitious annual Art in Society (AIS) Symposium at Idyllwild Arts. Register to attend at https://idyllwildarts.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Rs0-mxXDTDq_0q7iUCEpIA. Founded in 1979 in inner city Los Angeles by Lula and Erwin…
Marshall Hawkins, popular and renowned in Idyllwild as jazz bass musician, teacher and human being, received an honorary doctor of music performance degree Friday night from California Baptist University (CBU) in Riverside where, with Director of Jazz Studies and professor Dan St. Marseille, he co-led the CBU Jazz Ensemble together with Hawkin’s own Seahawk Modern…
This Thursday’s Idyllwild Arts Academy (IAA) Songwriting Concert, from 7:30 to 9 p.m., presents an excuse to mention an appointment that may have flown under the radar last fall: Kasaan Hammon’s promotion to assistant chair of IAA’s Music Department. Hammon has brought “exceptional efficiency and problem-solving skills” as well as “warmth and humor” to her…
David JeromeCorrespondent Local author and artist Ron Singerton, approaching his 80th birthday, is celebrating the release of a new historical novel, “The Refused,” available now on Amazon (and receiving reviews that must make the writer proud.) Hill residents may know him from his long and continuing involvement with the Art Alliance of Idyllwild and his…
Molly Cozens, president of the local Philanthropic Educational Organization (PEO) chapter, heard in August that the U.S. Capitol Christmas tree was coming from Eureka. “… there was a suggestion to send handmade ornaments, with a suggestion they be made of natural resources from our state,” she said. The PEO requisitioned Denise Van Herpen of The…
The Rustic Theatre presents Kathy Garver at 6:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 10, in a staged reading of Truman Capote’s classic short story “A Christmas Memory.” Garver will then do a question-and-answer period with a meet-and-greet book signing with wine and cheese after the reading. This is the 55th anniversary of “Family Affair” in which Garner…
