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A free speaker series in partnership with The Orion Amphitheater celebrating art, culture and self-expression! In recognition of May as Mental Health Awareness Month, conversations in this installation will explore the intersection of art and mental health.
WLRH is proud to once again host a porch during PorchFest. PorchFest takes place in Huntsville’s Five Points neighborhood hosted on a variety of neighborhood porches inviting the public to explore our amazing original music scene!
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From sparking the imagination to helping with mental health, listen to poems read by NPR readers and see how poetry has affected their lives.
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Katie Ledecky is used to getting medals, having earned 10 at the Olympics. But on Friday she received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest award a civilian can get from the U.S. government.
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Hicks was a communications director for the Trump White House and prosecutors questioned her on her knowledge of the deals made during his first presidential run.
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Siblings — especially twins — sometimes share the strangest traits, like throwing a ball with their head or picking up keys and crayons with their toes. Researchers want to know what's up with that.
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Huntsville poet Ginny Gilbert offers a look at the future if we're not mindful of our actions now.
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This edition of Brass, Reeds, and Percussion features music of the Danish organist and composer Dietrich Buxtehude, who lived from 1637 to 1707 and is considered one of the important composers of the 17th century. He was born in Holstein, Germany, which was actually part of Denmark at the time of his birth. Buxtehude influenced and was respected by other Boroque composers such as Georg Michael Telemann, Johann Sebastian Bach, and George Frideric Handel. Bach walked 250 miles to hear Buxtehude play. When Teleman and Handel visited him, Buxtehude tried to talk them into taking his job and marrying his oldest daughter. This edition features a wind-band arrangement of a Buxtehude organ toccata.
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Jiri Druschetzky was a Czech composer, oboe player, and timpanist who lived from 1745 to 1819. During his lifetime, the Czech Republic was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Druschetzky joined a band of an Austro-Hungarian infantry regiment and was stationed in a number of locations, including Vienna. He was a certified military drummer and eventually became the music director for a Hungarian nobleman who lived in Bratislava in what is today known as Slovakia. This was a time when noblemen typically had their own orchestras or at least a harmoniemusik, the German word used for the wind band from roughly 1775 to 1825. Druschetzky wrote symphonies, operas, and works for a variety of other musical groups. Today’s edition of Brass, Reeds, and Percussion features one of his partitas for harmoniemusik, which has parts for percussion.
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