In collaboration with the Evangeline Area Council Scouts of America, the ASO will premiere a commissioned work, The Legacy of Atchafalaya, written by composer Glenn McClure as tribute to the beauty and the people of Acadiana. The Symphony’s performance of this piece heralds the beginning of its three-year partnership with the Scouts, and highlights the Scout’s 100-year Atchafalaya preservation project initiated this year.
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Friday, September 27, 2019 at 8:00 pm Christuskirche, Darmstadt-Eberstadt, Heidelberger Landstraße 155 This concert is sponsored by the Hans Erich and Marie Elfriede Dotter Foundation More information about ESOC Chorus
Nov 25 There is no shortage of video games and conspiracy novels these days that carve out just enough of Dante’s Divine Comedy for the purpose of legitimizing the use of his name in the marketing plan. Among those things that many get wrong about Dante’s poem is the image of Hell as a place…
Nov 23 Since Great Britain and Norway have dominated Antarctic exploration, Thanksgiving, a signature American holiday, doesn’t have a long heritage here on the icy continent. Americans were preoccupied with a decade or more of pre-Civil War turmoil when James Clark Ross arrived here in the mid 19th century to the place that would eventually…
Nov 22 My friend Yuki Takahashi let me tag along today on his daily trip to the top of McMurdo called “Arrival Heights.” It was a pretty brutal place. Today, this snow covered, lunar landscape boasted sustained winds of about 30 mph and gusts up to 60 mph. Yuki monitors six projects for scientists all…
November 20, 2016 The temperature soared over the couple of days to the low 20s Fahrenheit and some snow started to melt in the warmer spots at McMurdo. Worries of tracking volcanic mud into the dorms were quickly forgotten as the temperature dropped and the snow arrived yesterday. The station is hunkered down today with…
Nov 17, 2016 I spent the day out on the snowmobiles with Elaine and fellow NSF Artist and Writer, Maris Wicks. Maris is a science cartoonist (www.mariswicks.com). While I was recording their voices, Maris was sketching. The Weddell seals make a wide range of sounds both above and below water. Everything from guttural growls and…