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DPTV.org: National Book Festival Prime-Time Special, Hosted by LeVar Burton - Premieres Sunday at 6 p.m. ET on Detroit Public TV and PBS stations across the country 

LeVar Burton www.variety.com Premieres Sunday at 6 p.m. ET on Detroit Public TV and PBS stations across the country  For the second consecutive year, Detroit Public TV and PBS Books are partnering with the Library of Congress to produce a primetime special, “Open a Book, Open the World,” for the National Book Festival. It premieres this Sunday on PBS stations across the nation. LeVar Burton will serve as host of the hour-long program, highlighting the remarkable lineup of authors, poets and writers at the 2021 Library of  Congress National Book Festival. The program will offer a timely celebration of the power of books and discussions on some of the major topics of the day. Books have been a lifeline for so many of us during this most difficult year. They have offered us an escape from […]

LeVar Burton www.variety.com Premieres Sunday at 6 p.m. ET on Detroit Public TV and PBS stations across the country  For the second consecutive year, Detroit Public TV and PBS Books are partnering with the Library of Congress to produce a primetime special, “Open a Book, Open the World,” for the National Book Festival. It premieres this Sunday on PBS stations across the nation. LeVar Burton will serve as host of the hour-long program, highlighting the remarkable lineup of authors, poets and writers at the 2021 Library of  Congress National Book Festival. The program will offer a timely celebration of the power of books and discussions on some of the major topics of the day. Books have been a lifeline for so many of us during this most difficult year. They have offered us an escape from […]

The historian François Furstenberg takes an almighty kick at the overpaid suits that run our universities. My university, Johns Hopkins,...

#ClassicalMusic Today October 17, 2015 

[…] was one profoundly influenced Howells’ later work. 1 In 1905 Alexander Glazunov’s Violin Concerto was premiered with soloist Mischa Elman, at Queen’s Hall, London. In 1941 William Schuman’s Symphony No. 3 was premiered by the Boston Symphony with Serge Koussevitzky conducting. In 1944 Aaron Copland’s “Letter from Home” premiered on the Paul Whiteman radio broadcast “Music Out of the Blue.” In 1958 Igor Stravinsky’s “Epitaphium in memory of Prince Max Egon zum Fürstenberg, was premiered at the Donaueschingen Festival in Germany. In 1988 Christopher Rouse’s “Artemis” for brass quintet was premiered by The Brass Ring at Yale University, New Haven, Conn. In 1991 Wayne Peterson’s “Face of the Night, The Heart of the Dark” for orchestra was premiered by the San Francisco Symphony, David Zinman conducting. This work won the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1992. In 1996 Peter Lieberson’s “Fire” was premeiered by the […]