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Highlights include a residency from Sir Mark Elder, the return of the ‘Bach the European’ series and a performance of Dido and Aeneas
The Royal Academy of Music is to stream 25 free performances live on YouTube in the first half of the summer term (April and May).
Events launch with the Academy Symphony Orchestra performing the overture to Mozart’s
Don Giovanni, conducted by Sir Mark Elder, alongside music by Haydn and CPE Bach (13 April, 1pm). Elder’s residency ends later that week with a contrasting programme of Stravinsky, Arensky and Elgar (16 April, 1pm).
The ‘Bach the European’ series resumes with three Sunday concerts, each broadcast on Sundays from 12 noon and directed by Eamonn Dougan (18 April), Rachel Podger (25 April) and John Butt (9 May). The concerts examine Bach around the themes of arrangement, music for dukes and kings, and pieces by fellow Northern European composers.
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Anna Mae Vetter, 83, of New York Mills, has vivid memories of a ride she took in a cab from Chicago to Evanston, Ill., in 1943.
At 6 years old, little Anna Mae was increasingly having trouble walking. Trekking the long distance to school was eventually aided by her uncle carrying her. It was at first just brushed off as nothing serious. But not long after, she recalls sitting on her mother’s lap in that cab. In her mother’s embrace she remembers the cab driver picking on her about being such a big girl to still be sitting on her mother’s lap.
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Didi, an alternative to the likes of Uber, wants to encourage women to take up driving for the service by allowing them to restrict their services to other women, rejecting men who may need a ride. Many female DiDi drivers such as Elizabeth Kenny prefer to work during the day. Photo Patrick Woods / Sunshine Coast Daily. The business says fewer than 5 per cent of ride share drivers in Australia are women. Allowing female contractors to choose only to pick up women might make people more likely to sign up for the service.
Business by David McCowen  A growing ride-sharing service hopes letting female drivers choose the sex of their passengers will make the business more popular.
Didi, an alternative to the likes of Uber, wants to encourage women to take up driving for the service by allowing them to restrict their services to other women, rejecting men who may need a ride. Many female DiDi drivers such as Elizabeth Kenny prefer to work during the day. Photo Patrick Woods / Sunshine Coast Daily. The business says fewer than 5 per cent of ride share drivers in Australia are women. Allowing female contractors to choose only to pick up women might make people more likely to sign up for the service.
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