By UM News
02-17-2021
Tania León has been named the 2021 Distinguished Composer-in-Residence for the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami.
Ms. León who hails from Havana, Cuba, is highly regarded as a composer, conductor, educator, and advisor to arts organizations. We are extremely pleased to welcome Tania León as our 2021 Distinguished Composer-in-Residence, stated Charles Mason, Chair, Department of Theory and Composition. She follows a long line of Distinguished Composers-in-Residence at Frost who are the most highly regarded composers and teachers of composition of our time. This opportunity for our students to study with a composer of her stature distinguishes the Frost School as one of the few in the nation to provide enriched opportunities beyond the already great experiences working with its composition faculty.
BraytonHughes Design Studios Creates Canopy by Hilton in Baltimore
February 17, 2021
Inside the new Canopy by Hilton in Baltimore. Photography by Durston Saylor.
When last we met up with Kiko Singh, BraytonHughes Design Studios principal, it marked the opening of the Grand Hyatt at SFO. That was March and the beginning of the COVID-19 lockdown. In the unprecedented year since, Singh and the firm have kept busy. Taking the studio 3,000 miles cross country, Canopy by Hilton, a recent project, gives folks another reason to visit Baltimore. The hotel coupled with the city’s lively waterfront (come post-pandemic), its century-old, still operational Domino Sugar factory, and crab cakes, of course.
Hope College Theatre to Present “Detroit ’67” on Feb. 26-28, March 4-6
February 11, 2021 by Emma Walilko
Hope College Theatre to Present “Detroit ’67” on Feb. 26-28, March 4-6
The Department of Theatre at Hope College will present six performances of “Detroit ’67” via livestream between Friday, Feb. 26, and Saturday, March 6.
The department will stage the play on Friday-Saturday, Feb. 26-27, at 7:30 p.m.; Sunday, Feb. 28, at 2 p.m.; Thursday, March 4, at 7:30 p.m.; Friday, March 5, at 8:30 p.m. and Saturday, March 6 at 7:30 p.m.
Virtual tickets are free and open to all but pre-registration is required via tickets.hope.edu. Out of an abundance of caution due to the ongoing global COVID-19 pandemic, there
Did You Know? - Dixieland Wednesday, January 20, 2021 - by Jerry Summers
In the recent civil rights movement “Black Lives Matter” it is often overlooked about where the term “Dixieland” originated.
Some think that it was in reference to the imaginary division of the Mason-Dixon line which separated the free and the slave states prior to the Civil War which had been surveyed by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon between 1763 and 1767 in an effort to resolve a border dispute between the four states of Maryland, Pennsylvania, Delaware and West Virginia (which had been a part of Virginia until 1863).
In reality the term arose from the word, “Dixie” which was what Southerners called a French ten-dollar bank note used in New Orleans that was already in existence in 1859 when Daniel Emmet, a northern black man (African American), although others have also claimed its creation, wrote and introduced a song he named “Dixie” which became the South’s nickname and “s