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Cotton Candy, the movie featured Howard’s
American Graffiti co-star Charles Martin Smith.
62. Erica Abi Wright is better known to music fans as Erykah Badu. Her original stage name was Apples, one half of the hip-hop duo the Def Ones, while attending Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts.
63. The Old 97’s make an appearance (and serve as a fairly major plot point, in the 2006 film
The Break-Up. Producer and star Vince Vaughn is a noted longtime fan of the 97’s. Their “Timebomb” was used in his 1998 movie
Clay Pigeons.
64. KNON was the first radio station to play hip-hop in Dallas.
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After dingers and good pitching showed the Yankees a winning recipe last night, they smartly cooked with those same ingredients tonight.
From the start, Dean Kremer was fooling no one. DJ LeMahieu led off the game with a 106-mph line drive. Giancarlo Stanton followed by ripping a ball a ridiculous 119 mph to Orioles third baseman Maikel Franco, who promptly turned it into a beautiful double play. Of course. Gleyber Torres followed that with his second two-bagger in the last two games. Gio Urshela struck out to end the frame, but the hard contact was a harbinger.
Bard SummerScape Announces Live Programming With a Concert Directed by Daniel Fish, a Pam Tanowitz World Premiere & More
Additional programming includes “Black Roots Summer curated by Michael Mwenso and Jono Gasparro & a commissioned concert from Mx. Justin Vivian Bond.by Chloe Rabinowitz
Bard Summerscape is returning to live performance with a wide-ranging and adventurous lineup this summer. Staged for limited in-person audiences, the 2021 season presents the 31st Bard Music Festival, Nadia Boulanger and Her World, which pays tribute to one of the most important female figures in classical music history; the first fully staged American production of King Arthur (Le roi Arthus), the only opera by Boulanger s compatriot and near-contemporary Ernest Chausson; the world premiere of I was waiting for the echo of a better day, a major new dance commission from Bard s Fisher Center Choreographer-in-Residence Pam Tanowitz and Sphinx Medal of Excellence-winning composer Jessie Mon
Most Happy, a new concert of Frank Loesser s opera
The Most Happy Fella for seven female and nonbinary vocalists, will be presented this summer as part of Bard SummerScape.
Originally scheduled for a 2020 premiere,
Most Happy will be staged as a concert August 5-7 on the Stage at Montgomery Place.
Most Happy is directed by Daniel Fish, who helmed the recent Tony-winning Broadway revival of
Oklahoma!, which also originated at Bard College. The seven vocalists will be backed by a 13-piece instrumental ensemble.
Based on Sidney Howard s play
They Knew What They Wanted,
The Most Happy Fella is the story of an Italian-American vineyard owner having a long-distance love affair with a much younger woman.