Former Sen. Ted Stevens dies in plane crash
A single-engine plane carrying former Sen. Ted Stevens crashed into a remote Alaska mountainside, killing the state's most beloved political figure and four others and stranding the survivors on...
View ArticlePlanet Opera: Fairbanks, Alaska, Where Opera is a Force of Nature
FAIRBANKS — On my first night in Alaska I heard the cry of the loon. As I sat by the bank of the Chena River wondering if the summer sun would ever fully set (it did not), I could hear the splashing of...
View ArticleJohn Luther Adams Channels Nature's Savage Beauty
Though the music of John Luther Adams may flash superficial ties back to minimalism – a spare, cell-fragment melody often kicks off a work or a movement, as in the early Adams piece Songbirdsongs – the...
View ArticleLisa Moore Presents Pan-Pacific Piano
Summer means light, leaves and the ocean. June on Hammered! begins with an exploration of composers with Pacific Ocean roots and sensibilities, with music inspired by the Pacific rim – the “ring of...
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