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This year’s season continues a tradition of bringing nationally-famous act and local favorites to the stage in Selbyville.
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The performances feature well-known American works like Aaron Copland’s “Fanfare for the Common Man,” alongside works by Delaware composers Brian Cox and Mark Hagerty.
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This week's Arts Playlist is just that - a playlist. To mark America's 250th birthday, Delaware Public Media's Martin Matheny reached out to some of the musicians he talks to for Arts Playlist throughout the year and asked them to choose one piece of American classical music for this - our America 250 playlist.Here's what Martin and some of the First State's top musicians assembled.
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The Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library opened an ambitious and wide-ranging exhibit telling the stories of its land and buildings, and the site's evolution from a private home to a center for scholarship and conservation.Called "At Home at Winterthur," the five-year exhibit brought together rarely seen objects from the site's centuries of history to mark Winterthur's 75th anniversary as a museum.And on this week's Arts Playlist, DPM's Martin Matheny spoke to Alexandra Deutsch, Winterthur's John L. and Marjorie P. McGraw Director of Collections.
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States who have enacted arts and culture districts have seen big impacts, creatively and economically.
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"The Thomas Crown Affair," "How to Steal a Million," "Ocean's 12" - art heists are a popular subject for films, TV, and books. A talk on Thursday, June 25, presented by the Biggs Museum of American Art brings two experts to Dover’s Schwartz Center for the Arts to talk about real-life art crimes.One of those experts is Robert Wittman, a former FBI special agent who founded the bureau's Art Crimes Team, and during his career helped recover hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of stolen art.On this week's Arts Playlist, Delaware Public Media's Martin Matheny spoke with Wittman about the real world of art crime and his career.
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The concert focuses on the history of Juneteenth and the importance of Black joy.
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At a committee workshop on Wednesday, committee members seemed to agree that doing more events was the key to getting members of the public more involved in their work.
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Summertime at Rehoboth Beach means a lot of things - a stroll on the boardwalk, a day enjoying the surf and sand, and the chance to see dozens of free concerts at the city's bandstand.To find out more about this summer's shows, DPM's Martin Matheny spoke to Rehoboth Bandstand Director Corey Groll on this week's Arts Playlist.
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The show, which premiered in 2005, is set in the ‘80s on Hollywood’s Sunset Strip, and features hits by Joan Jett, Bon Jovi, Poison, Def Leppard, Pat Benatar, and more.