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Our Lives Have Changed: Ludington family manages through COVID childcare constraints

This is the second story in our series, “Our Lives Have Changed” about how the COVID-19 pandemic has re-shaped life in northern Michigan. Even before COVID-19 spread through Michigan, 30-year-old Ludington resident Katie Workman and her husband, Mike, were looking for someone to watch their kids.

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Classical IPR in Concert: The Lesson of the Lark

By Amanda Sewell • 8 hours ago

Composed by Jeffrey Cobb and with text by Laura Knight Cobb, "The Lesson of the Lark" celebrates the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment and women's right to vote.

The piece received its world premiere performance online last month.

The Northwestern Michigan College Choirs joined narrator Laura Knight Cobb and soloists Laura Osgood Brown and Kaylen Wheeler-Gooden for the performance.

A jazz orchestra included NMC music faculty and friends.

Kids Commute - Treemonisha Week!

By Kate Botello • 15 hours ago

This week on Kids Commute, we'll hear Scott Joplin's (almost) lost opera, "Treemonisha!"

Follow along Monday through Friday at 7:40 a.m., or listen any time at the links below. We'll have a new Quizlet for you this week, too!

Our cast this week:

Gunther Schuller conducts the Houston Grand Opera and Chorus.

ZODZETRICK: Ben Harney
MONISHA: Betty Allen
NED: Willard White
TREEMONISHA: Carmen Balthrop
LUCY: Cora Johnson
REMUS: Curtis Rayam

Outdoors: Unconsidered trifles

By Coggin Heeringa • 17 hours ago

In Shakespeare’s "A Winter’s Tale," Autolycus is a rogue, "a snapper-up of unconsidered trifles."

Autolycus was a thief.

Noticing that some birds often snap up unconsidered trifles, British ornithologists, remembering their Shakespeare, called the behavior "autolycism."

Our Lives Have Changed: Ludington family manages through COVID childcare constraints

By Taylor Wizner • Jan 19, 2021

This is the second story in our series, “Our Lives Have Changed” about how the COVID-19 pandemic has re-shaped life in northern Michigan.

Even before COVID-19 spread through Michigan, 30-year-old Ludington resident Katie Workman and her husband, Mike, were looking for someone to watch their kids.

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Listen now: Hygge

By Amanda Sewell • Jan 19, 2021

"Hygge" is the Danish word for a lifestyle concept that embraces coziness, warmth and familiarity.

Interlochen Public Radio has created an on-demand playlist of classical music that evokes the concept of hygge.

What Is The Sound Of Grief? Osvaldo Golijov Puts It To Music

By Anastasia Tsioulcas • Jan 18, 2021

Osvaldo Golijov is a MacArthur "genius" composer who's written for Yo-Yo Ma, Kronos Quartet and soprano Dawn Upshaw. But in 2012, he was accused of plagiarism, and he disappeared from the scene. Only now, nearly a decade later, is Golijov reemerging — with a work that could not have a more timely subject: it's a meditation on grieving and loss.

Repose playlists for the week of January 18, 2021

By Frank Slaughter • Jan 18, 2021

Join Classical IPR every weeknight at 10 p.m. for an hour of Repose. New episodes air every Saturday at 10 p.m. See this week's weeknight playlists below.

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Timothy Crane - Sylvan Grove

Joe Bongiorno - First Love

Kim Robertson - Flamorgan's Aire

Wind Machine - Journey Home

Helen Jane Long - Embers

Secret Garden - Adagio

Mars and the Miracle Star: this week on the Storyteller's Night Sky

By Mary Stewart Adams • Jan 18, 2021

Mars meets Uranus during the first quarter Moon on Wednesday, January 20th, and though we usually describe the planets in relation to the zodiac, I want to talk about the stars lying beneath them right now, which are those of Cetus, the whale, a seemingly unremarkable patch of sky that is related by ancient astrology to impulses arising from the collective unconscious, impulses that are either of great insight, or of chaos.

Music by Request for January 16, 2021

By Nancy Deneen • Jan 16, 2021

Classical IPR listeners shared patriotic selections on this week's program, along with pieces from musicals, opera excerpts and folk songs.

Requests included music by Judith Weir, Aaron Copland, Antonín Dvořák, Dobrinka Tabakova and Gaetano Donizetti.

Requesters also asked for specific performances by Canadian Brass, Susan Graham, 2Cellos and Sissel Kyrkjebø.

Ritter sentenced to minimum of 16 months for abuse of power

By aaron selbig • Jan 15, 2021

A former jail administrator in Grand Traverse County is headed to prison after receiving a minimum of 16-months in jail for embezzlement and neglect of duty.