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I spent this workday morning at an event that was both somber and joyous – a memorial service for a member of the Wolf Trap family. Mary Frances Pearson founded Wolf Trap’s Institute for Early Learning Through the Arts in 1981, and she was a steadfast and enthusiastic fan of Wolf Trap, its education programs

On this day celebrating Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a link to a letter he sent to Sammy Davis, Jr. in December of 1960.    

A guest post from Lee Anne Myslewski When we talk about our little corner of the opera business, we like to point out that we’re different from many other companies. Sure, there are other young artist companies with great singers. There are folks who mount productions to feature their young artists. There are programs who

There’s a gem tucked away on the lower level of the Center for Education. Over the last few years, Wolf Trap’s music library grew from a place where I kept my own reference scores and recordings to an astonishing resource including (to date) over 9,700 catalogued items. The library is now housed in two rooms

Ah, January… I remember you! The sense of possibility, the lure of quiet(ish) days in the office in which to wrangle spreadsheets and think great thoughts. 2012 promises to be full of great music and exciting challenges. This week, Mahler and Copland share my piano rack with Jerry Lee Lewis and Hoagy Carmichael, as I

We’re busy furiously casting and planning for the 2012 opera season, and there’s not much I can say until the rest of the pieces fall into place. So I take this opportunity to welcome you to surf on over to a post by one of my alter egos. Has George Frideric surfaced again this Advent?

It was a wild ride, near the end of an epically and somewhat foolishly busy summer. I didn’t quite escape unscathed, as my fatigue caught up with me this week and laid me low with a nasty fever. There will be tough accounting to be done over the next weeks and months, and I’m not