TSD Review April 25

TownSquareLIVE Weekly Review – April 25, 2024

Sonja FreyTown Square Live, Weekly Review

This Week’s Top Headlines Include Advances in mammography among Breast Cancer Update topics UD breaks ground on $150M SABRE bio-pharma center Dela-brity Chef Robbie Jester is back on TV Updated state landlord/tenant guide could become law Appo’s referendum successful on second attempt Inside The Circle: Week 5 softball top 10 Click on the image below to view the PDF Sonja …

symphony music director finalist

Symphony readies for a season of music director tryouts

Betsy PriceCulture, Headlines

Audiences attending the Delaware Symphony Orchestra’s 2024-25 season will have a say in who is chosen as its new music director. The symphony’s 119th season will showcase the four finalists for the job: Mélisse Brunet, Filippo Ciabatti, Michelle DiRusso, and Taichi Fukumura,  Each will conduct a classical concert, and audience members will be surveyed afterward about how they thought the …

TSD Review Feb 29

TownSquareLIVE Weekly Review – February 29, 2024

Sonja FreyTown Square Live, Weekly Review

This Week’s Top Headlines Include 4 finalists named for Delaware Symphony’s music director job Agilent, Incyte seek way to predict effectiveness of drugs Delaware DOJ to appeal absentee, early voting ruling 12 finalists will compete for 2024 Poetry Out Loud title Wilmington Charter goes back-to-back, ties most wins in State Mock Trial Courtside View – Girls basketball first round playoff …

symphony music director finalist

4 finalists named for Delaware Symphony’s music director job

Betsy PriceCulture, Headlines

The Delaware Symphony Orchestra has invited four finalists to conduct the orchestra next year before it chooses a new music director from them in spring 2025. Up for consideration are Mélisse Brunet, Filippo Ciabatti, Michelle Di Russo and Taichi Fukumura. The search, which began in July 2023, drew 150 applications from around the world. A 13-member search committee, including community …

TSD Review Jan 18

TownSquareLIVE Weekly Review – January 18, 2024

Sonja FreyTown Square Live, Weekly Review

This Week’s Top Headlines Include DSO guest conductor chose a life of the baton in high school Children’s Theatre seeks its tribe to help mark 50 years Businesses: ACLU loitering lawsuit could affect our sales DelDOT has no plans to end its humorous road signs Smyrna Volleyball team is DSBA Team of the Year Click on the image below to …

Conductor

DSO guest conductor chose a life of the baton in high school

Betsy PriceCulture, Headlines

The guest conductor who will lead the Delaware Symphony Orchestra Friday plunged into music after a grammar school test showed he had an aptitude for it. A native of Durham, North Carolina, André Raphel said the schools then gave students a test to determine if they had a musical aptitude and an aptitude for playing a musical instrument. “It was …

TSD Review Aug 3

TownSquareLIVE Weekly Review – August 3, 2023

Sonja FreyTown Square Live, Weekly Review

This Week’s Top Headlines Include: Charges dropped in case of Christina grad arrested by UD Wilmington water bills going up. And up. And up. And up. Wilm U to add esports certificate to list of offerings The Graveyard, Saint Mark’s Spartan Stadium Click on the image below to view the PDF Sonja Frey

David Amado (Courtesy of Delaware Symphony Orchestra)

Delaware Symphony starts search for new music director

Betsy PriceCulture, Headlines

The Delaware Symphony Orchestra has  announced the search for its next music director, expected to begin work in the 2025-26 season. The process started with forming a 13-member search committee for the person who will succeed David Amado, who served as the symphony’s music director and conductor for 20 years before stepping aside and becoming music director laureate in the …

Delaware Symphony Orchestra season

DSO’s 23-24 season: guest conductors, John Williams salute

Betsy PriceCulture, Headlines

The Delaware Symphony Orchestra’s 2023-24 season will feature traditional classical programs interspersed with Hispanic and Latin-inspired works, a celebration of the music of John Williams and a chamber concert devoted to African music. Along the way, three guest conductors will handle baton duties when Music Director Laureate David Amado isn’t on the podium to open and close the season. “It’s …

DoMore24 Junior League of Wilmington Stand Up. Period.

DoMore24 starts tonight; help nonprofits you like raise $$$

Betsy PriceCulture, Headlines

Note: A version of this story ran last week If there’s a Delaware nonprofit you like, your donation to it today and tomorrow could help the organization win prize or matching money to stretch budgets. DoMore24 Delaware returns at 6 p.m. Thursday, March 2, and ends at 6 p.m. on Friday, March 3. In those 24 hours, 500 Delaware nonprofits …