Tuesday, November 18, 2008

November 18, 2008 - Venangoland, Citizens of the Year, and Linda Henderson

While I was not blogging last week, Pete Greene was hard at work over at Venangoland with posts on, among other things life without TV and some video footage of the Silver Cornet Band.




The deadline for submitting a nomination for the Venango Area Chamber of Commerce Citizen of the Year has been extended to Monday, December 1, 2008. More information and nomination forms are available at the Venango Area Chamber of Commerce office at 41 Main Street in Oil City. Or call 814-676-8521. Please consider nominating someone involved with the local arts.




Linda Henderson, operator of Oil City's Latonia Theatre showed up in WICU's coverage of the local opposition to California's passage of Prop 8.




The Allegheny College Wind Symphony and Wind Ensemble, under the direction of Lowell Hepler, will present a free concert on Sunday, Nov. 23 at 3:15 p.m. in Shafer Auditorium.

Sunday's program will include a wide variety of music written or transcribed for symphonic band: “Italian in Algiers Overture” by Rossini, “English Folk Song Suite” by Ralph Vaughan Williams and “Sanctuary” by Frank Ticheli, as well as Harbinson's “River Songs of the South” and Schmidt's “Adoration.” The program will conclude with Henry Fillmore's “The Crosley March.”




Free and Legal Downloads:

Very Best of Naxos Early Music (full album)

Over the Rhine Live at Majestic Theatre on November 15, 2008

This Is How I Roc: 2008 Yep Roc Label Sampler (full album)

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