TTC_01_20_21_Vol.17-No.13

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January 20, 2021
Community
Writers On A
New England
Stage presents
Rebecca
Carroll’s memoir
‘Surviving the
White Glaze’- a
virtual event
Portsmouth — On Tuesday,
February 2 at 7pm,
award-winning author, podcast
host, and cultural critic
Rebecca Carroll will present
her memoir ‘Surviving the
White Glaze’ from The (Portsmouth)
Music Hall’s virtual
stage as part of the Writers
on a New England Stage series,
now being presented in
an intimate, online format.
She will discuss her stirring
and powerful new memoir
recounting her painful struggle
to overcome a completely
white childhood in rural New
Hampshire, in order to forge
her identity as a Black woman
in America.
The 7pm event includes an
author presentation followed
by a literary conversation
with Peter Biello, host of New
Hampshire Public Radio’s
broadcast of All Things Considered
and The Bookshelf
from NHPR, an ongoing segment
featuring authors from
around New Hampshire and
the region. The event will be
hosted on Crowdcast.
Rebecca has been the host
of the podcast Come Through
with Rebecca Carroll, a cultural
critic at the public media
station WNYC, and a critic
at large for the Los Angeles
Times. Her personal essays,
cultural commentary, profiles,
and opinion pieces have appeared
in The Atlantic, The
New York Times, The Guardian,
Essence, New York magazine,
Ebony, and Esquire,
among other publications. She
is the author of several interview-based
books about race
and blackness in America, including
the award-winning
Sugar in the Raw.
The ticket package for the
event is $5. In addition to access
to the livestream, the ticket
package includes a virtual author
discussion and audience
Q&A. Books and tickets can
be purchased online by visiting:
https://www.themusichall.org/events/rebecca-carroll-livestream/
or through
the B2W Box Office over the
phone at 603-436-2400.
This award-winning author
series, launched in 2005, has
presented such celebrated
writers as Margaret Atwood,
Stephen King, United States
Supreme Court Justice Sonia
Sotomayor, Dan Brown, David
McCullough, Judy Blume,
Tom Brokaw, and Jodi Picoult
all on stage at The Music
Hall’s Historic Theater in
downtown Portsmouth, NH.
Each literary evening features
an author presentation followed
by an onstage interview
with a New Hampshire Public
Radio host. Live music is performed
by the award-winning
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Portions of these literary conversations
are rebroadcast on
New Hampshire Public Radio.
The Writers on a New England
Stage series is a partnership
between The Music Hall
and New Hampshire Public
Radio.
Pianist Qing
Jiang to perform
virtual solo
concert in
Newburyport
Pianist Qing Jiang will perform
on Sunday, Jan. 31, at 4
p.m. at the Unitarian Church,
26 Pleasant St., Newburyport,
the first of four concerts in the
2021 Jean C. Wilson Music Series.
Due to the pandemic this
year, the series will be virtual for
the very first time.
The concert will be live
streamed from the church sanctuary,
as will the three to follow,
every two weeks through to
Sunday, March 14.
“You can see it at exactly the
same time as it’s occurring,” said
John Mercer, member of the
Jean C. Wilson Music Series,
“or for a limited time after the
concert. The concerts will not be
pre-recorded and edited so this
will be as close as we can get to
the excitement and immediacy
of a live concert.”
The other concessions to the
pandemic will be the kind of
music played and the need to
keep the musicians safe as they
perform. All four concerts will
be solo performances.
“This will be Qing’s second
appearance at The Wilson Series,
the first having been in
2019, when she and Gwen Krosnick
appeared together,” Mercer
said. “The response to Qing’s
playing was very positive. She’s
a highly dynamic player, a really
big player . . . a tiny little woman
with a great big sound.”
Praised by the New York
Times as a “fiery musician”
whose playing is “vigorous and
passionate,” Qing has chosen to
play works by Ravel, Dvorak,
Burleigh, Chopin, Adès, Albéniz,
and Temkin.
The series will continue with
cellist Gwen Krosnick on Feb.
14, organist Raymond Hawkins
on Feb. 28, and harpsichordist
Sylvia Berry on March 14.
The Jean C. Wilson Music
Series is named for one of the
founders of the music series
and its director for many years.
Now, under the auspices of the
First Religious Society Unitarian
Universalist in Newburyport,
the series offers three or four
concerts each year during the
winter months.
This year concertgoers will receive
links to the performances
and, if they wish, email reminders.
For further information
about the concerts, to become
a sponsor, or to purchase tickets
for individual performances, go
to www.bit.ly/wilson_series.
U.S. Postal
Service
announced
several additional
stamps to be
issued
in 2021
WASHINGTON, DC —
Major League Baseball All-
Star Yogi Berra was widely
known for his colorful comments.
On January 15, he received
a new distinction as the
U.S. Postal Service announced
several additional stamps to
be issued in 2021 featuring
him, science fiction and fantasy
author Ursula K. Le Guin
and artist Emilio Sanchez.
Additionally, the Postal Service
commemorates sun science
and tap dance and issues
a new 2021 postcard featuring
an illustration of a mallard
drake.
All stamp designs are preliminary
and subject to
change. Additional details,
including issue dates, will be
announced later.
Community Announcements,
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