Looking for Light in 2021
Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack, a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in. Leonard Cohen, Anthem
The Not A Lotta Yachta Regatta
Three years ago this weekend I watched a weary band of sailors in Coral Bay, St. John, pull off an extraordinary feat. They held their annual Thanksgiving regatta, just weeks after being decimated by Hurricanes Irma and Maria, two back-to-back …
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We (Don’t) Gather Together
Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is. Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea Happy Thanksgiving.
#WishIWasThere
Wish you were heading to a concert in the park in these waning days of summer? Or an all-day music festival on the waterfront? Or a baseball game? Or even your cousin’s stepson’s wedding? So do the event planners, caterers, …
Women Are On Stage, At the Podium, and In the Repertoire
Concert halls may be closed, but the music plays on. Throughout the COVID pandemic, The Philadelphia Orchestra has been offering free streaming of past live performances, as well as specially curated concerts featuring musicians playing from home. This week’s offerings …
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Rite of Spring
A little Seamus Heaney on this first day of spring. Rite of Spring by Seamus Heaney So winter closed its fistAnd got it stuck in the pump.The plunger froze up a lump In its throat, ice founding itselfUpon iron. The …
Where Liberty Dwells
“Where liberty dwells, there is my country.” — Benjamin Franklin Happy Fourth of July!
Behind the Scenes 2018-19 Season
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. –Berthold Auerbach The performing arts have always been a vital part of our lives and now, with re:Write, we are fortunate to have as clients some of the world’s …
Hurricane Irma–One Year Later
Everybody here on St. John is talking about the weather. There’s something out there. It’s not Florence, or Gordon. It doesn’t even have a name yet, isn’t technically a storm, but it’s out there, coming off the coast of Africa, …
To Bigotry No Sanction
“For happily the Government of the United States, which gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance, requires only that they who live under its protection should demean themselves as good citizens…” –President George Washington, to the Hebrew Congregation …