See Oak Ridge mayor play at Rock to Bach Music Festival
Not every city has a mayor who plays a banjo in a band. Oak Ridge does. Mayor Tom Beehan and five other musicians are members of The Ridge City Ramblers. The band will perform at Oak Ridge’s third Rock...
View ArticlePipe organ featured at Oak Ridge Symphony concert
The pipe organ will be the featured instrument at the Feb. 2 Oak Ridge Symphony Orchestra concert at First United Methodist Church. Conducted by Maestro Dan Allcott, ORSO will perform “Incidental Music...
View ArticleRotary International president to speak in Oak Ridge at March forum
For the first time in many years, a Rotary International president will visit Oak Ridge on Friday and Saturday, Mar. 8-9. RI President Sakuji Tanaka of Japan will speak on “Peace through Service,” the...
View ArticleWhy is Rotary International president coming here?
For the second time since Rotary International was born in 1905 in Chicago, a sitting RI president will visit Oak Ridge. He will serve as keynote speaker and hear innovative ideas at the Oak Ridge...
View ArticleORCMA Coffee Concert features violin, piano, voice
“A Night of Violin, Vocal, and Piano Music” will be presented at 7:30 p.m. Sunday at First Presbyterian Church in Oak Ridge. This first free coffee concert of the Oak Ridge Civic Music Association...
View Article‘Dialogue with Dan’ on Monday
Dan Allcott, music director of the Oak Ridge Civic Music Association and conductor of the Oak Ridge Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, will speak at noon Monday in the lobby of the historic Grove Theater,...
View ArticleSaturday concert features music by two Tennessee composers, dulcimerist
Dan Allcott has been conducting research—and two professional orchestras: the Bryan Symphony Orchestra in Cookeville and Oak Ridge Symphony Orchestra. He has been studying the life and music of...
View ArticleRotary International president visits Oak Ridge for peace forum
When Rotary International President Sakuji Tanaka of Japan visits Oak Ridge on Friday and Saturday, he will talk about and hear innovative ideas on how to achieve peace through service. On Friday, Thom...
View ArticleORCMA, ORICL benefit from John Million bequest
John Million had a lifelong love affair with classical music, opera, and classic books. Before he died on March 21, 2012, he made sure that two Oak Ridge nonprofit organizations that contributed to his...
View ArticlePresbyterian leader to deliver lecture on science, religion tonight
The Rev. James Bradley Miller—general missioner of the Presbyterian Association on Science, Technology and the Christian Faith—will deliver the Tenth Annual Jackson B. Davidson Lecture on Science and...
View ArticleFinal ORSO concert Saturday features Tennessee composer, soloist
Two talented Tennessee women are playing major roles in the final Oak Ridge Symphony Orchestra concert of a season devoted to showcasing Tennessee music, composers, and performers. The women, who both...
View ArticleOak Ridge Peace Forum donates $7,500 to Rotary Peace Centers
The Oak Ridge Peace Forum has donated $7,500 of its net proceeds to the Peace Centers Endowment of The Rotary Foundation. “The Rotary Peace Centers offer an avenue for extending peace activities...
View ArticleRegister for ORICL courses, trips by May 15
Would you like to know how to develop an estate plan, protect your life’s savings from investment mistakes, take better photos with a digital camera, and control the growth of kudzu? If so, you may...
View ArticleMusicians to perform as coffeehouse opens second season Friday
Guitars have been tuned, harmonies rehearsed and dance steps practiced in preparation for Friday’s opening of the second season of the Coffeehouse at First Presbyterian Church. The coffeehouse was...
View ArticleUkelele-strumming duo at Friday fundraising coffeehouse
“Clear-toned,” “folksy,” and “spine-tingling” are apt descriptions of the performance Claire Berger and Catherine Payzant will give at Friday evening’s coffeehouse at First Presbyterian Church of Oak...
View ArticleGreen author, activist to speak Aug. 18 in Oak Ridge
Bill McKibben, “the planet’s best green journalist,” according to Time magazine and author of a dozen books about the environment, will speak on fossil fuels and climate change in August in Oak Ridge....
View ArticleCamp Creation July 11-12 at First Presbyterian
This summer, vacation Bible school at First Presbyterian Church for children two years old through rising fifth-grade students will have a new twist. Called Camp Creation, it’s based on a day camp...
View Article‘Do the math’ about fossil fuels, global warming, activist says
Since April 21, environmental activist Bill McKibben’s “Do the Math” movie has been shown around the nation and world. Its message is that catastrophic climate change looms large this century if fossil...
View ArticleCommunity-wide, 100-mile potluck at First Presbyterian on Sunday
First Presbyterian Church will host a 100-Mile Potluck meal from 1 to 3 p.m. Sunday on its soccer field off Lafayette Drive. The field is behind the sanctuary building at 1051 Oak Ridge Turnpike....
View ArticleCivil War books author to speak at ORICL kickoff Sunday
A leading author of Civil War history books who was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize 11 years ago will speak here this month at the Fall Kickoff of the Oak Ridge Institute for Continued Learning. The...
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