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Michael Ching: From Opera to Opry

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MICHAEL CHING is an American composer, conductor, and music administrator. He is best known nationally as the composer of innovative operas, including his a cappella adaptation of Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” (2011). His other major operas include “Buoso’s Ghost” (1996), “Corps of Discovery” (2003), “Slaying the Dragon” (2012), “Speed Dating Tonight!” (2013), and “Alice Ryley” (2015). He wrote the librettos of many of his own operas. He also writes & performs Country music.

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The Big Kahuna: A Video Chat with Pulitzer Prize Recipient William Finnegan

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In April, 2016 WILLIAM FINNEGAN was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his memoir “Barbarian Days:  A Surfing Life.”  Finnegan has been a surfer since growing up in California and Hawaii.  He became a “New Yorker” magazine staff writer in 1987.  In August, 1992 “The New Yorker” published Finnegan’s masterpiece article on surfing titled “Playing Doc’s Games,” which most surfers I know agree is the best surfing article ever written.

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