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Catherine Hagman

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Editor. Supporter of the arts. Granddaughter of immigrants. Current reading: St. Augustine (finally). Current focus: Our republic, because I want to keep it.

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Catherine Hagman @catherinehagman.bsky.social · 5h
@clfametrodc.bsky.social, here we go!
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Catherine Hagman @catherinehagman.bsky.social · 8h
This October WETA Classical’s Choral Showcase features works of the mysterious and the macabre. 💀 To open the month: choral selections from Béla Bartók, Edward Elgar, and Thomas Ravenscroft. 🐦‍⬛ Tune in or stream at 9 p.m. EDT—and keep the lights on. weta.org/fm/features/...
English composer Edward ElgarHungarian composer Béla Bartók
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Catherine Hagman @catherinehagman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
My October WETA program guide landed in my mailbox just in time. It's going to be a deliciously spooky Arts and Humanities Month. 🐦‍⬛ 🌕 🐈‍⬛ 🦇 🎃 weta.org
The cover of the October 2026 WETA magazine, which features a picture of Edgar Allan Poe and a raven sitting on a branch with a full moon behind it.
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Washington Revels @revelsdc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Many thanks to all who played, sang, and reveled at our Autumn pub sing at Kirwan's On The Wharf ☘ just over a week ago. And there's more seasonal Revelry on the way—follow us to get updates and Autumn 🍁 events, and be sure to sign up for our monthly e-newsletter: signup.e2ma.net/signup/18719...
Toni Goldberg smiles and displays a rainbow fan at the reception desk for the pub sing at Kirwan's On The Wharf.Five men sing around the microphone upstairs at Kirwan's On The Wharf.Two members of the Whiskey Before Breakfast Band smile following their sets.A man sings a solo at the microphone as Jubilee Voices member Matt Pearson claps his hands.
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Washington Revels @revelsdc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🍂 October opens on a bright note 🎶 with International Music Day, which celebrates the rich diversity of music that connects folks across the 🌎. Be sure to visit our Washington Revels YouTube channel for a sample of the music we’ve made together. www.youtube.com/@WashingtonR... #InternationalMusicDay
Musicians—including members of the Washington Revels Jubilee Voices and the Whiskey Before Breakfast Band—play banjos, a guitar, a fiddle, and a flute during 2022’s Christmas Revels: Celtic Crossroads.
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Washington Revels @revelsdc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It’s harvest time, and the Jewish festival of Sukkot begins at sundown on September 25—now’s a perfect time to explore celebration of the festival. Revelers Judy and David Ehrenstein do just that in this Season of Reveling video. See the first comment for more info. www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7T1...
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Season of Reveling: Symbols of Sukkot
YouTube video by Washington Revels
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Sr. Carolyn Morrison ra @srcarolyn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Dear Lord, thank you for the gift of a new day. May all that I do today be done with love and for your glory. #MorningPrayer
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Catherine Hagman @catherinehagman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Tonight's Choral Showcase on WETA Classical features Die Schöpfung (The Creation) by Franz Joseph Haydn. Expect angelic and human voices, plus numerous references to all manner of creatures on the Earth. 🐳 🦉🦌Tune in or stream beginning at 9 p.m. EDT. weta.org/fm/features/... #ChoralShowcase #WETA
A painting of Paradise with the Fall of Man. The artist, Jan Brueghel the Younger, has depicted various birds, including an owl, and assorted animals, including a pair of lions. Adam and Eve can be seen under a tree some distance from the animals.
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Catherine Hagman @catherinehagman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Happening later this month at the Echo Arts Festival at Glen Echo Park! #HispanicHeritageMonth #PuertoRico #EchoArtsFestival #GlenEchoPark
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Washington Revels @revelsdc.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
#HispanicHeritageMonth begins TODAY, and on September 27, @revelsdc.bsky.social will celebrate with a Latine Mummers Play at the Echo Arts Festival at Glen Echo Park. The theme: a legend from Puerto Rico that focuses on one of the island’s most beloved inhabitants. 🐸 revelsdc.org/2026/sept27-...
A young man wearing a hat and a black jacket decorated with bright embroidery and a young woman wearing a wreath of colorful flowers and a peasant-style blouse face each other while performing in the Latine Mummers Play in 2025. Photo credit: Ricardo Rodriguez.
A young woman wearing a wreath of flowers and a peasant-style blouse sings during the Latine Mummers Play in 2025. Photo credit: Ricardo Rodriguez.
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Catherine Hagman @catherinehagman.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Tonight on WETA Classical's Choral Showcase: the finale of the America 250: A Classical Portrait series. Featured: The Bells by Rachmaninoff (inspired by E.A. Poe) and A Child of Our Time by Tippett (incorporating African American spirituals). Tune in/stream at 9 p.m. EDT. weta.org/fm/features/...
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Rachmaninoff & Tippett: Reflections on American Poetry & Song
For America 250, reflections on American poetry and song by Sergei Rachmaninoff and Sir Michael Tippett.
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Catherine Hagman @catherinehagman.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
James Jacobs, host at WETA Classical, is playing Clara Wieck Schumann's Piano Trio in G Minor in honor of feminist and journalist Gloria Steinem, who died this week at the age of 92. She and Clara will have a lot to talk about. Listen to WETA FM here: weta.org/fm #GloriaSteinem #ClaraWieckSchumann
Composer and pianist Clara Wieck Schumann Journalist, feminist, and co-founder of Ms. Magazine Gloria Steinem
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Catherine Hagman @catherinehagman.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
@clfametrodc.bsky.social, happy Ginger Cat Appreciation Day! 🐈 And welcome to the month of September.
An orange striped cat resting on a driveway in Silver Spring, Maryland.
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Catherine Hagman @catherinehagman.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Ten years ago, reporters and historians noted that Roy Cohn, the disgraced counsel of the disgraced Senator Joe McCarthy (R-WI), mentored Donald Trump. Today, as Trump calls Democrats "communists," too many leave that context out. #midterms #Cohn #Trump #McCarthyism #redbaiting wapo.st/2msgzYP
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The man who showed Donald Trump how to exploit power and instill fear
Lawyer and adviser Roy M. Cohn was a master of the attack and counterattack.
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Catherine Hagman @catherinehagman.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
On #WETAClassical's Choral Showcase tonight, hear Music for a Great Cathedral (here, the Washington National Cathedral). Featured: To Hope! A Celebration by Brubeck, Mount Saint Alban Communion Service by Davison, & Exaltations by Esmail. Tune in/stream at 9 p.m. EDT. weta.org/fm/features/...
The exterior of the Washington National Cathedral against a blue sky on a late afternoon in September 2017.
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Catherine Hagman @catherinehagman.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I just learned that today is Greg Keelor's birthday, so this seems a great opportunity to share this. #GregKeelor #BlueRodeo nextmag.ca/four-questio...
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Four Questions: Greg Keelor » NEXT Magazine
A Canadian music legend, Blue Rodeo’s Greg Keelor has been hard at work over the pandemic. His just released latest solo record, Share the Love, is out after over a year-and-a-half of writing and reco...
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Len Spencer @lenspencer.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Your executive orders signed in sharpie are powerless against Greg Keelor lyrics.
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Catherine Hagman @catherinehagman.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
She misses the train but does get on the plane.
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Catherine Hagman @catherinehagman.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Auditions for Winter Revels: An American Celebration are coming in September. Teen auditions are on September 13, which is coming up faster than you think, and tryouts for children are on September 18–19, with callbacks on September 20. This is NOT a Broadway-style show, but it is a D.C. tradition!
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Washington Revels @revelsdc.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
#ThoughtfulThursday is a perfect time for teens (grades 9–12) to sign up for an audition for Winter Revels: An American Celebration. We seek strong singers of all ancestries to be part of a production set at a holiday celebration in 1870 Washington, D.C. revelsdc.org/2026/sept13-... #auditions
Teen singers in 19th century attire perform during Early American Christmas Revels (2006). Photo credit: Sheppard Ferguson.
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Catherine Hagman @catherinehagman.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I just realized that the AP reporter who provided this article does not mention Karen Attiah by name in the lede, and Ms. Attiah's name also does not appear in either the headline or the bankhead. She is identified as "a Black opinion writer" three times. Gift link: wapo.st/4wQFQem
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Washington Post ordered to reinstate Black opinion writer fired after Charlie Kirk posts
An arbitrator has ordered The Washington Post to reinstate a Black opinion writer fired over social media posts about violent white men following last year’s killing of conservative activist Charlie K...
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Catherine Hagman @catherinehagman.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Tonight’s Choral Showcase on #WETAClassical features two works by Puerto Rican composer Roberto Sierra (1953– ): Idilio and Missa Latina “Pro Pace.” Tune in or stream at 9 p.m. EDT. weta.org/fm/features/... #MissaLatina #PuertoRico #PuertoRicanComposers #America250 #America250AClassicalPortrait
Yunque Rainforest in Puerto Rico. Photo by Beau Horyza on Unsplash.
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Catherine Hagman @catherinehagman.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
@clfametrodc.bsky.social, it's Black Cat Appreciation Day. Post pictures of your favorite black cats.
Black cat on a fence with the words "Let the appreciation commence."
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Catherine Hagman @catherinehagman.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Coming up on Choral Showcase on #WETAClassical at 9 p.m. EDT: songs and full-length choral works by Samuel Barber (1910–1981) and Leonard Bernstein (1918–1990). Tune in to WETA FM or stream at the link. weta.org/fm/features/... #America250 #America250AClassicalPortrait #AmericanComposers
American composer Samuel Barber in 1944American composer Leonard Bernstein in 1959
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Cantard @cantard.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
SCOTUS, July 1, 2024: Actually, if the President does it, it's not a crime.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
On August 8, 1974, Pres. Nixon resigned, due in part to information uncovered by an investigation of the U.S. Justice Department, and under pressure from congressional Republicans On August 8, 2026, Todd Blanche was confirmed by Senate Republicans, ensuring DOJ will never investigate Pres. Trump.
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Catherine Hagman @catherinehagman.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Tonight's Choral Showcase on #WETAClassical features settings of the Mass from American composers: Messe Ancienne by Trevor Weston (1967– ), Mass of the Holy Spirit by Randall Thompson (1899–1984), and Mass in Exile by Mark Buller (1986– ). Tune in or stream at 9 p.m. EDT. weta.org/fm/features/...
Altar and stained glass window at Trinity Church Wall Street. Credit: Ronin on Unsplash.
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Catherine Hagman @catherinehagman.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
@clfametrodc.bsky.social, happy International Cat Day! And in honor of the occasion, here's a wise cat who can see when trouble's brewing.🐈‍⬛ You can visit this feline at the National Gallery of Art in D.C. www.nga.gov/artworks/956... #InternationalCatDay
A cat sitting by Adam's right hip in the 1616 painting The Fall of Man by Hendrick Goltzius.
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Catherine Hagman @catherinehagman.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Tonight's program on #WetaClassical's #ChoralShowcase is called Silence and Meditation. Featured works: Silence Unaccompanied (last songs) by Charles Ives, Sacred Songs and Meditations by James Primosch, and Rothko Chapel by Morton Feldman. Tune in or stream at 9 p.m. EDT. weta.org/fm/features/...
Foamy white waves on a pebbled beach with a misty blue sky above and an island in the distance. Photo credit: IndiraFoto from Pixabay.
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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 24/07/2026
This week's MD-08 Local Hero is artistic visionary Busy Graham. Thank you, Busy, for your decades of service making the arts more accessible to everyone in our community. Check out her inspiring thoughts.
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Local Hero Video Series: Week 317 Feat. Busy Graham
YouTube video by Rep. Jamie Raskin
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Catherine Hagman @catherinehagman.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Coming up on WETA Classical's Choral Showcase: Folksong Symphony by Roy Harris, Old American Songs by Aaron Copland, and Heavenly Home: Three American Songs, arranged by Shawn Kirchner. Songs about angels, boatmen, and a cat! 🐈‍⬛ Tune in or stream beginning at 9 p.m. EDT. weta.org/fm/features/...
Jolly Flatboatmen in Port by George Caleb Bingham.
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Congresswoman Betty McCollum @mccollum.house.gov · 25/07/2026
Last year, the Trump Administration delayed a $10 million grant meant for thinning out ~4,000 acres of dense, dry areas in the Superior National Forest. Most of the work never started. Now, it’s on fire. This is the cost of Elon Musk and the actions of DOGE. www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2026...
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‘We were shovel ready’: A Minnesota forest hit by DOGE cuts is now ablaze
Fire crews now have to thin out thousands of acres of dense, dry forest as wildfires burn.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 25/07/2026
I talked to On the Media’s @micahloewinger.bsky.social and their amazing producer Molly Schwartz Rosen, about my ICE flight reporting, third-country removals, and the professional pickle I am in. Starts at 34:00: www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...
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The Red Scare, but Dumber | On the Media | WNYC Studios
This week, the State Department published a report accusing Cuba of being the “capital of 21st-century communism,” and of plotting an anti-American revolution. On this week’s On the M...
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 30/01/2026
NEW: Meet the private-equity firm -- and its billionaire immigrant CEO -- making millions off some of ICE's cruelest deportation flights. After a five-month investigation, my story for @motherjones.com: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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ICE Deportation Flights Are Getting Longer and Crueler
A private equity-owned airline profits off Trump’s migrant crackdown.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
As a person with father issues of my own, it’s terrifying how much that relationship has an effect on international politics in multiple countries. It crosses parties and ideologies. Obama wrote a whole book about his. Bush invaded Iraq over his. Get therapy, people.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
There's an alternative universe where you're not only penalized for fraud (states don't need incentives to find it; they're picking up a lot of the bill) but penalized for denying benefits to eligible recipients.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
To be clearer on this, Trump is faring worse than Bush did during peak unpopularity of Iraq War and worse than Nixon at height of Watergate.
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Catherine Hagman @catherinehagman.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Tonight's #ChoralShowcase on #WETAClassical features Nkeiru Okoye's When the Caged Bird Sings, a work centering on love, support, and resilience within the African American community. Soloists include Christie Dashiell and Jubilant Sykes. Tune in or stream at 9 p.m. EDT. weta.org/fm/features/...
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When the Caged Bird Sings
From Nkeiru Okoye, music of hope, possibility, and endurance: When the Caged Bird Sings.
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Catherine Hagman @catherinehagman.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Tonight’s #ChoralShowcase on #WETAClassical is called “The Cost of Freedom” and features Letters from Gettysburg by Avner Dorman, songs of the Civil War, Figure Humaine by Francis Poulenc, and The Road Home by Stephen Paulus. Tune in/stream at 9 p.m. EDT. weta.org/fm/features/... #America250
From Gettysburg, Pennsylvania: a memorial to the 78th and 102nd New York Infantry Regiments. The photo was taken in the autumn of 2017.
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Catherine Hagman @catherinehagman.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
The theme of tonight's #ChoralShowcase on #WETAClassical is America Sings: Songs and Hymns for Independence Day, and the composers/lyricists include Katharine Lee Bates, the Beach Boys, Stephen Foster, and Woody Guthrie. Tune in or stream at 9 p.m. EDT. weta.org/fm/features/...
A stained-glass window depicting angels playing musical instrumentsPikes Peak in Colorado
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Catherine Hagman @catherinehagman.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
If you say that you believe that all people are created equal and that the Creator endowed us all with certain unalienable rights, including life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, you cannot then treat immigrants as less than equal and entitled to no rights at all. #America250
Ellis Island with ships passing by
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Catherine Hagman @catherinehagman.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Tonight’s #ChoralShowcase on #WETAClassical continues the America 250: A Classical Portrait theme by teaming American composers with American poets—New England poets, to be precise. Tune in or stream at 9 p.m. EDT. weta.org/fm/features/... #ChoralMusic #America250 #AmericanComposers #AmericanPoets
A New England lighthouse stands against the blue sky. Wildflowers grow on the shore. Waves strike the rocky coastline. Photo by Rich Martello on Unsplash.
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Catherine Hagman @catherinehagman.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
The theme of tonight's #ChoralShowcase on #WETAClassical is American Water Music. Featured works include "Shenandoah," And God Created Great Whales 🐳 by Alan Hovhaness, and Walden Pond by Dominick Argento. Tune in or stream beginning at 9 p.m. EDT. weta.org/fm/features/... #America250
Green fields, a river, and mist-covered mountains in Connecticut. Photo credit: flarp9 from Pixabay.
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Catherine Hagman @catherinehagman.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Coming up on @WETAClassical’s Opera Matinee this Juneteenth weekend: Edmond Dédé’s Morgiane, the earliest known surviving opera by a Black American composer. Tune in or stream today at 1 p.m. EDT. weta.org/fm/features/...
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Morgiane
The oldest surviving opera by a Black American, Morgiane is a tragedy and comedy with characters and ideas from Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, a story of love, family and personal discovery. A record...
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Catherine Hagman @catherinehagman.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Freedom: Music for Juneteenth is the theme of tonight's #ChoralShowcase on #WETAClassical. Featured works include Credo by Margaret Bonds and Song of Hope by Florence Price. Tune in or stream at 9 p.m. EDT. weta.org/fm/features/... #Juneteenth #America250AClassicalPortrait #WomenComposers
A portrait of the composer Margaret BondsA portrait of the composer Florence Price
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Future historian department: -Front page of today's NYT reports creation of world's first trillionaire. -Lead op-ed of same NYT is about worst-ever Ebola outbreak, which *this VERY SAME trillionaire* enabled, with his "chainsaw" destruction of US public health in the world. The book writes itself
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Catherine Hagman @catherinehagman.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
I wish Wendy Wasserstein were here to accept the challenge!
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Every Film Now @everyfilmnow.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Lesley Manville takes a moment to acknowledge her fellow nominees while accepting the Tony Award for Leading Actress in a Play: "Would somebody like to write a play for five women? We are quite bankable, you know." #LesleyManville #TonyAwards
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Catherine Hagman @catherinehagman.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Tonight #WETAClassical continues its America 250: A Classical Portrait series with the Grand Mass in E-flat Major, composed by Amy Marcy Cheney Beach when she was just 19. Tune in or stream at 9 p.m. EDT. weta.org/fm/features/... #ChoralShowcase #AmyBeach #America250 #WomenComposers
The American composer Amy Marcy Cheney Beach (1867–1944).
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Catherine Hagman @catherinehagman.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Tonight on #WETAClassical's #ChoralShowcase: works that incorporate the poetry of Walt Whitman. The compositions (by Muhly, Delius, Bates, and Vaughan Williams) come from both sides of the Atlantic and creative lives that span three (!) centuries. Tune in or stream at 9 p.m. weta.org/fm/features/...
A portrait of Walt Whitman by Alexander Gardner
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