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Music Spotlight: Jennifer Higdon

February 27, 2020February 26, 2020 Bethany Bowman

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Nashville — When I created my Music Spotlight column that would tell an artist’s “where they came from” story, never did I ever imagine interviewing the three-time Grammy-winning and 2010 Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer Jennifer Higdon. However, Nashville’s Symphony Publicist Dave Felipe advised that I needed to hear her story, and I am thrilled to tell it.

Sam Shepard, Oscar-Nominated Actor and Pulitzer Prize-Winning playwright, Dies at 73

August 1, 2017July 31, 2017 Admin

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Sam Shepard, paragon playwright of the American West, was born to roam. With a father who was an Army officer and sometime farmer and a mother who was a teacher, Shepard — born in 1943, the oldest of three — spent his childhood bouncing around the heartland. This would later…