MSO announces new season, fresh website
Through four distinct series – Masterworks, Memphis Pops, Classic Accents and Stained Glass (new this year) – MSO will present more than 75 pieces of music by 37 composers and 24 guest artists.
Jill Johnson Piper
Freelance Reporter
Jill Johnson Piper is a second generation newspaper writer with roots in Memphis and Arkansas. She earned a B.A. in English from Rhodes College. Her work appears in Rhodes Today and Memphis magazine, as well as The Daily Memphian.
There are 38 articles by Jill Johnson Piper :
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August 2019
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Visual Arts Les Passees Stock Exchange returns to East Memphis
The upscale consignment sale has both a popular and almost cult following. Stock Exchange is Les Passees’ largest fundraiser and displays some 60,000 items on any given day of its seven-week run.
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Spirit of Memphis Art, history and soccer converge in Downtown Memphis
The scale of images on the art walk in four historic Downtown alleys invites selfies. “We expect to lose some of our crowd as people stop and Instagram the murals,” said Penelope Huston of the Downtown Memphis Commission.
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Arts & Culture Hitchhiker’s guide to the Target-verse
Dazed shoppers are still redrawing their internal maps of Target Central after a massive makeover. Here’s our advice: Picture an egg inside a rectangle, with clothes in the big oval in the middle and high-demand seasonal items in the corners.
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September 2019
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Neighborhoods Central Gardens Home Tour still looks great in its early 40s
Central Gardens in the mid-’70s might have been described as “shabby chic.” You could still buy something on Peabody or Lemaster for less than $50,000. Today, Realtor.com puts the median listing price in Central Gardens at $372,400.
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Visual Arts Women on canvas at Brooks, ‘all over the museum’ at Dixon
Important shows in two Memphis museums are winding up soon: the Bouguereau at Brooks, and two by Southern women artists at the Dixon.
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Music Buckman Center opens season with Iris DeMent
Iris DeMent’s distinctly American voice will kick off the 2019-2020 season Sunday, Sept. 15 at the Buckman Performing Arts Center in East Memphis.
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Music Grit and grind meets top hat and monocle: 30 Days of Opera
Instead of waiting for people to come to the opera house, 30 Days takes opera to festivals, libraries, restaurants and parks. “Having an opera singer 10 feet from you is like being on a roller coaster or in a windstorm,” says Opera Memphis' director Ned Canty.
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Music ‘All killer, no filler’ for joint Memphis Symphony, Opera Memphis season opener
The concert is an exhilarating mix of the fresh and the familiar, from 'The William Tell Overture' to 'You'll Never Walk Alone.'
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October 2019
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Germantown Sutton Foster’s cabaret set launches GPAC’s 25th season
Tony Award-winning singer and actress Sutton Foster, Latin vocalist Eliane Elias, and explorer Mireya Mayor are on GPAC's fall lineup.
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Arts & Culture‘Mourning Memphis’ in Victorian Village
An exhibit about the elaborate grieving customs of the 1800s will be in place at Woodruff-Fontaine House until Oct. 27. Twilight tours and ghost-hunting sprees can be booked by appointment, and not just during October.
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Spirit of Memphis Metal Museum: Steel Magnolia country
The Metal Museum's executive director Carissa Hussong calls the crowd-pleasing annual Repair Days “a reunion for the metalsmithing community.” The fundraising event is Oct. 17-20 this year.
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Arts & Culture A big hunk o’ dinosaur love at Graceland
Graceland’s visitors are getting younger, with an increase in traffic by 25- to 44-year-olds. When families arrive, they want something nearby for kids to do. Exhibits like Expedition: Dinosaur, on the grounds until January 2020, address the need.
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Bartlett Erin A. Craig’s ‘sense of eerie horror’ hooks Hollywood
Erin A. Craig is 'over the moon' about selling the rights to her scary YA novel "House of Salt and Sorrows."
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November 2019
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Performing Arts Camp SAY caters to students who stutter
“If there had been a Camp SAY in the ‘60s, that would have been a lifesaver for me,” says Vince Vawter, novelist and fluency advocate.
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Arts & Culture Memphis that almost wasn’t
"Memphis Reborn," a new book about Memphis in the 1880s, begins with the city "at its absolute low point."
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Performing Arts At 17, ‘Nut Remix’ still tells Tchaikovsky the news
New Ballet' "Nut Remix" resets the story of the "Nutcracker" ballet on Beale Street, and mixes in a little Booker T. & the MG's and Duke Ellington with the familiar Tchaikovsky music. This year's performances are Nov. 15-17 at the Cannon Center.
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December 2019
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Music‘Messiah’ soprano for hire: Mary Wilson loves to tell Handel’s old, old story
“Audiences aren’t paying to hear me read the phone book,” Wilson says. “It’s about telling a story. That’s really important to me.”
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Arts & Culture Orpheum will screen ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ for a good cause
See the classic movie at Downtown's classic theater while contributing to the Mid-South Food Bank.
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Arts & CultureMemphian once lived in Mister Rogers’ neighborhood
Memphis stationer Lee Ernst recalls living on same street in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with the humble TV star.
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Food Meals on Wheels with music: Yes, he takes requests
Volunteer MIFA driver keeps a song in his pocket.
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Visual Arts Going, going, until gone
Memphis College of Art to sell last 500 artworks starting Jan. 25.
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January 2020
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Guest Columnists Last decade, we learned kindness is cool and food comes from farms
In the 2010s, we saw real-size people on TV and became experts at streaming.
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Arts & Culture A tale of two bridges
The Mighty Lights on the I-55 Harahan Bridge went live late in 2016, and the Hernando DeSoto Bridge formed the other half of the dynamic display two years later. Now they're a pair of massive porch lights on the city's west front.
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Performing Arts Memphis literacy event draws nationally known writers
The last battle of the Korean War, the woman behind Winston Churchill and a Jewish family who survived the Holocaust will form the narrative thread for a lunch next month.
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