Boston Conservatory News

Submitted by Sherry Jackson, Needham COA Associate Director If you walk two to four miles, a couple of days a week, then the Needham Senior Center Walking Club is for you.

A 1. Walnut Hill School for the Arts students will be at the Boston Conservatory today and tomorrow to perform New Works: Performance of Student Choreography, showing off a year's worth of work.

The St. Cloud Symphony Orchestra named Clinton Smith as its new artistic director and principal conductor today.

Interview: The Wippets One chance encounter during a trip to New Orleans back in 2003 illuminated the bulb for the Wippets' Matt Martin and Tony Depoto, two East Bay musicians seeking inspiration during the annual Jazzfest.

Submitted by Sherry Jackson, Associate Director Wouldn't it be great if exercise were fun? Discover Zumba, an exciting dance-fitness program that's more of a party than a workout.

In recognition of Chatham's Tercentennial, Chatham Chorale has commissioned "North Beach Journal: A Chatham Rhapsody" by William Cutter, with text by Robert Finch.

RHYTHM OF THE MOMENT Now 40, Boston avant-garde standard-bearers the Fringe - Bob Gullotti, John Lockwood, and George Garzone - long ago gave up playing tunes.

The Galleries Of Crayton Cove are hosting another "Art After Dark" from 6 to 9 p.m. Saturday by the Naples City Dock where Eighth Street South and 12th Avenue South meet.

Tiverton's Evan Kinnane is a musical theater triple threat in singing, acting and dancing, and plans to further his budding career this summer, according to a recent interview in the ongoing blog series with the 2011 Anthony Quinn Foundation Scholarship recipients.

The death of the brilliant tenor and soprano saxophonist Sam Rivers on Boxing Day 2011 was a huge loss to jazz performance and education, and to a musician who exerted influence and inspiration on generations of musicial innovators.

Ed Lanouette is filling in for SHADOWS FALL bassist Paul Romanko on the Massachusetts metal band's current U.S. tour with FEAR FACTORY .

Edna Huang, clarinetist -- Principal Clarinet with the Mid-Atlantic Symphony orchestra has also performed with: Maryland Symphony; National Philharmonic at Strathmore; Washington Concert Opera, Baltimore Opera Company; Key West Symphony ; Annapolis Symphony.

Ed Lanouette is filling in for SHADOWS FALL bassist Paul Romanko on the Massachusetts metal band's current U.S. tour.