Meet the composer
Learn more about the music and creative process of Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra composer and Grammy Award nominee Jennifer Higdon.
WITF-FM's John Clare, producer/host of "Classical Air" and "Composing Thoughts," will speak with Higdon, 3 to 5 p.m. Saturday, March 8, at the WITF Public Media Center, 4801 Lindle Road, Harrisburg.
He will perform Higdon's String Poetic with pianist and WITF music director Dick Strawser and preview her Percussion Concerto, which the HSO and percussionist Chris Rose will present in concert, Sunday, March 9.
A grant from Meet The Composer's MetLife Creative Connections funds the Composing Thoughts LIVE discussions, which are free and open to the public.
Registration is required. Call 704-3000 or e-mail
composingthoughtslive@witf.org.
Attendees can win compact discs of Higdon's music and tickets to HSO's concert.
"Composing Thoughts" airs at 6 p.m. Sundays, on WITF-FM 89.5.
Milk rocks
Here's your chance to sing with Rascal Flatts live on stage.
The Country Music Association, Country Music Television, American Music Awards and People's Choice award-winning multiplatinum country superstars are joining the Milk Rocks! promotion of health and nutrition.
As part of the campaign, a "Be a Milk Rockstar" contest will kick off March 1.
The grand-prize winner will have the chance to sing with the band and meet with a Lyric Street Records A&R representative.
To register, go to
www.milkrocks.com, and pick your favorite of five available Rascal Flatts songs. Participants can upload their own karaoke-style video recording of the tune, to be voted on by the Milk Rocks! online community.
The top 10 vote earners will win signed Les Paul Gibson guitars, plus Rascal Flatts CDs and posters signed by the band. A grand-prize winner will be chosen by Rascal Flatts from the top three on April 15.
Contest rules will be explained in the band's prerecorded messages at
www.milkrocks.com and on more than 100 million milk cartons and 40,000 school-lunchroom posters.
The Milk Rocks! program, which launched in September 2007, has recently been featured in "Billboard" and "The Hollywood Reporter" and has attracted American Idol star Elliott Yamin, Hilary Duff, The Cheetah Girls and Mandy Moore.
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