Messiah College is presenting the Workshop for the Christian Guitarist (and Worship Leaders who want to understand them), on Saturday March 13. The clinicians will be Dr.Dwight W. Thomas, Director of Christian Music Studies and Ethnomusicology and ProfessorRandall Zwally, Director of Guitar Studies. We got Professor Zwally into the WITF Performance Studio to play a number of guitar pieces for us and give us a bit of history of the guitar through the ages. Enjoy the performance below.
They were known in scientific circles as HeLa cells, and were unlike any human cells previously known. Taken from a cancerous tumor in 1951 from a 31 year old African American woman named Henrietta Lacks, these cells would be the first human cells to survive and grow in the laboratory. They would be instrumental in medical research breakthroughs from the polio vaccine to cancer medicines to the effects of the atomic bomb and outer space conditions on human cells. Eventually, these cells would become part of a multi-billion dollar industry, indispensible to scientific research in hundreds of fields. Author Rebecca Skloot spent ten years investigating and working on this extraordinary book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. It tells not only the story of the cells, but the story of the life of the woman from whom they came and the family who never even knew the cells had been taken. The book is the WITF/Borders Pick of the Month for March, on special display at Borders stores throughout the region. Below you can hear our interview with author Rebecca Skloot.
The World Piano Competition medalist and Greek native Ioannis Potamousis recently performed live in the WITF studio, playing virtuosic Greek dances by composers from his homeland. Ioannis is also a faculty member at the Pennsylvania Academy of Music in Lancaster. Below you can hear his interview and performance in our studio.
Shaun Ellis spent his childhood in the wilds of Norfolk, England where animals were a large part of his life on the rural farm of his grandfather. In his book, The Man Who Lives With Wolves, he takes us from this upbringing to his survival training with British Army Special Forces to the Nez Percé Indian lands in Idaho where he first ran with a wolf pack for nearly two years. Ellis actually was accepted as a member of a wolf pack in the wild. He lived as they lived, ate what they ate, and learned how they communicate. You can hear our Creative Zone feature with Shaun Ellis below.
The historic mansion at 1110 North 3rd Street in Harrisburg has had a long and rich history. Built as the Hummel Mansion in the 1860's, it became the first Jewish Community Center in 1927, and in the 1950's became the home of the Harrisburg Police Athletic League. Today, it is getting a new chapter in its history as the Harrisburg Midtown Arts Center. The Stage On Herr performance space is now opening full-time, and progress continues on the other aspects of the plans for the arts complex. Listen to our Creative Zone feature about the vision for the arts complex, and view some great old photos below.
As more dedicated research points to its benefits, music therapy is increasingly being used as a tool for healing and life enrichment by health organizations. Clinical benefits have been seen for patients of all ages, with illnesses ranging from physical ailments to cognitive and speech dysfunction to severe dementia. WITF-FM Classical Air Host Cary Burkett explores the practice in The Creative Zone.
(Note: Please see the May issue of Central PA Magazine for a companion article on this subject.)
They were known in scientific circles as HeLa cells, and were unlike any human cells previously known. Taken from a cancerous tumor in 1951 from a 31 year old African American woman named Henrietta Lacks, these cells would be the first human cells to survive and grow in the laboratory. They would be instrumental in medical research breakthroughs from the polio vaccine to cancer medicines to the effects of the atomic bomb and outer space conditions on human cells. Eventually, these cells would become part of a multi-billion dollar industry, indispensible to scientific research in hundreds of fields. Author Rebecca Skloot spent ten years investigating and working on this extraordinary book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. It tells not only the story of the cells, but the story of the life of the woman from whom they came and the family who never even knew the cells had been taken. The book is the WITF/Borders Pick of the Month for March, on special display at Borders stores throughout the region. Below you can hear our interview with author Rebecca Skloot.
Shaun Ellis spent his childhood in the wilds of Norfolk, England where animals were a large part of his life on the rural farm of his grandfather. In his book, The Man Who Lives With Wolves, he takes us from this upbringing to his survival training with British Army Special Forces to the Nez Percé Indian lands in Idaho where he first ran with a wolf pack for nearly two years. Ellis actually was accepted as a member of a wolf pack in the wild. He lived as they lived, ate what they ate, and learned how they communicate. You can hear our Creative Zone feature with Shaun Ellis below.
As more dedicated research points to its benefits, music therapy is increasingly being used as a tool for healing and life enrichment by health organizations. Clinical benefits have been seen for patients of all ages, with illnesses ranging from physical ailments to cognitive and speech dysfunction to severe dementia. WITF-FM Classical Air Host Cary Burkett explores the practice in The Creative Zone.
