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Premieres Monday, July 4, 2022 at 8 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. on KPBS TV / On demand on PBS Video App. Celebrate our country's 246th birthday with the 42nd anniversary broadcast of America's Independence Day celebration for our entire nation. Joining country music star and four-time Grammy-nominee Mickey Guyton, who will be hosting and performing during the celebration, will be top stars from pop, country, R&B, classical and Broadway with the National Symphony Orchestra.

The Hutchins Consort plays on the eight scaled violins of the violin octet designed and built by famed luthier Dr. Carleen Hutchins. The instruments are the first successful attempt to create an acoustically balanced set of instruments that can sound truly like violins across the entire range of written music. With instruments ranging from the tiny treble violin, tuned one octave above the standard violin, to the gigantic large bass violin, tuned one octave lower than a 'cello, the Hutchins Consort produces an astonishing palette of sounds. In the last series of the season, these concerts will feature the Tchaikovsky serenade and Jerry Folsom on French Horn. Date | Friday, May 13 from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Location | St. Andrews Episcopal Church Get tickets here! Acult admission: $35 Senior/Student admission: $20 Family admission (2 adults and 2 children): $60 For more information, please visit eventbrite.com/e/hutchins-consort-presents-grand-finale or call (760) 632-0554.

Wegner would be the first woman to win the Academy Award for cinematography. She says a highlight of the project was filming the lead actor as he improvised a key emotional moment in the story.

The Wagner New Play Festival is an annual festival of new works by MFA playwrights, in collaboration with MFA/PhD directors, actors, designers, stage managers, and dramaturges. Don't miss "Promithes, Promithes" written by Agyeiwaa Asante MFA '24 and "Nonna Kills the President" written by Milo Cramer MFA '24, and directed by Emily Moler MFA '22. About "Promithes, Promithes": "Promithes, Promithes" is a portrait of a friendship in crisis. Ash has always been there for Jeremy but when she finds herself helping him navigate yet another personal crisis she wonders if it is finally time for these two old friends to define their relationship. A comedy about how we treat the people we claim to love. About "Nonna Kills the President": Nonna is in her 90s and spends her days pooping and puzzling and watching the news. Mona is in her 70s and spends her days cleaning up the poop and fantasizing about abandoning Nonna in the woods. Nonna doesn’t know who she is but she knows one thing. She wants to kill the president. "Nonna Kills the President" is a mother daughter comedy/thriller/daydream about an old woman’s dying wish and the caring daughter she’s leaving behind. Showtimes Preview: Thursday, May 5 at 7 p.m. Showings: Saturday, May 7 Wednesday, May 11 at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, May 12 at 7:30 p.m. Friday, May 13 at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, May 14 at 2 p.m. Location | Arthur Wagner Theatre Get tickets here! • UCSD Student tickets are $10 • UCSD Faculty and Staff tickets are $15 • General Admission tickets are $20 For more information, please visit theatre.ucsd.edu/season/wnpf22/promithes-nonna or call (858) 534-2230.

A pianist widely admired by his fellow artists, Radu Lupu was known for his interpretations of Brahms, Schubert, Mozart and Beethoven, among others. Lupu retired from performing in 2019.

Guillermo del Toro's new film, Pinocchio, hovers between joy and sadness. So does the music by French composer Alexandre Desplat — performed, appropriately, entirely on wooden instruments.

Twelve years after a revolution that overthrew a dictator Tunisians are leaving the country in droves in the midst of a socio-economic crisis and political instability.

It was a heart-pounding, dance-inducing, head-spinning year in Latin music, from Bad Bunny's exponential rise to a relentless commitment from up and coming artists to play between genre lines.

For Christmas tree shoppers who want a real live tree that's reusable like an artificial one, there may be another option: rentable potted trees that are planted in the ground when they grow too big.

Known for his sonic brashness and unyielding artistic vision, Birtwistle was awarded a British knighthood in 1988. He was one of the U.K.'s most prominent composers for decades.