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TWEETING All About it!

On May 28th, Arts Today Newszine Tweeted live from the performance of “The Magic Flute” at the St. Louis Opera Theater. Isaac Mizrahi designed many of the beautiful costumes and the talent was awesome as we watched a storybook come to life. Let’s become FRIENDS today so that you’re ready for our next Live Tweet session.

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The new season at Opera Theatre runs now through June 29, featuring four operas, sung in English, at the intimate Loretto-Hilton Center in Webster Groves – Isaac Mizrahi’s new production of Mozart’s masterpiece The Magic Flute, the ro-mantic comedy The Elixir of Love, the heartbreaking true story Dialogues of the Carmelites, and the world premiere of “27” based on the Paris salon of Gertrude Stein. Ticket prices start at $25. Click here to learn more about the season. In honor of the start of the new season and St. Louis’ 250th birthday, Opera Theatre put together a several hundred person community chorus for a spontaneous concert – watch highlights of the concert online.

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Jennings School District

In many districts across the country, programs in music and art are cut when budgets get lean, even as a growing body of research points out that immersion in art and music are connected to gains in math, reading comprehension, improved cognition, better concentration and willingness to work in a team. But things are different in Jennings. In the Jennings School District, teachers are using music to help students make connections in the core subjects of math, science and language arts.

Walk through the halls of the eight schools in the Jennings School District and you will see students and teachers signing an upbeat tune. In Jennings, the district is infusing

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every area of its curriculum with performing art, fine art and music.

Superintendent Tiffany Anderson, who arrived at the district in 2012, wants to include music and art in allacademic subjects from kindergarten through senior year. “Music and art are a form of expression, and (they) can be used to simplify complex skills and to help students express themselves academically,” Anderson says.

What are some examples of how music and art is infused in to the curriculum? In kindergarten, youngsters learn to tell time with a dance exercise that reinforces their understanding of math and how clocks work. In elementary schools, students write and sing rap songs to increase their understanding of multiplication tables. Middle schools students create visual representations of the food chain. In high school, students

who play musical instructions are learning time management and organizational skills and how music can have a calming influence.

Teacher James McKay’s students are learning the violin, the viola and the cello. From his perspective, even though the full impact of the arts at Jennings may not be known for some time (research is underwaynow), he sees a change in his students since the music program started.

“I would have to say the biggest impact has been on self discipline,” McKay says. “I have noticed students that were notorious for flying off the handle really tone down how they respond when they are angry or if something doesn’t go their way. I see them taking a moment to step back and think how they want to respond. instead of just being reactive. Not all of the benefits are social and behavioral. “Because music deals with repetition and mastery to be successful on their instruments, they must do a lot of criticalthinking,” McKay concludes. “This is transferring to their daily lives, and I see them thinking more in their tasks.”

The school district is currently piloting a new strings program called the Jennings Waltzing Warriors. Recently, students participated in a master class/workshop conducted by Adrian Walker who works with the St. Louis Symphony, The Fox, and The Muny. The district is looking for individuals and businesses interested in supporting the program so it can grow and involve more students. To learn more, click here.

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Stella’s Blues by Richard Newman

Former Car Dealer and part-Owner of Three Monkeys and Stella Blues Commits Suicide.—St. Louis Riverfront Times

He shot himself in the head at Stella Blueswith Howlin’ Wolf’s moaning companionship, numbed by the jukebox and last of his rail booze.

Night had faded like ink on cheap tattoos. He’d lost his sputtering Chrysler dealership and shot himself in the head at Stella Blues

by daybreak, the color of his barmaid’s bruise. He’d lost the Grand Ol’ Party chairmanshipthen numbed himself with the last of his rail booze.

He’d paid his never see you no more dues(a bullet buys exclusive membership)and shot himself in the head at Stella Blues.

Why don’t you hear me cryin’, my ah woo hoos? Even his wife had jumped his sinking ship and so he numbed himself with his rail booze.

Death offered zero interest. Who’d refuse?Swaying to “Smoke Stack Lightning”’s primal worship, he shot himself in the head at Stella Blues,numbed with the last of his own cheap rail booze.

Richard Newman 2350 Virginia St. Louis, MO 63104

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Richard Newman’s All the Wasted Beauty of the World is masterful and magnetic, from the “galaxy of gnats” hovering in the St. Louis twilight to the way a backwoods junkyard “gnaws on a pile of old Ford bones.” He sees a group of bored high school kids with “nothing to lose/ but stupid summer jobs and innocence,” and captures with perfect acuity how “September rain in streetlight/ silvers the cypress needles, scatters new dimes/ among the nuisance alley mulberry trees.” Newman’s poems, with their formal, lapidary precision, their indelible portraits of life in the cheap bars, back alleys, and rough hewn edges of the Midwest, surprise a hunger in us for a language larger, wilder, and unabashedly loftier than daily speech.

—George Bilgere, author of Imperial

The poems in Richard Newman’s remarkable third collection, All the Wasted Beauty of the World, are heady explorers. They roam from Lost Man Pass to Benton Park, from downtown St. Louis to Southern Indiana, all the while balancing gorgeous musicality with lyric originality. In the midst of the wandering, there is longing in these poems—for place, for order, for morning. There is urgency, too, and beauty, wasted and otherwise, in places we don’t always expect it. Newman is a bold and masterful formalist in a free-verse world, and he uses sonnets, aubades, villanelles, and odes to reconcile the geographies of the interior and exterior. Again and again, this collection makes us recalibrate our true north and forces us to reconsider the world for all of the unpredictable places where we can find beauty.

—Adrian Matejka, author of The Big Smoke

Newman uses the power of recollection and imagery to craft odes, sonnets, villanelles, ballads, and free verse with titles like “Four Kids Pissing off the Overpass after a Cards Game.” Each poem calls our attention to a rough-and-tumble, everyday America we often drive past but overlook. All the Wasted Beauty of the World returns us to the real and, consequently, the new by putting on the brakes and asking us to look, if only briefly, beyond our rear-views.

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