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Mary Epperson Day

My for­mer piano teacher, Mary Epper­son, turned 88 yes­ter­day! Her age demys­ti­fied. What?! I should be ashamed for pub­lish­ing this infor­ma­tion, but I am too aston­ished. This woman has for many decades been at the cen­ter of ‘art-world’ in my hippy-fisherman home­town of Homer, Alaska. She was the first great music teacher in my life,

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Con­rad Winslow’s music is char­ac­ter­ized by “har­monic thorni­ness and rhyth­mic vital­ity,” accord­ing to the New York Times. He com­posed music for the film The Last Roman­tic (2006), an “IndieWIRE undis­cov­ered gem” avail­able on IFC on demand, and his instru­men­tal music has been per­formed by ensem­bles such as the Amer­i­can Com­posers Orches­tra, the Juil­liard Orches­tra, the