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LAKE COUNTY, Calif. — String classes and rehearsals for the new community orchestra originally scheduled to begin in September have been postponed by the Lake County Symphony Association.
Sue Condit, conductor of the LCSA Community Orchestra, said the sign-up date for string classes has been changed from September to December.
Classes and rehearsals will likely start in January of 2022.
“We’re pleased with the high level of community interest in the classes and the community orchestra and have already sent emails to those who expressed interest in participating to inform them of the date change,” said Condit. “Unfortunately, due to the uptick in the COVID virus and new safety protocols necessary to keep everyone safe in rehearsals, we felt a delay was necessary.”
Condit said the situation will be reevaluated in December. “If everything looks good, we plan to start up on Jan. 9, 2022.”
For the latest updates and for information about all upcoming LCSA events, visit the group’s website.
Debra Fredrickson works with the Lake County Symphony Association.
Sue Condit, conductor of the LCSA Community Orchestra, said the sign-up date for string classes has been changed from September to December.
Classes and rehearsals will likely start in January of 2022.
“We’re pleased with the high level of community interest in the classes and the community orchestra and have already sent emails to those who expressed interest in participating to inform them of the date change,” said Condit. “Unfortunately, due to the uptick in the COVID virus and new safety protocols necessary to keep everyone safe in rehearsals, we felt a delay was necessary.”
Condit said the situation will be reevaluated in December. “If everything looks good, we plan to start up on Jan. 9, 2022.”
For the latest updates and for information about all upcoming LCSA events, visit the group’s website.
Debra Fredrickson works with the Lake County Symphony Association.
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Dorianne Laux is one of our treasured poets. Her elegant poems grow out of the familiar.
“Urn” is beautifully inventive in the way she connects the moment of uneasy childlike delight in the inexplicable “magic” of a light switch (“I didn’t know/ where the light went”), with her struggle to face mortality.
Laux’s new collection of poems, from which this lovely elegy comes, “Only as the Day Is Long: New and Selected Poems,” appeared in 2020.
URN
By Dorianne Laux
I feel her swaying
under the earth, deep
in a basket of tree roots,
their frayed silk
keeping her calm,
a carpet of grass singing
Nearer my god to thee,
oak branches groaning in wind
coming up from the sea.
We take on trust the dead
are buried and gone,
the light doused for eternity,
the nevermore of their particulars
ground up, dispersed.
As a child I didn’t know
where the light went
when she flipped the switch,
though I once touched
the dark bulb that burned
my fingertips, studied the coiled
element trapped inside
seething with afterglow.
American Life in Poetry does not accept unsolicited manuscripts. It is made possible by The Poetry Foundation, publisher of Poetry magazine. It is also supported by the Department of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Poem copyright ©2020 by Dorianne Laux, “Urn” from Only as the Day Is Long: New and Selected Poems (W.W. Norton & Company, 2020.) Poem reprinted by permission of the author and the publisher. Introduction copyright ©2021 by The Poetry Foundation. The introduction’s author, Kwame Dawes, is George W. Holmes Professor of English and Glenna Luschei Editor of Prairie Schooner at the University of Nebraska.
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