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Adapting \u2018Antonia\u2019<\/h4>\n

While Willa Cather\u00a0forbade any adaptation of her work, pianist\/composer\u00a0Sir Stephen Hough hopes his\u00a0adaptation her novel\u00a0\u201cMy \u00c1ntonia\u201d would have been an exception \u201cin consideration of her love of music.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Hough will perform the West Coast premiere of his\u00a0piano quintet,\u00a0\u201cLes Noces Rouges,\u201d with the\u00a0Viano Quartet\u00a0at\u00a0Music@Menlo on July 26 and 28.<\/p>\n

Drawn to its potential as\u00a0\u201ca macabre tone-poem,\u201d Hough\u2019s work musically recounts Cather\u2019s story of a wedding unraveling into a drunken banquet, a sleigh ride across the snowy steppes, and the subsequent \u201cmurder by wolves\u201d committed by two callous brothers.<\/p>\n

The work is part of \u201cThe Unfolding of Music,\u201d a program that includes works by Telemann, Beethoven, Schumann and Bart\u00f3k. Featured artists include pianists Hyeyeon Park and Wu Han; violinists Aaron Boyd, Stella Chen, Jessica Lee and Arnaud Sussmann; cellists David Finckel and Dmitri Atapine; and horn player Kevin Rivard.<\/p>\n

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The concerts are set for July 26 at 4 p.m. and July 28 at 7 p.m. at the Spieker Center for the Arts on the Menlo School campus, 50 Valparaiso Ave. in Atherton. Tickets are $25-$90 at https:\/\/bit.ly\/4hbqnBe.<\/p>\n

Permanent free tuition<\/h4>\n

The San Mateo County Community College District has made its free tuition program permanent following a signature from Gov. Gavin Newsom,\u00a0The Daily Journal\u00a0reported.\u00a0Senate Bill 968, signed into law by the governor, disregarded the 2028 sunset date for the Free College pilot program.<\/p>\n

Since the pilot began in 2023, the program has served more than 35,000 students, according to The Journal. The program has helped boost enrollment by 24%, and supported student success. The majority of its population are students of color and first-generation college students.<\/p>\n

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\u2014EdSource staff<\/em><\/p>\n

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