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Michelle Johnson is an award-winning radio, print, and multimedia journalist who has also done stints as a youth worker, house cleaner and community college instructor. Her love affair with radio began when she was a girl in the rural Midwest, listening to Jack Buck call the play-by-play for the St. Louis Cardinals. She has an undergraduate degree from Augustana College in Illinois, a master's degree from the University of Minnesota, and she did graduate studies in communication and technology at UNC Chapel Hill's School of Journalism. The magic of radio, she says, is the way it can make our worlds a little larger and a little smaller all at once.

Arts
3:44 pm
Fri April 5, 2013

Remembering Robert Ward

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Renowned American composer Robert Ward passed away early Wednesday at the age of 95.

  • Composer, educator and administrator Robert Ward spoke with WFDD's David Ford about the early beginnings of Ward's Pulitzer Prize-winning opera The Crucible.

  Robert Ward, a former chancellor of UNC School of the Arts and a Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, died early Wednesday at his home in Durham after a period of failing health. He was 95.

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