From The Newsroom: Hurricane Katrina Opera Opens, Eight Track Museum To Close

KERA | By Courtney Collins

Published April 2, 2015 at 6:39 PM CDT

The 'Wading Home' orchestra during rehearsal.

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This August marks ten years since Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans and the gulf coast. Thursday night, a chamber opera about Katrina called Wading Home, will premiere in a workshop production at the City Performance Hall.

And this July, say goodbye to the Eight Track Museum in Deep Ellum.

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Courtney Collins

Courtney Collins has been working as a broadcast journalist since graduating from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University in 2004. Before coming to KERA in 2011, Courtney worked as a reporter for NPR member station WAMU in Washington D.C. While there she covered daily news and reported for the station’s weekly news magazine, Metro Connection.

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