Dusty Christensen
ReporterDusty Christensen is an investigative reporter for NEPM. He currently teaches news writing and reporting at UMass Amherst.
As an international correspondent, he has covered topics ranging from Ukraine’s nuclear industry to U.S. retirees gentrifying small indigenous villages in Ecuador, reporting for outlets including The Nation magazine, WNYC radio, NPR, Haaretz and PBS.
As a local reporter in western Massachusetts, his work has appeared in newspapers including the Daily Hampshire Gazette — where he was a staff writer for five years — The Boston Globe, The Berkshire Eagle, the Greenfield Recorder and the Valley Advocate.
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"Because I Could Not Stop: An Encounter with Emily Dickinson" with music by Amy Beach. -
Violinist Eldbjørg Hemsing Virtual Concert -
Tania Miller leads the Springfield Symphony Orchestra on November 5 in a program featuring Mozart’s Symphony No. 36, Brahms Symphony No. 3 and "The Messenger" by contemporary Ukrainian composer Valentin Silvestrov. -
Tianhui Ng is director of orchestral studies at Mt. Holyoke College, and he is the music director of the Victory Players, the Pioneer Valley Symphony, the Boston Opera Collaborative and White Snake Projects. -
Composer Gabriel Bouche Caro uses a colloquial term to describe the political status of Puerto Rico: "Ni fú, ni fa," roughly translating to "neither here nor there." -
What can one single voice do amid all the noise of the world? That is a question central to composer Tony Solitro's "Canción Exaltada." -
When composer Iván Enrique Rodriguez moved from Puerto Rico to the mainland U.S., his sense of "Puerto Rican-ness" slowly shifted. -
The title for composer Armando Bayolo's contribution to El Puerto Rico, "Nadie Puede Dar Lo Que No Lo Tiene," comes from Ramón Emeterio Betances, the leader of a failed uprising against Spanish rule in 1868. -
Composer Liliya Ugay's experience of Puerto Rico exists only in her imagination. She had originally planned to travel there prior to the pandemic, but has only gotten as close as Florida. Her composition focuses on the idea of the "Island of Enchantment." -
At a protest centered around the death of George Floyd in 2020, composer J.J. Peña Aguayo saw bomba musicians leading the way.
