Viewing The Night Sky, And A ‘Passion-ate’ 300th Anniversary

Travis Novitsky is a park manager for the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources and an enrolled member in the Grand Portage Anishinaabe Nation. He’s also a nature and wildlife photographer who has taken countless images of the night sky, which he shared this week with members of BIPOC Outdoors Twin Ports. Excerpts will be heard on “Simply Superior” at 10 a.m. Friday, March 22. One hint: Although he concentrates on the skies over Minnesota, he says the best place to view the Aurora Borealis is over Lake Superior — from the Wisconsin side.

Plus: The University of Wisconsin-Superior has had a busy concert season, earlier this month performing the moving “Music of Terezin: Hope and Resistance” — composed in the Terezin Concentration Camp during the Holocaust. In April, the choir will join with that of the College St. Scholastica to present J.S. Bach’s St. John Passion on its 300th anniversary. Professor Michael Fuchs, who’s just published a book on the work, and student alto Elise Besonen join host Robin Washington to discuss the musical offerings.