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The Philadelphia Boys Choir and Chorale has named Anne Hagan its first executive director. Hagan was assistant vice president of Institutional Advancement for Drexel University...American Masters’ “John James Audubon: Drawn from Nature” features scenes shot in Philadelphia’s Conservation Center for the Arts and Historic Artifacts, and uses the Academy of Natural Science’s copy of Audubon’s Birds of America and some of the original Audubon bird specimens in the Academy's collection. The show airs on PBS July 25...Speaking of Birds of America, the American Philosophical Society has taken out its copy of the 40”x 26 ½” folio (pictured), which has never been on public display, as part of its exhibition, “Undaunted: Five American Explorers, 1760-2007, which runs through December...The Wilma Theatre’s Blanka Zizka will guest-direct Janácek’s Kát’a Kabánova for the Academy of Vocal Arts in February. The opera will be sung in Czech...Stephen Wilcox, a University of Pennsylvania Ph.D student, was one of seven composers chosen for the Minnesota Orchestra’s 2007 Composer Institute.