Richard Bonte is a Bradenton resident and a native-born New Yorker. He has lived much of his life in Canada, California and Western Europe. He has worn many hats in his life including playwright, bi-coastal actor, teacher, writer, linguist and phonetician. He has advanced degrees from Berkeley, UCLA and the Sorbonne. Richard has written fourteen novels (including ‘Curmudgeonly Yours’ (2017), been given the FAPA (Florida Authors and Publishers Association) 2018 Silver Award for Humor), several plays and screenplays. His last two novels The Wuhan Tentacles and Grand Cayman, Exposed both co-written with James Crew Allen, are set in present-day Wuhan, China and Grand Cayman, respectively.  “Curmudgeonly Yours” is a show on ‘comparative modern Western life. The title comes from Richard Bonte’s humorous book of the same name, Curmudgeonly Yours. In his sometimes-multilingual show, host and author Richard Bonte interviews guests from different countries to get their take on ideas and problems facing the Western world.

Richard Bonte is a Bradenton resident and a native-born New Yorker. He has lived much of his life in Canada, California and Western Europe. He has worn many hats in his life including playwright, bi-coastal actor, teacher, writer, linguist and phonetician. He has advanced degrees from Berkeley, UCLA and the Sorbonne. Richard has written fourteen novels (including ‘Curmudgeonly Yours’ (2017), been given the FAPA (Florida Authors and Publishers Association) 2018 Silver Award for Humor), several plays and screenplays. His last two novels The Wuhan Tentacles and Grand Cayman, Exposed both co-written with James Crew Allen, are set in present-day Wuhan, China and Grand Cayman, respectively.  “Curmudgeonly Yours” is a show on ‘comparative modern Western life. The title comes from Richard Bonte’s humorous book of the same name, Curmudgeonly Yours. In his sometimes-multilingual show, host and author Richard Bonte interviews guests from different countries to get their take on ideas and problems facing the Western world.

James L. Blackburn is a writer and freelance journalist living in southwest Florida with occasional expeditions to Ecuador. He has a B.A. in the Humanities and an M.A. in English. He speaks English, Spanish and French, has done a lot of traveling and has been to Ecuador six times on humanitarian projects

Ettore Farinelli is an architect living in Rome, Italy He is the CEO of his company, ‘Silo Impianti’ (‘Silo Works’) that deals in solar and Eolic or wind energy; he is also involved in the construction, renovation and maintenance of buildings like embassies or ministries). Since he has a lot of energy, he also builds and restructures prestigious buildings for friends and clients.  Ettore is an avid skier and loves to go boating in beautiful Sardinia. Art and architecture are his passions, but he can talk about any subject. 

Thomas Pépin Lehalleur is a French national who has lived all his life in France.  After passing his baccalaureate, he became a tennis instructor and First Aid specialist. Today, he is a first-class blogger and writer with definite ideas on French politics and economics. His blog is inutilejournal.blogspot.com.

Richard Bonte is a Bradenton resident and a native-born New Yorker. He has lived much of his life in Canada, California and Western Europe. He has worn many hats in his life including playwright, bi-coastal actor, teacher, writer, linguist and phonetician. He has advanced degrees from Berkeley, UCLA and the Sorbonne. Richard has written fourteen novels (including ‘Curmudgeonly Yours’ (2017), been given the FAPA (Florida Authors and Publishers Association) 2018 Silver Award for Humor), several plays and screenplays. His last two novels The Wuhan Tentacles and Grand Cayman, Exposed both co-written with James Crew Allen, are set in present-day Wuhan, China and Grand Cayman, respectively.  “Curmudgeonly Yours” is a show on ‘comparative modern Western life. The title comes from Richard Bonte’s humorous book of the same name, Curmudgeonly Yours. In his sometimes-multilingual show, host and author Richard Bonte interviews guests from different countries to get their take on ideas and problems facing the Western world.

Website: www.kathrynlevison.com Email: [email protected] Bio: Kathryn Levison is a successful Indie writer and holds two legitimate bachelor’s degrees—one in psychology and one in English composition—from a real live accredited university. She’s earned two honorary degrees from her analyst: an undergrad in Psychoanalysis, and a master’s in Not Giving Up. She’s now working toward a doctorate in Dedication to Her Path and manages the FB page “Culture Coast Writers.” She has eight self-published works in Kindle, one ranking in the low 300’s that hit the top 100 the weekend it went live, and two more in the mid-600’s. As she says, she “writes all over the place,” which she considers a gift, a lot like being able to play three woodwinds plus piano. Originally from the Chicago ‘burns,’ she lives on the Gulf Coast of Florida, making ends meet as a freelance blogger and sharing a forty-year-old single-wide trailer with her rescue dog, Tami. #Italian, #French, #screenwriting, #plays, #politics, #Trump, #fashion, #acting, #writing, #music, #literature, #current events, #culture, #Society_Bytes_Radio, #Radio_Ear_Network, #Amanatee_Group

Robert Vodnoy is the music director of the Chamber Orchestra of Sarasota which he founded in 2017. He is also the conductor and music director of the Whiting Park Festival Orchestra. Music Director Vodnoy has guest-conducted numerous orchestras throughout the world, including the Symphony Orchestra of the Zhejiang Song and Dance Theatre (China), the Orchestra Sinfonica di San Remo (Italy), the Czech National Symphony and the Seoul Philharmonic, just to name a little of what he’s done. Professor Vodnoy was the long-tenured music director of the Southwest Michigan Symphony and the Northwest Indiana Symphony. He also holds a BM summa cum laude and an MM in composition from the University of Hartford. Soloist Joseph Kingma is the first-prize winner of the Franz Liszt International Piano Competition. Beethoven’s “Emperor” Piano Concerto is arranged for piano and string orchestra and will be the featured work in the March 16 concert.

Kathryn Levison is a successful Indie writer and holds two legitimate bachelor’s degrees—one in psychology and one in English composition—from a real live accredited university. She’s earned two honorary degrees from her analyst: an undergrad in Psychoanalysis, and a master’s in Not Giving Up. She’s now working toward a doctorate in Dedication to Her Path and manages the FB page “Culture Coast Writers.”She has eight self-published works in Kindle, one ranking in the low 300’s that hit the top 100 the weekend it went live, and two more in the mid-600’s. As she says, she “writes all over the place,” which she considers a gift, a lot like being able to play three woodwinds plus piano. Originally from the Chicago ‘burns,’ she lives on the Gulf Coast of Florida, making ends meet as a freelance blogger and sharing a forty-year-old single-wide trailer with her rescue dog, Tami.

Robert Vodnoy is the music director of the Chamber Orchestra of Sarasota which he founded in 2017. During the summer season, he is the conductor and music director of the Whiting Park Festival Orchestra, which performs a huge array of popular and classical favorites on the Chicago Lakefront. This past summer was his 18th season with the Whiting Park Orchestra. In October, just prior to returning to Florida, he conducted the fall production of Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd: the Demon Barber of Fleet Street at the Memorial Opera House in Valparaiso, Indiana. Professor Vodnoy has guest-conducted numerous orchestras throughout the world, including the Symphony Orchestra of the Zhejiang Song and Dance Theatre (China), the Orchestra Sinfonica di San Remo (Italy), the Czech National Symphony and the Seoul Philharmonic, just to name a little of what he’s done. Robert Vodnoy was the long-tenured music director of the Southwest Michigan Symphony and the Northwest Indiana Symphony. He also holds a BM summa cum laude and an MM in composition from the University of Hartford.