PARIS — Celine Dion made a triumphant return Friday with a very public performance: closing out the Paris Olympics’ opening ceremony from the Eiffel Tower. Nearly two years after revealing her stiff person syndrome diagnosis, Dion belted Edith Piaf’s “Hymne à l’amour” as the finale of the roughly four-hour spectacle. On a page dedicated to Dior’s contributions to the opening …
NEW ORLEANS — Emily Bauman is a believer in the power of music. Bauman and a friend funded the stimulus serenade, a concert for front-line health care workers in one of the nation’s coronavirus hot spots, and a paying gig for musicians who badly need one. Health care workers in masks and hair coverings hoisted umbrellas and waved handkerchiefs, danced …