This week's video: Gary Burton and Larry Coryell, performing live in 1967 with the Burton Quartet: http://tinyurl.com/2dzm5j7
August 2010 Archives
Is it financially beneficial to provide transportation to your venue?
Continue reading Baby you can drive my bus.
Regional Funding Differences Perpetuate The Unequal Distribution Of The Arts
Continue reading Thank Goodness I Live In New York.
And is that such a good deal?
Continue reading Sony snap up the Vienna Philharmonic.
Help. I got the social media blues
Continue reading Confessions of a Twitter-Phobe.
As far as I know, this is the first time I've been quoted in Magyar
Continue reading Chet Baker: Words And Music.
The deCordova Museum Hosts A Pre-School In What May Be An Arts Breakthrough
Continue reading A Nationwide Education First.
Angels in America
Continue reading Kerry James Marshall & Judith Page.
Tears at The New London Theatre and Laughter at The Globe.
Continue reading Two Contrasting London Shows.
Perhaps those engaged in arts ed lobbying believe that class- and race-based melodramas best sway elected officials and philanthropic organizations. Or perhaps they genuinely find the social and personal benefits of arts instruction more compelling than the arts themselves.
Continue reading Former Arts Endowment Official Takes Arts Ed Advocates To Task.
It's August. It's Monday. Delay it for 6:20.
Continue reading Miss the Emmy's? (Jon Hamm Can Sing and Dance! Edition).
and some very good news for the Met
Continue reading Two looming big holes in British opera.
The boss reveals all in The Lebrecht Interview
Continue reading How did he get to Carnegie Hall?.
Eight days on the road.
Continue reading Take to the highway.
A Critic Asks If Advocates Are Making The Strongest Argument -- And Answers No
Continue reading What's So Good About Arts Education?.
Trumpeter Johnny Coles (1926-1997) was an insiders' favorite barely known to the general public.
Continue reading The Johnny Coles Discography.
Son of glass artist Paul Marioni, Dante grew up with glass, taking his first rod out of the furnace at age 10 and saturating himself in his teens in the practice, history and aesthetic possibilities of the medium
Continue reading Dante Marioni - the purity of Pop.
August dances and reviews
Final review for a terrific show that will not travel and does not have a catalog
Continue reading Kurt Cobain - last days.
Today's WSJ Posits An Answer
Continue reading Which Composer Has Brought More People To Great Music Than Any Other?.
In everything she does, there is always the wound and the struggle to survive it
Continue reading Marita Dingus - relics of the African diaspora.
Beyond the Swing Era's Savory Collection, thrilling new archival discoveries
Continue reading Hear it now: Unknown jazz of '70s, '80s and Varese.
...and no, it's not The Met's new Ring.
Continue reading The Opera Event of the Season!.
In 1997, Jacob Lawrence called him the young artist he would most like to see achieve wider recognition
Continue reading Juan Alonso - between ironwork and smoke.
Buddy Rich plays "Love for Sale" in 1970.
Continue reading Sursum corda.
Are These The Best Art Museum Blogs? "Recommended Reading" About The Future
Continue reading An "Awesome" Roster.
American Players Theatre's "Another Part of the Forest" and "Major Barbara" reviewed.
Continue reading Regina the First.
In images
Continue reading Ophelia - 6 alternatives to drowning.
Further evidence has come in verifying the value of that cache of previously unheard recordings in the Savory Collection at the National Jazz Museum in Harlem.
Continue reading Bits From The Savory Collection.
We're rallying arts supporters so Meg and Jerry know we're serious
Continue reading Chasing the Biggest Racers of the Year.
Have we got a new measurement of the jazz audience? Yes, no and yes
Continue reading Twitter #jazzlives campaign, after one year.
Vice Magazine reviews recently released classical discs. ("Harp! F-ing Mozart. Man, I'd love to fight that guy.")
Continue reading The Best Thing You'll Read This Week.
Continue reading You've read the warnings about Ryanair. Now it's official.
Bill Sharpe offers a lovely and engaging treatise on art, economies, and the exchange of meaning.
Continue reading Economies of Life.
The Taubman, Less Than Two Years Old, Has Slashed Staff From 52 To 17, But Still Can't See The Light
Continue reading Another Museum In Trouble.
What brings the art critic-in-absentia here is not art, but tennis. Will he be tempted to visit museums?
Continue reading Michael Kimmelman, NY Times' Chief Art Critic, Returns to NYC!.
What Do-Ho Suh floats, Yamamoto makes as heavy as a tomb
Continue reading Lynne Yamamoto - personally anonymous.
Some jobs in marketing and PR in New York City.
Continue reading Calling all PR pros.
Something's Amiss In New Britain, And Maybe At The Walters. Potent Kool-Aid
Continue reading Which Work Would You Rather View?.
Aside from the cheap space, cheap shrimp cocktails and free parking, Bavington likes the neon at dusk. Dusk is the magic hour, when the signs are smeared against the sky, fighting the dark
Continue reading Tim Bavington - Las Vegas magic hour.
Court has NOT prohibited a $30-million, half-share sale of Stieglitz Collection to Crystal Bridges. It wants details modified.
Continue reading Decision Confusion: AAMD's Statement on Fisk/Stieglitz.
Notions of "good" teachers vary among parents, other teachers, administrators, policymakers, researchers, and, of course, journalists.
Continue reading Judging Teachers by Test Scores? Not quite..
Deadlines are stacking up around here like cordwood or like the piles of CDs I haven't heard.
Continue reading I'm Typing As Fast As I Can.
This week's video: Monty Woolley in "The Man Who Came to Dinner."
Continue reading Snapshot.
Botero's Museum In Bogota Says Much About Him. Yet It Could Have Been Much Better If Only..
Continue reading The Artist As Patron.
City can't have too many contemporary museums---especially when major holdings and $200-million endowment are involved. Museum or mausoleum?
Continue reading Eli's Coming: A Win-Win for Broad and Downtown LA UPDATED.
Looking at a selection of classical musicians who use Twitter and Facebook and how they use them.
Continue reading I will follow him.
It couldn't happen to better reporter or publication. But allow me to chew my sour grapes. Link to WSJ piece.
Continue reading And Kaywin Feldman's AAMD Exclusive Interview Goes to....
Love and Respect.
Continue reading What do Children Need the Most?.
That's The Trend Among New Museum Directors. Is This The Right Track?
Continue reading Replacing Cultural Cathedrals With Town Squares.
Are you unable/unwilling to stop and think through what options make the most sense in light of your mission? No problem!
Continue reading Shortcutting Social Media.
Is there a writer alive who wouldn't kill for a review like Jessica Brown's?
Continue reading Supervert Gets Into Her Head.
In a single passage of piano writing, three distinct styles come and go
Continue reading Luigi Beethoven -- postmodernist.
Continue reading The pianist who changed his name twice.
What I Learned On My Summer Vacation: Gold And Mummies Star
Continue reading The Art Of Colombia.
Like the unnamed narrator of his first novel, Life With A Star, the Jewish writer Jiri Weil had a chance to escape from Prague just before the German invasion in 1939, but he couldn't bear to leave
Continue reading Jiri Weil, Jesse Edward & The Hooters: I'm Alive.
Some thoughts on gratuitous nastiness in public discourse.
Continue reading Entry from an unkept diary.
If those "new" solos by Lester Young and Coleman Hawkins are as stunning as the few people who have listened to them say they are, let us hear them.
Continue reading Congress's UnSavory Copyright Conundrum.
No matter what genre or artist we are advocating for, do we need to adjust our efforts due to the declining opportunities for chance discovery?
Continue reading Music, With Occasional Cooking.
Continue reading Why Mahler? an orchestral player reflects.
Attention For "The Mark Of A Masterpiece" Better Late Than Never. Bravo David Grann
Continue reading Science Or Connoisseurship?.
...the plight of the Gypsies has generated renewed attention to a Gypsy who has been dead for nearly 60 years.
Continue reading Sarkozy, The Roma And Django.
University demonstrates serious case of delusional wishful thinking in characterizing today's ruling. There's no court mandate for $30-million payout.
Continue reading Fisk's Reaction to Court Decision: $30-Million Smokescreen.
AG says: "Join us in seizing this opportunity...to look for constructive and creative alternatives." Frist Center says: "No comment."
Continue reading Fisk Decision: Reactions from Attorney General and Frist Center.
Time plucks objects out of its stream and leaves them stranded on the shore. Words too ride a curve around a bend and hurtle forward into a different meaning
Continue reading Catholic school in the '50s - the impenetrable past.
AG gets 20 days to devise a plan to keep collection in Nashville. Read entire decision at link on CultureGrrl.
Continue reading Fisk Decision: Judge Seeks Proposal to Keep Stieglitz Works in Nashville.
Larry Harlow's Latin-jazz extravaganza, 30+ years later at Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors
Continue reading A salsa suite success.
You share a glass of wine with friends and discuss art all the time...now share one with candidates and call it advocacy
Continue reading Advocacy with Libations.
A must-read for every soloist and singer
Continue reading Leaked e-mail: how an agent can make your life hell.
Westport Country Playhouse's "I Do! I Do!" and Barrington Stage's "Absurd Person Singular" reviewed.
Continue reading Good times, bad times.
Curated by the audience
Continue reading The disco chandelier - reader picks.
The Onion reports that Chad Ochocinco and Terrell Owens are "writing the libretto and music for, and start preliminary blocking on, a new touchdown-celebration"; the Phillies host social media nights.
Continue reading Touchdown.
Brooklyn Museum's Lehman, And Board, Create More Evening Hours -- Staying Open To 10 PM Two Nights A Week
Continue reading Hallelujah: A Smart Retort.
The social media platform now knows where you're standing.
Continue reading Are your ready for Facebook Place?.
Are The Arts Suffering Bigger Losses In Foundation Giving Than Other Categories? No, They're Gaining Share
Continue reading Recessionary Blues.
Fisk's attorney blasts Stieglitz Collection as "ugly" and "Caucasian." So Walton's crazy to spend $30 milllion? Fisk/Frist discussions described.
"We have a big, difficult challenge before us," said Superintendent Jerry Colonna. And, it's going to take a huge commitment from community partners and individuals to make it happen, he added.
Continue reading Beaverton Oregon Bands Together Around the Arts, to Raise the i3 Match.
Continue reading Simon's coming soon to a movie house near you. Maybe..
Fractured Atlas offers another handy toolkit for the independent arts.
Continue reading Connecting the dots, again.
OK, That's Too Harsh, But I Quibble With The New Leadership At Miami Art Museum
Continue reading I Won't Be Having A Thom Collins.
The fragile plastic CD jewel case is once again worthy of shelf space.
Continue reading The Power of Less.
Here's my weekly theater guide.
Continue reading So you want to see a show?.
Christopher Knight's disdain for Jerry Saltz has a religious quality
Continue reading Christopher Knight's high horse.
Some museums spend 10% of their operating budgets on evaluation. Are visitor and audience consultants worth the money?
Continue reading Analyze this.
Nearly 20 percent of the city's public schools still lack a certified teacher in even one of the arts disciplines.
Continue reading Teaching Arts on The Cheap.
Pollock's "Mural" is in good hands. New museum facility is first priority. Converting the 2008 flood calamity into an opportunity.
This week's video: Jack Larson talks about his Frank Lloyd Wright-designed home.
Continue reading Snapshot.
To Make A Point, Women Take Over 85% Of Museum: A Strawberry For Director
Continue reading Drastic Measures To Solve A Problem.
Continue reading Breaking news: Joyce DiDonato quits agency.
An operagoer all my life, I'm starting to hit Great Wall of Price Resistance: 12% price increase, $60 service charge.
and what time's the next cancellation?
Continue reading Rolando offers a refund.
with a cover that is harmful to our health
Continue reading Can this record save lives?.
Wednesday ends public display in New York of this Nazi-loot trophy. Museum of Jewish Heritage marks occasion with panel.
Continue reading Last Chance (and panel discussion) for "Portrait of Wally".
"Pops: A Vida de Louis Armstrong" has just been published in Brazil.
Continue reading Imperdível!.
Too many posts lately about the deaths of prominent figures in jazz. It was good to hear from someone who documents the work of young musicians.
Continue reading Correspondence, Illustrated, From Canada.
"Art just isn't the kind of thing that lends itself to no-budget, laissez-faire populism"
Continue reading The Bellevue Arts Museum nods off.
Now, Could Steven Davis Please Talk To Meier, Libeskind, etc.?
Continue reading A Refreshing Statement About Museum Architecture.
I may be on later today, tomorrow, not at all. I'll update with link to audio if/when it's available.
A concert of French Mediaeval chant, DJs, absinthe ephemera and Asian street food downtown, and a macabre magic show
Continue reading Weekend Roundup (and Extended Absence Greeting).
The communicative power of earlier music is damaged by extremely regular beating
Continue reading Off the grid.
Essential Reading for Arts Education--Untended Consequences: High Stakes Can Result in Low Standards
"...we have forgotten that the test is a measure of learning and reified the test score to the status of learning itself. The test score has become the coin of the realm and raising scores through any means has become the Holy Grail."
"We do some stuff that's different from what other people do." Gotta problem with that? Plus, Lehman's less known accomplishments.
Continue reading "Mr. Populism": My Q&A with Brooklyn's Arnold Lehman---Part II.
Advice from a top opera star
Continue reading How to cope with rejection.
Museums need to remember that's it's OK to take the money, but they don't have to kiss the customer on the lips
Continue reading The Frye Art Museum dares to be dull.
Mrs. T and I are now a part of art history.
Continue reading It's in the book.
Today's entry: Joan Mitchell on knowing when a painting is finished.
Continue reading Almanac.
Death Of Brodsky's Deaccessioning Bill May Simply Mean A Change In Tactics
Continue reading The Real Battle Isn't Over.
Show's "broad legibility" requirement thwarted my guest blogger's desire for details that only a mechanical engineer/bike-aholic could love.
Bad choices hindered the former and injuries the latter
Continue reading The closers: Work of Art/So You Think....
Some good marketing from up in the Berkshires.
Continue reading Country mouse.
Take a spin through museum's bicycle show with an avid amateur cyclist (with excellent taste in girlfriends). Any Speedvagen demos?
Continue reading Bicycle Madness at MAD: Lee Gorny, Guest Blogger.
Billy Collins says they can't. I say they can.
Continue reading Can Lyrics Survive Without Music?.
The most famous spiritual after World War I was infused with Dvorak's Largo.
Continue reading Did Dvorak Compose "Deep River"?.
Do the best things happen while you're dancing when you're simultaneously trying to advance a plot?
Continue reading Dancing Across the Screen.
Shakespeare & Company's "The Taster," "Richard III," and "The Winter's Tale" reviewed.
Continue reading Eat love die.
Even when playing torch songs on dead batteries
Continue reading An art touchstone: the disco chandelier.
On the joy kill of being told to turn off your cellphone and pay attention to your nearest emergency exit
Continue reading Down With Pre-Performance Monologues.
Manilow not only "writes the songs" but apparently also helps donate the instruments.
Continue reading Barry Manilow is Ready to Take a Chance Again--This Time on Music Ed.
Objections from a few museums quashed bill "that would have served NY well." Still, most already comply with chief provisions.
Here's my weekly theater guide.
Continue reading So you want to see a show?.
Continue reading Eugene Onegin, seen from the Royal Box.
More from those who are not afraid to go back in order to go forward
Continue reading After Curtis - the latest in high-toned romance.
A new choral ensemble in San Francisco rises in protest at Prop L
Continue reading Taking A Stand Through Song.
Or, rather, going on vacation, so no blog posts till September. But did you know that fishing is endangered in the same way that mainstream classical music is?
Continue reading Gone fishing.
Vintage social media ads.
Continue reading My Name is Peggy Olson and I'd like to post a YouTube video.
Stieglitz Collection court case resumes. AG reveals Frist Center's offer to house the collection, keeping it in Nashville, not Bentonville.
Continue reading Today's Crystal Bridges/Fisk Collection-Sharing Trial Gets a Frist Twist.
How musicians are being robbed of their down time
Continue reading So where did your summer go?.
How musicians are being robbed of their down time
Continue reading So where did your summer go?.
Continue reading Charlie's gift.
Painter, poet, promoter, Bad Boy Brion, thanks to his retrospective at the New Museum, must now be reckoned with. He invented the cut-up, used by William Burroughs. Also: sound poetry, tape poems, permutation poems, performance poems, and along the way made some beautiful and mysterious paintings.
Continue reading Brion Gysin: Bigger Than Life.
...a recital glowing with her customary pianistic dazzle and a nearly Brahmsian gravity leavened with wit.
Continue reading Recent Listening: Jessica Williams.
My stealth appearance in piece by reporter whose Brooklyn coverage I criticized. Brodsky needs to become AG to police deaccessions.
This week's video: Erle Stanley Gardner appears as the mystery guest on "What's My Line?" in 1957.
Continue reading Snapshot.
A Northwest Coast tribe uses its sudden fame for its own ends
Continue reading Twilight werewolves - the real Quileute story.
In ballet, Alastair Macaulay as few peers, but when he ventures into contemporary, the school of out-of-it is in session
Continue reading Dance criticism from the school of out-of-it.
Two dance-theatre pieces about femininity take this critic back to The Village c. 1962...but without the helpful drugs
Continue reading Throwback.
Helping (or insulting) the Brooklyn Museum, NY Times sought advice from 17 "experts." Now let's hear from Brooklyn's own director.
Continue reading "Mr. Populism": My Q&A with Brooklyn's Arnold Lehman---Part I.
My son Bernie trades in Vladimir Horowitz for an unforgettable Brahms B-flat Concerto, rendered by Claudio Arrau.
Continue reading Swapping Horowitz for Arrau.
My son Bernie trades in Vladimir Horowitz for an unforgettable Brahms B-flat Concerto, rendered by Claudio Arrau.
Continue reading Swapping Horowitz for Arrau.
I'm speaking about "Pops" in New York's Bryant Park on Wednesday at 12:30. Jon-Erik Kellso is my guest soloist.
Continue reading The return of "Pops".
I thought it was a commercial advocating in favor of net neutrality, which is, um, kinda weird, considering.
Continue reading An Open and Equal Internet For All.
Dear Reader, it's your turn to write! I'll resume posting on SEEING THINGS after Labor Day.
Continue reading It's your turn to write!.
Folksinger Marissa Nadler sells a cover album on Etsy.
Continue reading The Anti-iTunes.
Kudos to NPR for the Newport fest, and Wynton via UStream for his Marciac concert
Continue reading New? jazz format: Live broadcasts.
24 hours in a small beach town are packed with culture
Continue reading Santa Cruz Roundup.
Here are the three arts-focused i3 applications that made the cut, a big-time congratulations to all
Continue reading USDOE's i3 and the Arts: The Six Percent Solution.
The grudge match between Chicago and one of its great writers should have come to an end. It didn't.
Continue reading Ticket to New Jersey.
Continue reading 'I could have been Philip Langridge'.
Dana Hall is a busy drummer. In his case, that's a compliment
Continue reading Recent Listening: Dana Hall.
Somerset Maugham and sexual obsession.
Continue reading Entry from an unkept diary.
He became wealthy, but was leery of an essentially mercantile pursuit that he feared might sap his creativity.
Continue reading Oliver Nelson Revisited.
Continue reading Now playing at the Proms: Happy birthday, sweet sixteen.
The New York Times follows a BMI licensing executive around the American Southwest on bar, club, and coffee house calls. Anecdotes involving strippers and guns ensue.
Continue reading Pony Up For That Funky Music.
Nigel Lythgoe's breathtaking stupidity
Continue reading So You Think You Can Judge.
Do you have a right not to be written about? Elie Wiesel thinks he does.
Continue reading Shame on Elie Wiesel.
How many people responsible for the more than 31 million hits in seven weeks to a Katy Perry video realize that its chief asset comes from Will Cotton?
Continue reading Will Cotton buried alive in his own candy.
An eye-catching installation opposite San Francisco's City Hall provokes thoughts about the future of the city
Continue reading Where Birds Go Off To Die.
Continue reading Breaking news: Bryn Terfel in festival crash.
Overloading on Mahler at the BBC Proms
Continue reading Gergiev's mixed doubles.
The Peterborough Players' "Tartuffe" reviewed.
Continue reading The hypocrite's new clothes.
Today's entry: Brooke Berman on storytelling and the sense of possibility.
Continue reading Almanac.
The Philadelphia Orchestra reported the other day that it faced the possibility of "profound change. It's long seemed to me that orchestras need to reinvent themselves as educational institutions. A recent NEH teacher-training institute supplied plenty of ammunition.
Continue reading Reinventing the Orchestra: The Role of Education.
To refer to the Taliban as a medieval madness is to insult the Dark Ages
Continue reading Time leaks into the present moment.
Astrophysicist dismayed by inclusion of Pluto on otherwise strong release.
Continue reading One Ring Zero Beats Dr. Dre to the Planets Punch.
A new iPhone tool for Bay Area culture vultures debuts
Continue reading SF Arts iPhone App.
"Gross Clinic" photos sent to journalists (including me) were mischaracterized by Philadelphia Museum. Now posted: the accurate post-conservation image.
Continue reading Conservation Confusion: Philadelphia Museum's "Gross Clinic" Photo Flub.
Continue reading Guess what? Another composer in the bath....
Continue reading Three more composers in a bathtub - this time, no clothes.
Continue reading Breaking news: Pletnev pulls out.
Having Asked For The Last Roll, Photographer Steve McCurry Picks 36 Final Images
Continue reading A Farewell To Kodachrome.
Is it a publicist's job to make sure people like their clients personally?
Continue reading Popular.
When Morris Graves' reputation was fogged with the dewy breath of his mythy-minded admirers, Charles Krafft and Larry Reid cleared it with satire.
Continue reading Mystic Sons of Morris Graves.
Perhaps a Dr. Dre/Kyle Gann collaboration would be appropriate here?
Continue reading Dr. Dre Looking to Give Gustav a Run For It?.
Siena, the Tuscan hilltowns and Soriano nel Cimino are alive with the sounds of now
Continue reading New jazz in old Italy.
Continue reading The most composers you have ever seen in a bathtub.
It's not all about singin' pretty
Continue reading The Joy Of Singing Badly.
Several reasons why this is not an entirely satisfying resolution for portrait of a mistress who launched 100 lawyers' briefs.
Continue reading "Portrait of Wally" Settlement: What's Wrong With This Picture?.
Continue reading No more Sunny boy.
Bollywood posters not only reflect a graphic cultural stew, they have inspired one, sampling art and advertising from around the East and contributing to a wildly hybrid global tide
Continue reading Art on the Bollywood rebound.
Konitz is the epitome of the jazz soloist who tries never to play anything the same way twice, never coasts on clichés, even his own
Continue reading Elder Lee: Konitz At 82.
This week's video: Maria Callas interviewed by Edward R. Murrow on "Person to Person" in 1958.
Continue reading Snapshot.
In Importance: Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Provides Knowledge With A Book Series
Continue reading As Art From Latin America Grows.
Jazz listeners tended to forgive Miller the shallowness of his pop pap because he played with Charlie Parker.
Continue reading Mitch Miller And Bird.
Has there ever been a good classical music video?
Continue reading "Nothing helps, neither threat nor prayer...".
Taking August off in Seattle is bizarre
Continue reading Seattle galleries opening and on vacation.
Continue reading Breaking news: New boss at the Bolshoi - just like the movie.
On semantics, string theory and Ringo Starr's hairdo
Continue reading Coming To A Comedy Club Near You: The Chloe Veltman.
melt in plots not scores
Continue reading INCEPTION, SALT:.
Continue reading Boston Pops beat man moves to the Beeb.
33 grants out of 200 applications reviewed. $14mm appropriated. Stiffer competition than ever before. Where else can you get a four-year $1.1 million grant?
Continue reading USDOE Announces 2010 Arts Ed Model Development and Dissemination Grants.
Another breakthrough for the birthday boy
Continue reading Gustav Mahler in the Congo.
Dark reflections on a senior moment.
Continue reading Night thoughts.
Spain Gets A View Of The Hudson River. Could This Possibly Be A Breakthrough?
Continue reading It's Better Than Google Earth.
A yoga and music festival in the California mountains inspires comparisons with a more well-known festival in the nearby Nevada desert
Continue reading Burning Man for Yogis.
The producer of "Mama Will Bark" was also a great classical oboist. Hear him play Sibelius' "Swan of Tuonela" with Leopold Stokowski.
Continue reading Mitch(ell) Miller, R.I.P..
But he thought William Burroughs wrote "half of a good book." The book was "Naked Lunch."
Continue reading The Beats Left Nelson Algren Cold, Kerouac Especially.
Dobrzynski, Goldblatt, Kallir, Gibson all take an offstage bow. I'm left, though, with some nagging misgivings about the restitution settlement.
Continue reading "Portrait of Wally": Spotlight on the Offstage Heroes.
plus la change
Continue reading WIKILEAKS:.
I began speculating about what certain celebrated musicians of the past might do
Continue reading What Would Yehudi Do?.
I'm talking about "Pops" at New York's Bryant Park on Aug. 11. The New Yorker, alas, got the date wrong.
Continue reading Don't believe everything you read.
Continue reading Mahler's busiest week.
Pilobolus and Art Spiegelman; Bill T. Jones and Merce Cunningham; Rezo Gabriadze and the Battle of Stalingrad; Pichet Klunchun and Thai classical dance
Continue reading Odd--and even--couples in three weeks of dance:.
Celebrities Are The New Artists: Not Just Hopper, Nimoy and Dylan...Where Will It End?
Continue reading Curatorial Standards Sink.
"A Little Night Music" re-reviewed, with Elaine Stritch and Bernadette Peters.
Continue reading Home team strikes out.
Continue reading Want to know what really went down at the Sydney Opera?.
