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Notes Going Into The Weekend Eddie Locke may have been typecast late in life, but he was flexible and thoroughly modern....
Wynton Marsalis, le Chevalier 25 years at the top in New York City, still playing and working at jazz...
Ah, the French! What they make of ballet in Frederick Wiseman's "La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet"...
Stacy Rowles, 1955-2009 Family members and friends are planning a memorial service for Stacy Rowles....
Arts policy, reconsidered Former NEA chair and recent Obama Arts and Humanities advisor Bill Ivey explores the future of creative expression in Madison this Thursday, November 12....
Circles of Influence Mapping the social links between the members of the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities....
Choreographer Karole Armitage uses Africans as props; Taiwanese dance and music troupe brings ancient debauchery to life...
Mr. Brendel, thank you ... an unseen hand has kept its hold over a player and his listeners alike for decades ... Through a long and magnificent career, Mr. Brendel has brought us to an understanding, and a love...
Susan Graham's Nightmare Susan Graham on things that go bump in the night...
Garth "Lion King" Fagan in a subdued mood...
Spooky shows from Bill T. Jones and Joe Goode on the West Coast work the nerves...
How much is originality worth? We consider the case of Belgian choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui's "Orbo Novo," at the Joyce this week....
Snapshot This week's video: Mike Wallace interviews Aldous Huxley in 1958....
Diana Who? Damrau defies comparisons to Dessay...
Quality Control Classical music is permeated with judgment making ... The greatest risk is in the making of music itself...
Why the Balanchine Trust (and other arts organizations) may have to play the heavy in shutting down YouTube clips. Foot talks to someone who knows the legal ins and outs....
What would Balanchine have thought of YouTube? Foot, by way of Arlene Croce and Jonathan Lethem, makes an educated guess....
Ascent In a lot of older European music, gestures that rise into high registers don't just go up -- they "ascend." High notes are up there -- where God is? A place a human might aspire to, but not confidently occupy...
Going, Going ... But Far From Gone Burt Britton's fabled collection of writers' self-portraits was auctioned off. But many by the best and most famous went unsold....
Precedent I am thankful there are no early twentieth-century recordings of Chopin's Polonaise-fantaisie...
Last time's a charm What artists do when they know they're about to die....
Encore And More: Skvorecky And Viklický From Prague, a Rifftides story about Josef Škvorecký and Emil Viklický gets an unexpected update....
How many? The obvious question: "How many concerts have you played?"...
One Hand How specifically do composers intend piano music to be played by one hand or the other?...