The Premiere Of Leonard Bernstein’s “Mass”: An Oral History
"Lenny was feverishly finishing music even as the premiere was approaching. I remember hearing that Alvin Ailey would be waiting for the next piece...
This Summer’s Movie Box Office: Disappointing. Cause: Not Enough Movies
It was the lowest haul since 2001, when summer movies earned $3.34 billion at domestic theaters. The summer season typically accounts for about 40%...
DALL-E, The AI Software That Generates Art, Figures Out What’s Just Beyond The Frame...
Some of the images, like Grant Wood's American Gothic and van Gogh's The Night Café and Hokusai's The Wave, work pretty well. Others, like...
Norman Lear, Now 100, Says Maude Is The Character Who’s Most Like Him
"I thought of Maude as a horseshit liberal. She was altogether liberal, but she knew far less than she should know to support her...
32 Heritage Sites In South Korea Have Been Damaged By A Typhoon
The largest storm ever recorded in the country, Typhoon Hannamnor roared through on Monday. Luckily, no serious destruction has been reported, but several sites...
Southwest Virginia Has No PBS Station. It’s Getting One Next Year, All-Digital
PBS Appalachia Virginia, a streaming service operated by Blue Ridge PBS in Roanoke, will have dedicated staff and studios in Abingdon producing local programming. ...
Anne Garrels, One Of NPR’s Bravest Correspondents, Is Dead At 71
She snuck into war-torn Chechnya, witnessed the Tienanmen Square protests, covered the Taliban's retreat from Kabul in 2001, and did extraordinary reporting from the...
The Philadelphia Orchestra Was In London, About To Play Beethoven’s “Eroica”. Then The Queen...
The concert itself was cancelled, but that doesn't mean the orchestra didn't perform: instead, these musicians from the capital of the rebellious 13 colonies...
BBC Cancels The Last Night Of The Proms “As A Mark Of Respect” For...
This year's iteration of the popular and somewhat rowdy celebration of British patriotism was to have happened on Saturday evening. Friday's concert by the...
Authors, Publishers Urge New UK Government To Reform Policies On Libraries, EBooks
With the cost-of-living crisis taking hold, the publishing industry hopes Truss and her government will bring in a range of measures to ensure people...
How COVID Changed The Gallery Opening Reception
“If we do three smaller events around an opening, it’s just that much better for the artist and for my team to be able...
The Minefield Of Staging Shakespeare Today
"It is a feeling of being in a minefield where some things are permitted and some not, but you don’t know which, or that...
Tom Stoppard At 85
At 85, he retains, as Daphne Merkin once wrote in The New York Times, a louche glamour, “like a lounge lizard who reads Flaubert.” The house...
Has Roger Norrington Finally Unlocked The Mozart Code?
"I’ve tried to play Mozart well for 60 years now. When I started I had little clue. How fast should it go? (There are...
Sundance’s Next Leader
Hernandez, who currently serves as the senior vice president of Film at Lincoln Center, the executive director of the New York Film Festival and the...
Peter Straub, Author Of Horror Classics “If You Could See Me Now”, “Ghost Story”,...
"One of the most celebrated writers of tales of horror, psychological thrillers and stories, ... he was the winner of numerous prizes, including the...
The Avant Garde: I Used To Be A Contendah!
An avant-garde likes to present itself as insurgent and radical, yet the logic of the metaphor suggests that a new group will soon be...
World’s Second-Biggest Movie Theater Chain Files For Bankruptcy
Cineworld, which owns Regal Cinemas in the US and Cineworld and Picturehouse theatres in the UK, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in US federal...
What Luck In War Teaches Us About Your Odds In Life
It is not just in war and sport that luck plays such a great part. In our interconnected global economy, every business operates in...
Bernard Shaw, CNN’s First Chief News Anchor, Dead At 82
"(He) was the cable news channel's lead anchor for two decades until his retirement in 2001. During his tenure, Shaw anchored major breaking news...
When Goethe’s House Was Destroyed In WWII, Rebuilding Became Controversial
As Goethe later recalled in his autobiography, it was to the house that he owed his literary awakening. It was there, gazing at his family’s...
The Odesa Philharmonic, And The American Who’s Been Conducting It For 30 Years
Hobart Earle, who's currently helming the orchestra on a special visit to Berlin: "I never imagined that I would be a long-term music director. ...
Canada’s Griffin Prize For Poetry Goes International
In announcing this shift, prize founder Scott Griffin said that Canadian poets are capable of competing on the world stage. “Yes, Canadians will not...
National Geographic Cuts Six People From The Top Of Its Masthead
"High-level (layoffs) are unusual for any established magazine, and they are unprecedented for National Geographic, which has enjoyed stable editorial leadership since its founding...
Lea Michele And Her Six Standing Ovations: An Eyewitness Report From Her First Performance...
"After a decades-long, controversy-filled history of desperately wanting to play Fanny Brice, Lea Michele was finally in the role on Broadway. At the first...
