Tag: 02.06.21
Composer Anthony Davis At 70
Awards don’t help us quantify these qualities, but for a composer who burst onto the operatic scene so spectacularly with X: The Life and...
SF School Board Chief Explains Why Lincoln And Washington Names Were Removed From Schools
"There’s this idea that because we’re removing the names we’re somehow removing the stories in what we’re learning, and that in fact is not...
David Stull Discusses Acquiring Opus 3
The president of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music speaks about the school's historic acquisition of Opus 3 Artists. - Aaron Dworkin
Charles McGee, Dean Of Detroit Artists, 96
McGee, the prodigious dean of Detroit’s visual arts scene whose works can be seen everywhere from the Detroit Institute of Arts to the Broadway...
Let Us All Now Praise Christopher Plummer
Look ... "He wasn’t just a pro. If there were a fabulous comic-book A-team of character actors — an Expendables, a Wild Bunch, an...
Edinburgh’s Royal High School, With Its Greek Revival Architecture, Was Saved From Development
Or from bad development, anyway. Now it's up for bids not for sale but for "sustainable longterm uses." The fight against a luxury hotel...
Robert Jones, Film Editor Of Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner And Love Story, 84
Jones dropped out of college, and yes, started his career working in the shipping room at 20th Century Fox. "The Los Angeles native scored...
If Britain Takes Its Vaccination Strategy From ‘Contagion,’ A Movie, So What?
A lot of science fiction and fantasy predicts the future - so why not a well-researched movie about a pandemic? (It's worth noting that...
Director Kelly Reichardt On The Commitment To A Daily Process Of Making Art
The director of Meek's Cutoff and First Cow is also feeling, well, a bit cynical. "There’s so much celebration of women and people of...