"Last year The Sun ran a story that started: 'Convicts at a drug-plagued prison performed a lavish version of musical Les Misérables for the public " to boost lags' morale.' Two years earli…
"[He] left a relatively small body of compositions, but his fastidious and elegant works are filled with emotional eddies. He wrote mostly for Western instruments, but made them bend single …
Earlier this week, news broke that three musicians, all South Korean nationals, in the Eastman Philharmonia, the student orchestra of the Eastman School of Music, had been denied visas to en…
In a sort of sequel to last week's New Republic article on how Mr. Condé Montrose Nast created the high-end glossy magazine industry, writer Reeves Wiedeman visits the (shrinking) Condé Na…
"The case was brought by the paintings' owners, Stanley and Gail Hollander, in 2007. They sought more than $90m in damages in connection with a claim for alleged loss in value on the [Martin…
"An institution in Britain, Have I Got News For You began airing in 1990 and runs on Friday nights on the BBC's main channel, averaging 4 million viewers. … Political guests are subject to…
A 78-episode adaptation of the Hindu epic Ramayana, broadcast every Sunday morning for 18 months in 1987-88 on what was then India's only TV channel, was seen by up to 100 million people. Li…
"Anupama Chandrasekhar isn't one to shy away from a tough subject. The Indian playwright has written about acid attacks, sex tapes and her home country's culture of patriarchal violence. 'I …
This January, the American Booksellers Association Bookshop will launch Bookshop, "a mobile-friendly website with one-click ordering à la Amazon that … will sell physical books and digi…
The track on this Duke Ellington LP that hit me hardest was "Sepia Panorama," which featured Jimmy Blanton. I had only just started teaching myself how to play string badd, and Blanton was t…
It wasn't until I sat down with this album from my father's collection that I started to grasp that its star was far more than just a charming but old-fashioned minstrel-show entertainer wit…
The young Canadian drummer Harry Vetro has followed his debut album as a leader, Northern Ranger, with a shorter CD of four tracks. The new album has a similar title, Eastern Stranger, but p…
Named for Rocinha, with 70,000 residents the largest favela in Brazil, Rocywood is a production company formed by five young Rio filmmakers. Their budget per film averages around $50 (US), w…
Founding music director Marat Bisangaliev says that launching the Symphony Orchestra of India back in 2006 was a serious challenge: with the country's own art music traditions dominant, the …
Head usher Tanya Heath at the Forrest Theatre in Philadelphia begins working her miracle with a talk like this: "May I have your attention, please. We are at minute five out of a 20-minute i…
"Brexlit is uniting literary authors across genres, settings and sales brackets. And unlike nonfiction about Brexit, it offers escape as well as insight: an opportunity to understand the nua…
"That question took us on a journey from Appalachian front porches, to dance classes across our nation, to the halls of Congress, and finally a Kansas City convention center. And along the w…
"When Kauffman steps down [following next summer's festival], he will have finished his 20th year in a post held by only two other 'full-time, professional' leaders, according to the festiva…
"As Paramount's head of worldwide production from 1966 to 1975, he was credited with helping lift the company's sagging fortunes with a staggering variety of popular and often critical hits.…
That would be why the fire department in Cumberland County, Tennessee ordered it closed seven years ago. Horace Burgess, a landscape architect and ordained minister, began building the 97-fo…
"Though it calls itself a 'nonpartisan forum for values-based leadership and the exchange of ideas', it is more accurately described as a cross between a think-tank, a celebrity summer camp …
"Around 1975, the art curator Alanna Heiss came across a hulking dilapidated schoolhouse in Long Island City during one of her scoping expeditions for exhibit spaces. … Heiss, who came to …
Said a statement from the actors' union, "The fact that [a performer] is trans may be completely invisible in the role or production, but it powerfully represents diversity in the industry. …
This just in from Lisa Lapin, the Getty Trust's vice president for communications: "Situation improved, but still active. Fire Department estimates 48-72 hours to control and extinguish. We …
How often do we go to cabaret or a jazz club in London? In truth, not often. But I've been twice in the last year, to catch an autobiographical musical gig by the veteran movie, tv and stage…