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The Estonian kannel is primarily a plucked folk instrument, but these two young ladies " both of whom have studied music academically " had not played it until they found one, and decided to…
At last week's very sparsely attended press preview for this week's major auctions, I got a chance to chat about Sotheby's era of uncertainty with four of the company's principals. " Lee Ros…
Scorsese isn't inveighing against fantasy but against a system of production that submerges directors' authority in a network of dictates and decisions issued from the top down"a network in …
"The reality is that Sesame Street's impact can no longer be measured as 'Who is sitting in front of the TV watching? If you think of Sesame Street as a television show, that's long been ina…
At what cost is an externally or even cerebrally normalised life, a life of routine and regulation, elevated over a life that flops and flutters but also throbs? At what price is a life that…
The Hungarian-born pianist, who was scheduled to play and conduct in the Maison symphonique on Oct. 23 and 24, ended up performing only before intermission in both concerts. Schiff withdrew …
Under Trump, the awards stopped: He passed up chances to hand out the medals in 2017 and 2018"the longest drought in the past 35 years. But now, I'm told, he's poised to announce his first s…
"I learned that the dancer inside me doesn't care about this wheelchair. She just wanted to find a way to keep dancing. I think I'm living the life I was born to live. That was an accident, …
"Shortly after a fundraising gala-brunch on Saturday, Nov. 2, Intiman announced it had raised $130,000 in one month (including the brunch), putting the theater close to its year-end goal of …
Consultant Lauren Tan watched footage of Leonard Bernstein, Gustavo Dudamel, Manfred Honeck, and others for what their hands, eyes, faces and postures can show the rest of us about non-verba…
Having been fished out of the Moika River early Saturday morning with a backpack containing a woman's severed arms, he was in the Mariinsky Hospital, still very much alive but recovering fro…
The six-year-old French tourist who was hurled from the London museum's 10th-floor viewing platform in August has now been moved from intensive care (in a "full armour of splints") to a reha…
"There have been a couple of studies done with populations of indigenous people who live in places where there is very little background noise and elderly people in those populations tend to…
"It took years [for the organizer, artist Dread Scott,] to raise the funds of over $1m, which included money from 500 individual donations, to pull off the spectacle. But as word of mouth ab…
The incredible economic tech bubble Seattle is experiencing is pushing out film and music jobs and companies. As people have had to make the hard choice to leave town to pursue their careers…
"Many viewers " even some who love The Shining " find Duvall's acting strangely cartoonish with its wild expressions of anxiety and fear. … Stephen King himself … was downright offended …
"I've written for every reputable publication in town. For as long as I've been attending theater in the city, my name and brown skin have made me the target of bullies and racists. I've …
"In many Asian countries, hip-hop rose to popularity as a form of self-expression and resistance, sometimes in the face of colonialism and oppressive regimes. … But the contemporary boom o…
"Amazon Crossing, Amazon's publishing imprint focused on literary translation, … has published more than 400 books, from 42 countries and in 26 languages … Crossing has also produced som…
Several independent presses tell PW that the mega-retailer's weekly orders have fallen since late October; one publisher says the most recent order was down 75% from this time last year. The…
"Flemish Culture Minister Jan Jambon … envisages cuts of up to 6% in the subsidies given to cultural institutions to cover their operating funds and 60% in the subsidies given to cover the…
Last week, controversy broke out when Nigeria's first-ever submission for what used to be called the Best Foreign-Language Film Oscar was ruled out because a large majority of the dialogue i…
The artists' collective APY has warned the Australian federal and South Australian state governments that certain outside art dealers, referred to as "carpetbaggers," have been manipulating …
It was a coincidence that could not have been more welcome if it had had been planned; One day, the mailwoman brought two new albums that feature pianist Bill Mays. " Doug Ramsey
To my ears, Porgy and Bess is the highest creative achievement in American classical music. Conrad L. Osborne is not convinced. A crucial sticking point is the anomaly my book exposes: it is…
