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Jonathan Nott does right by Ligeti and Herbert Blomstedt does the same for Mozart. You didn’t know that Evgeny Kissin, the piano virtuoso, was also a composer? Join the club.
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What we don’t learn very much about is Elvis’ inner life, his motivations, and his deeper ambitions.
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A triumphant disc from A Far Cry, some fresh thinking from Giuseppe Sinopoli and the Israel Philharmonic, and Thomas Hampson, a great purveyor of American song, focuses on Chicago.
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The film is full of salacious details from Hollywood’s heyday, but it is also a tender look at an elderly man whose current existence would be seen by many as difficult.
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Every guitarist should listen carefully to this album. And then maybe some Johnny Smith.
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Trumpeter Arturo Sandoval is a big personality and in this performance he was almost as much raconteur, comedian and ringmaster as musician.
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I say we need this book now, but the truth is we needed it even more a while ago.
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Gary Shandling’s life and art are both given the redeeming appreciation they deserve.
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Mothers and Sons is one of veteran playwright Terrence NcNally’s finest works.
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Commentary/Interview: “The Jazz Bubble” — The Arts, Commodified
In what ways are the arts themselves (and our understanding of them) being shaped to serve the ethos of corporate profit-making?
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