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Three Generations of Composers at Carnegie
Part, Glass and Reich Featured
By: - Apr 07th, 2017The Deans of Contemporary Music for the past fifty years were represented at Zanekl Hall, in Carnegie Hall. Steve Reich is curating this series of concerts. They are revealing and surprising.
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Garson Kanin Play Born Yesterday
Chicago's Remy Bumppo Theatre
By: - Apr 06th, 2017Going to see Remy Bumppo Theatre’s sparkling production of the Garson Kanin play, Born Yesterday, was a re-introduction to a play that’s rich and relevant. Not fluffy. Funny and witty with a definite edge.
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Conrad Tao Rages at Crypt
Copland and Rzewski Featured
By: - Apr 06th, 2017Conrad Tao is a fearless performer. He is open to reactions that can be very harsh and cruel, and also very beautiful. The Aaron Copland Piano Sonata that sat in the center of the program is a very calm, contemplative and yearning piece. It is during this almost withheld performance that you can clearly feel Tao’s art.
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In to America by Griffin Theatre
World Premiere in Chicago
By: - Apr 05th, 2017In to America, the world premiere production by Griffin Theatre, is America’s origin story, a documentary-style production that tells our history of immigration and multiculturalism, in all its glorious and cruel aspects. William Massolia, Griffin’s artistic director, has compiled a richly researched story of 400 years of American history.
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Biotope: Friends, Life Forms, Landscapes
Exhibition at Gallery 51 in North Adams
By: - Apr 04th, 2017In the show Biotope, at Gallery 51 in North Adams, the viewer is given the chance to experience life from the perspective of other life forms: animals, landscape, and vast fields denoting the pattern and apparent chaos in nature. Biotope refers to “habitat –an area within a biome where smaller subdivisions of species live,” suggesting a search for the “spirit of place” mentioned in the show’s introduction.
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Boston Art Dealer Alan Fink at 91
Art Was the Family Business
By: - Apr 04th, 2017Alan Fink met his artist wife, Barbara Swan, in Paris where he lived for three years on just $700. They married in 1952 and relocated to Boston. There he went to work for the next 16 years at Boris Mirski Gallery. In 1967 he founded Alpha Gallery now run by their daughter Joanna. Their son Aaron is an expressionist painter.
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LBJ Play in Miami
Actors Playhouse Goes All the Way
By: - Apr 03rd, 2017A riveting All the Way in South Florida. Matlock star triumphs as LBJ with strong performances all around.
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Remembering Jim Rosenquist
Billboard Painter to Pop Artist
By: - Apr 02nd, 2017For a period of time in the late 1960s I worked in the studio of Pop artist James Rosenquist. He passed away recently at 83. When Jim first arrived in New York he painted billboards high above Times Square. He later used those techniques as a key but undervalued Pop artist.
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Arcadia in South Florida
Play Of Ideas at Palm Beach Dramaworks
By: - Apr 01st, 2017Tom Stoppard's play is a mental exercise. Cast excels at Arcadia a time traveling play on-stage for a month.
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Karoo Restaurant
Taste of South Africa on Cape Cod
By: - Apr 01st, 2017The name Karoo derives from a semiarid region of South Africa. In local dialect the term translates as “land of thirst.” But you will find the cuisine of Chef Sanette Groenwald, of Afrikaner Dutch heritage, to be no mirage. This a great place for exotic cuisine on Lower Cape Cod.
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Adams and Riley at Carnegie Hall
Saved by the Bells
By: - Mar 31st, 2017For the past half century our ears and minds have been assaulted with sound. Many of us have ceased to hear. Yet modern composers are creating music to which you must listen to enjoy. They are opening up our ears. This spring, in the intimate Zankel Hall, Carnegie is presenting three generations of contemporary composers led by curator Steve Reich. There is no better way to start listening again. No matter how minimal the style, this music is saved by the marimba and vibraphone bells.
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Poetry Reading by Charles Giuliano
Williams Faculty Club April 18
By: - Mar 30th, 2017Since June, 2014 Berkshire poet, Charles Giuliano, has published three books of gonzo verse. A fourth is in production for a summer release. On Tuesday April 18, at 7:30 P.M. he will give a reading at the Williams Faculty Club (WFC), 968 Main Street, Williamstown, MA 01267. The event is free and open to the public.
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Janácek's Adventures of Vixen Sharp Ears
Natural World's Entrance at Manhattan School of Music
By: - Mar 30th, 2017When the Adventurs of Vixen Sharp Ears was selected for the spring opera production at the Manhattan School of Music the prescience in this time of challenge to our climate and natural world could not have been foreseen. Yet watching the moving and charming production this week, the impact of our country’s abandonment of planetary care makes Leoš Janácek's opera all the more touching
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TenThing Brass Comes to New York
Tine Thing Helseth's Group Dazzles with Class
By: - Mar 28th, 2017TenThing brass came to Scandanavia House. The group consisting of four trumpets, four trombones, a horn and a tuba, has been touring the US to great success. Brassy and classy, they are as infectious as they are intimate. Ten, long-stemmed musicians delight.
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Sweat by Lynn Nottage
Award Winning Play Finally Reaches Broadway
By: - Mar 28th, 2017Like her Pulitzer-Prize-winning Ruined, Lynn Nottage developed Sweat from many on-the-spot interviews with people in this predicament, whose stories and comments flesh out the drama that connects and thrusts home its meaning and impact. it’s moving intact to Studio 54 with only one cast change.
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Dry Powder at Florida's GableStage
Play Pits Employees vs. Bottom Line
By: - Mar 27th, 2017A peak into high-stakes financial world with Southeastern premiere of 'Dry Powder' in Florida . GableStage scores a hit with 'Dry Powder'
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American Composers Orchestra at Carnegie Hall
Reich, Hertizberg, Prestini and Weston Rock Zankel Hall
By: - Mar 26th, 2017Contemporary classic music is thriving. No longer is the ACO alone in performing new composers. Yet over the years they have commissioned and performed contemporary classical composers when few others would.
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Bobal a Grape To Learn About
Great Wines From Utie-Requena
By: - Mar 25th, 2017The area near Valencia, Spain is rich in wine heritage. For over 2,500 years wines have been made. Due to the overpowering grape of Boba it has turned this region into a wine area that wine lovers appreciate.
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Lovesport by Tony Padilla
Pearl McManus Theatre in Paslm Springs
By: - Mar 24th, 2017In award winner Tony Padilla's latest comedy “Lovesport”, now performing on the Pearl McManus Theatre stage at the Palm Springs Woman’s Club, Padilla takes a look at gay marriage from the point of view of one couple who took the marriage plunge and one couple that didn’t.
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Ensemble Studio Theatre Presents Spill
British Petroleum's Business as Usual
By: - Mar 24th, 2017Spill makes clear its theatrical origins in the first minutes. The wife of one of the men killed in the Deepwater Horizon oil rig blowup is being interviewed. Slowly characters appear on stage and speak in bits and pieces about the events she describes. The cacophonous chorus crescendos and then bursts into flames.
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Tech Talk Informs Washburn's 10 out of 12
Tedium of a Play Within a Play's the Thing
By: - Mar 24th, 2017At some two hours and forty five minutes Anne Washburn's 10 out of 12 at Chicago's Theatre Wit is a tad too long. But the real time tedium replicates the point of this play which reveals how a play takes its final form through a technical rehearsal. Equity rules limit actors to working for twelve hours with a two hour break for dinner. If you see a lot of theatre this may be a fascinating experience. If not , those looking for an evening of casual entertainment, then caveat emptor.
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A Rose For All Seasons
Young French Winemaker Mathilde Chapoutier
By: - Mar 23rd, 2017With thousands of Roses on the market and with spring in the air, isn't it time to find a fitting Rose for summer and year round entertaining? I have.
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Something Rotten's On the Road
Parody of Shakespeare at Broward Center for the Performing Arts
By: - Mar 23rd, 2017"Something Rotten!," the Broadway hit, is on tour with a stop at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts.
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946 by Kneehigh at St. Ann's Warehouse
Emma Rice Directs Michael Morpurgo's Tale
By: - Mar 22nd, 2017The enchantments of a Kneehigh Production directed by Emma Rice are so various, unusual and satisfying that we suggest you high tail it to Dumbo and catch the show.
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Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress
The Boston Lyric Opera Production is Stylish and Sexy
By: - Mar 22nd, 2017The morality play, inspired by Hogarth, was turned into an overlong, prolix opera by Stravinsky and his collaborators W.H. Auden and Chester Kallman. An attractive young cast does its best but can barely bring this dud to life. Special shout-outs to set and costume designers who made the production hip and racy.
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