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Scheherazade.2 — Dramatic Symphony for Violin and Orchestra (2014) by John Adams New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall; conducted by Alan Gilbert; soloist Leila Josefowicz World premiere: Thursday, March 26, 2015 Insights at the Atrium — Artist and Muse: John Adams and Leila Josefowicz David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center Monday, March 23, 2015 John Adams isn’t […]
Read MoreThere Goes Gravity: A Life in Rock and Roll by Lisa Robinson Riverhead Books, 2014; 368pp In Cameron Crowe’s 2000 movie Almost Famous, the rock critic Lester Bangs offers some elder-brotherly advice to Crowe’s young avatar, William Miller, who’s about to go on tour with up-and-coming band Stillwater. “You cannot make friends with the rock stars… They’re gonna buy you drinks, […]
Read MoreSoho Rep’s An Octoroon written by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, directed by Sarah Benson Theatre for a New Audience, Brooklyn, New York City running till Sunday, March 29 The fact that the Oxford English Dictionary‘s first citation for “mashup” is from Dion Boucicault’s play The Octoroon (1859) is highly significant in the context of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins‘ Obie Award-winning remix An Octoroon. There’s hip-hop, mixed […]
Read MoreThe Shroud of Turin. An Ohio ghost story. “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus.” Basketball with Xenophon and Achilles. Things that should or shouldn’t be done with a Philadelphia Eagles hat. Just five of the things that aliens landing at City Winery last Monday might have taken away from their close encounter with humanity. The House of […]
Read MoreTotentanz for Mezzo-Soprano, Baritone, and Orchestra (2013) by Thomas Adès New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall, conducted by Thomas Adès A medieval frieze destroyed during the Second World War is the source material for Thomas Adès‘s new work, Totentanz, which received its U.S. premiere last week. Conducting the New York Philharmonic was the composer himself. […]
Read MoreReadEasy is a new feature for 2015… because you’re worth it. I love Daily Savings Time. No matter what the weather, it makes me feel like spring is here!!! — Danielle Steel (@daniellesteel) March 10, 2015 Naomi Klein on climate change… In an edited excerpt from her new book This Changes Everything (Simon & Schuster, 2014) […]
Read MoreIf you still don’t have tickets to see our latest Seriously Entertaining show, No Return, you’re reaching the point thereof, as it’s tonight! Join us at City Winery in New York City for an evening taking in music, poetry, comedy, horror, and a little papal politics as we lay on a mega-selling, award-winning, genius-laden line-up for your intellectual […]
Read MoreThe Fifth Gospel by Ian Caldwell Simon & Schuster, 2015; 448pp “The search for information about the Vatican is maddening,” writes Ian Caldwell, “not because that information is scarce but because it’s oceanic, bottomless, centuries deep — and because, just when you think you’re on the cusp of a discovery, you drop head-first into the […]
Read MoreUma Thurman, Dan Stevens, Simon Doonan and more at the House of Speakeasy Gala sponsored by Craigellachie and Aberfeldy
Read MoreHouse of SpeakEasy Celebrates 2nd Annual Gala with a Literary Fundraiser
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