From Vaudeville to the Streets
Eleven dancers take the stage at NYU Skirball Center in Donald Byrd’s The Minstrel Show Revisited. They’re strutting, prancing, raising white-gloved hands. How come I don’t recognize any faces? I can hardly tell which are women and which are men. … read more
AJBlog: Dancebeat Published 2015-11-02
More by Mustill: A Smokin’ Victorian and an ‘EVENT’
Finding lost and uncollected artworks by the late Norman O. Mustill has been a continuing project here. An old friend of his, Kurt Wold, recently … read more
AJBlog: Straight|Up Published 2015-11-02
Dreams so real
Paul Hindemith once called America “the land of limited impossibilities.” My own life has been a string of increasingly extreme improbabilities, and every once in a while something happens that cause me to stop dead in my tracks and reflect on just how improbable certain of them have been. … read more
AJBlog: About Last Night Published 2015-11-02
A Day to Forget
I love Paris. I have visited this city more than thirty times over the last sixty years, and I will continue to love it even after today. I have a warning, however, that might alert … read more
AJBlog: OperaSleuth Published 2015-11-02
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