Category: AJBlogs

The best setting of Walt Whitman’s words by an American composer may just be a 30-minute radio play by Norman Corwin and Bernard Herrmann. – Joe Horowitz

The hottest tickets in London last Saturday, on the hottest day in London for at least forty years, were both at the Barbican — the Lee Krasner retrospective and Rattle conducting the LSO in Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen – Paul Levy

Peter Furlan Project, Between The Lines (Beany Bops Music)
Stan Getz: Getz At The Gate (Verve)
– Doug Ramsey

Pianist, singer and songwriter Dave Frishberg has suffered medical setbacks that have led him and his wife April to seek help in meeting his long-term health care needs. – Doug Ramsey

What a so-called “private” Sotheby’s would really mean for the art world, and for art. – Lee Rosenbaum

In the opening scene of the Restoration tragedy Venice Preserved at the RSC, a rebel recruits a desperate friend to the cause. His indignation is scorching hot, so of course he pulls out a lighter, itching to burn the rotten state to the ground. – David Jays

What struck me watching Zamira Aminova in Bukhara was that, although her movements were not as complex as others I’ve seen, she never stopped seeming to float like a leaf on the wind. That takes strength. – Michal Shapiro

The New York Times Book Review has finally covered Never a Lovely So Real, Colin Asher’s Algren biography, and Susan Jacoby’s honest, well-reported review sets a judicious standard. – Jan Herman

Following the recent Rifftides review of her new album, we thought you’d enjoy Ms. Matassa and friends in a Gershwin medley. – Doug Ramsey

As a result of the centrality of government funding for the arts in South America, the emphasis in much of the work in the arts there appears to be on developing connections with communities. Here are several projects I learned of at a conference this month in Santiago, Chile. – Doug Borwick