When the little Greenwich Village nightclub opened just over one year ago with classical music among its offerings, it was seen as “a bold, plucky upstart.” Now it’s attracting the likes of Met Opera and Glyndebourne star Danielle de Niese, new-music eminences the Arditti Quartet, and the Carnegie Hall/Juilliard joint venture Ensemble ACJW.
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‘Cowboys, Mozart And Picasso’
Those three elements “might not at first glance seem to belong together in one artistic venture.” But there they are, combined in a dance with the unlikely title of El Paso Requiem, choreographed by Bolshoi alumnus Sergei Vanaev at, improbably enough, “the ambitious little Mystic Ballet” in a little town way out on the Connecticut coast.
Matthew Modine Saves The Alpacas
The ’80s movie star is starring in a new comedy “as a has-been actor and opportunist [named Matthew Modine] who goes to South America to create a photo op as a celebrity ‘humanitarian’ so he can get back on the A-list. By saving an endangered herd of alpacas, he figures he’ll save his career.”
Viggo Mortensen Just Can’t Stop (Which Is Why He’s ‘Fried’)
Besides being a famous movie actor, he’s “a political activist: a friend of Representative Dennis Kucinich, … he sings, sort of. He also writes and translates poems, and paints and takes photographs, composes and records music.” And he “owns and runs a small publishing house, Perceval Press.”