“If a pig on screen must seem to sing along with a performer onstage, as in her production of another Knussen-Sendak collaboration, “Higglety Pigglety Pop!,” Ms. Jones can spontaneously adjust the pig’s appearance along with the music. If the singer holds a line a bit longer one night, or emphasizes a word in a new way, the pig can respond accordingly.”
Tag: 10.07.12
Minnesota Musicians’ Opening Night To Be Led By Conductor Laureate
“Minnesota Orchestra clarinetist Tim Zavadil dropped a bomb on Friday … announcing that the musicians will hold a concert on Oct. 18 at the Convention Center – and that Stanislaw Skrowaczewski will conduct.”
Justin Cronin: Literary Star Turns Into Bestselling Vampire Novelist
“He has an M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a PEN/Hemingway Award for his book Mary and O’Neil, a meditative novel about love and loss told in a series of short stories. He has never read any of the Twilight books – ‘I’m kind of not the demographic,’ he says. And The Passage is not only, or even primarily, about vampires.”