Top Posts From AJBlogs 12.03.15

They just don’t do it
“They”means conductors. “Don’t do it” means that when they conduct Lulu, they don’t follow the markings in Berg’s score. I’ve posted about that, after seeing the movie-theater stream of the Met’s new Lulu. But now I’ve gotten the Lulu full score from the Juilliard library,  … read more
AJBlog: Sandow Published 2015-12-03

So you want to see a show?
Here’s my list of recommended Broadway, off-Broadway, and out-of-town shows, updated weekly. In all cases, I gave these shows favorable reviews (if sometimes qualifiedly so) in The Wall Street Journal when they opened. … read more
AJBlog: About Last Night Published 2015-12-03

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Here’s The Oldest Known Biography Of An African Woman – Written By Other African Women, No Less

“Walatta Petros was an Ethiopian religious leader who lived from 1592 to 1642. A noblewoman, she left her husband to lead the struggle against the Jesuits’ mission to convert Ethiopian Christians to Roman Catholicism. It was for this that the Ethiopian Orthodox Täwaḥədo Church elevated her to sainthood. [Her] story was written by her disciples in the Gəˁəz language in 1672, after her death.”

How Jane Vonnegut Made Kurt A Writer

“Jane knew what her husband should do with his life: he should write. And she seems to have made it her first mission as his spouse to convince him of that. … Many of the ideas and themes that characterize Vonnegut were born in the conversation between Kurt and Jane, and throughout his career she remained a voice in the text. She was there: that was her.”

World’s Most Rarefied Pin-Up Calendar Now Features Not Gisele Bündchen And Kate Moss, But Fran Lebowitz And Yoko Ono

For 50 years, the Pirelli Calendar has been an “arty soft-core ode to pinups produced by the Italian tire manufacturer, shot by renowned photographers, starring supermodels, and never sold but given to an exclusive group of 20,000 VIPs, musicians, politicians and royalty.’ … But that was then.