Leonard Bernstein began composing his satire on a dysfunctional marriage when on honeymoon and, by his own admission, the one-act opera was based on the bickering nature of his parents’ relationship. ...
11.14.2025 yahoo.com , theguardian.comJohn Williams , Willie Nelson , Barbra Streisand , Stevie Wonder and the late Chick Corea are all 2026 Grammy nominees. If your first thought is “Aren’t they nominated like, every year? ” you’re not f...
11.12.2025 Yahoo.comClassical music was once pop music. Audiences used to flock to concert halls and bask in the wonders of Le Nozze di Figaro or Turandot , hoping to hear a soprano bring the house down. They teared up o...
11.12.2025 Yahoo.com
After each war there is a little less democracy to save. ” — Brooks Atkinson, NY Times theatre critic “The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy. ” — Mary Catherine ...
11.14.2025 Dailykos.com and 5 sitesSALT LAKE CITY — It used to pretty much be a guarantee that if Wyatt Christensen was on a bike ride, he was listening to one song on repeat: George Gershwin's 'Rhapsody in Blue. 'The teenager, who started taking piano lessons when he was 7, listened to a lot of renditions of the Jazz Age piece. He especially loved the Leonard Bernstein recording. After roughly two years of consuming 'Rhapsody in Blue, ' Christensen, who studies with Koji Attwood and Vera Oussetskaia-Watanabe at the Gifted Music ...
11.14.2025 Ksl.com
It’s not surprising that David Denby’s new book, “Eminent Jews, ” is clearly and elegantly written. Mr. Denby’s been a film critic and essayist for decades — he’s 82 now, so there have been many decad...
11.13.2025 Timesofisrael.comSOUNZ Toi te Arapūoru and NZTrio He Taonga Wairere are pleased to announce composer Karlo Margetić as the recipient of the NZTrio | SOUNZ Tarling Trust Commission. Karlo will write a new eight-minute ...
11.17.2025 Sounz.org.nz
Experience a live performance of Ludwig van Beethoven’s rarely performed (yet what he called his) “greatest work. ” The Kentucky Symphony Orchestra presents Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis (1824), describe...
11.12.2025 Nkytribune.com
Catalogue of Noses is a short musical comedy illustrating the sacrifices that Jewish women make in order to assimilate and succeed in life. The film centers on Emily (Jemma Handler), a 16-year-old Jew...
11.14.2025 Solzyatthemovies.com
When R. E. M. dropped Document on September 1, 1987, the alternative rock scene opened wide and never looked back. The band’s fifth studio album lit up the Billboard 200, broke into the Top 10 for the first time, and delivered their first platinum pl...
11.14.2025 Thatericalper.com