A Carnegie Hall Debut, Inspired By Trout
The Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio — pianist Joseph Kalichstein, violinist Jamie Laredo and cellist Sharon Robinson — will celebrate its 35th anniversary as one of the world's finest chamber-music...
View Article'Once' And Again: A Love Story Gets A Second Life
Once, the much-loved 2007 Irish indie, was kind of the little movie musical that could. Made on a shoestring budget in Dublin, it starred songwriters Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova as thinly veiled...
View ArticleA Homecoming For Rachel Griffiths On Broadway
Australian actress Rachel Griffiths, best known in the U.S. for her work on HBO's Six Feet Under and ABC's Brothers and Sisters, has made an acclaimed Broadway debut in the new play Other Desert...
View Article'The Enchanted Island' A Mashup Of Classic Masters
Transcript JACKI LYDEN, HOST: Tonight, New York's Metropolitan Opera will premiere a new piece with music that's hundreds of years old. It's called "The Enchanted Island" and it features arias by...
View ArticleIn Broadway's 'Wit,' A Documentary Of Our Demise
In her dressing room at the Friedman Theatre, Sex and the City star Cynthia Nixon has a nightly ritual: She rubs Nivea cream all over her scalp to soothe the razor burns. Being completely bald is just...
View ArticleColonial History, Through The Eyes Of The Colonized
Actor and writer Danai Gurira sometimes refers to herself as a "Zimerican": She was born in Iowa, but spent most of her childhood in Harare, Zimbabwe — where her new play, The Convert, is set. "I grew...
View Article'Carrie' Creators Resurrect A Legendary Flop
Broadway history is littered with flop musicals — but if some shows are bombs, then Carrie, based on Stephen King's best-selling 1974 novel, was kind of a nuclear bomb. The story of a teenager with...
View ArticleLondon Smash 'Two Guvnors' Comes To Broadway
If you weren't a college theater major, you can be forgiven for not knowing much about commedia dell'arte, the 500-year-old theatrical tradition that Carlo Goldoni used for his comedy The Servant of...
View ArticleA (Very) Young Composer Gets His Chance At The New York Philharmonic
What would it be like if you were 10 years old and composed a piece of music that was played by the New York Philharmonic? For a few New York City school kids, including one fifth-grader, it's a dream...
View Article50 Years Later, Still Free, Still Battling The Weather
On Monday evening, one of New York's most cherished cultural institutions celebrated an anniversary. The Delacorte Theater, home of the free annual Shakespeare in the Park, turned 50, and Meryl Streep...
View ArticleAfter Two Years, Gifted Classical Students Leave The Nest
The odds of making it in the classical music business are long, but for the past two years, 25-year-old viola player Nathan Schram has received a stipend, health insurance, lots of amazing performance...
View ArticleTanglewood: Celebrating Beethoven In The Backwoods For 75 Years
It now seems like a natural rite of summer — open-air classical music festivals where audiences can hear great music while picnicking under the stars. But 75 years ago, when the Boston Symphony first...
View Article'Oklahoma!' Actress Celeste Holm Dies At 95
Academy Award-winning actress Celeste Holm has died. A star on both stage and screen, Holm was best known for roles in Gentleman's Agreement, All About Eve and Oklahoma! She was 95. Holm died early...
View ArticleGathering Of The Viols: The 50th Annual Viola Da Gamba Conclave
Viola da gamba players are a special breed — a tiny subset in the already small world of early classical music. They rarely meet their own kind, but once a year they come together for a week in July at...
View ArticleShorts Inspire Music In 'Sounding Beckett' Trilogy
It all began last year, when the Library of Congress presented Samuel Beckett's Ohio Impromptu alongside a piece of music by composer Dina Koston, which responded to the text. A New York group, the...
View ArticleDuring Lockout Season, Orchestra Musicians Grapple With Their Future
It's been a tumultuous time for American orchestras. Labor disputes have shut down the Minnesota Orchestra and Indianapolis Symphony, and strikes and lockouts have affected orchestras in Chicago,...
View ArticlePhiladelphia Orchestra Reboots With New Music Director
Everywhere you look right now, it seems like American symphony orchestras are fighting for their lives — strikes, lockouts, bankruptcy. Perhaps the biggest example is the world-renowned Philadelphia...
View ArticleJohn Williams' Inevitable Themes
For more than 50 years, John Williams' music has taken us to galaxies far, far away through adventures here on earth, made us feel giddy joy and occasionally scared us to death.
View ArticleThe Peony Pavilion: A Vivid Dream In A Garden
The Peony Pavilion is one of China's most famous operas, but uncut performances of this romantic 16th century work can take more than 22 hours. Chinese composer Tan Dun, who's best known for his...
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