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Times Square signs to feature nightly art show
Instead of selling clothing, coffee or movies, the lights on Broadway will soon display art—at least for three minutes each night. Beginning May 1, art will appear on more than a dozen digital signs from 11:57 p.m. to midnight. The first month will feature internationally renowned theater artist Robert Wilson’s video portraits depicting slow-moving actors, [...]
Category: Arts
Books of The Times: ‘Mr. Broadway,’ a Memoir by Gerald Schoenfeld
“Mr. Broadway” is a posthumously published memoir by Gerald Schoenfeld, one of the engines of the Shubert Organization for decades. NYT > Theater
Category: Broadway
Even more screens coming to Times Square
The bright advertising screens of Times Square are about to get more artsy. About a dozen large signs will feature digital art displays that are two to three minutes in duration. It’s part of a new Times Square Alliance program. The first work is a video of flowers bursting. The work by artist Ori Gersht [...]
Category: Arts
This Is a Call – The Life and Times of Dave Grohl – By Paul Brannigan – Book Review
Tracing a star from Nirvana to the Foo Fighters. NYT > Rock Music
Category: News
From The New York Times: “Jason Moran Is Named Kennedy Center’s Jazz Adviser”
This is copyright protected, so just a couple of notes. NATE CHINEN November 29, 2011 “The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts said on Tuesday that the pianist and composer Jason Moran has been appointed its new artistic adviser for jazz. Mr. Moran, 36, is the second person to hold that post, which [...]
Category: Live Gigs
The Last Sultan – The Life and Times of Ahmet Ertegun – By Robert Greenfield – Book Review
A biography of Ahmet Ertegun, who built Atlantic Records on black music. NYT > Rock Music
Category: News
From The New York Times: Nico Muhly On Opera and Life
Nico Muhly is one of today’s most important composers. This article is copyright protected, so just a few notes. By VIVIEN SCHWEITZER Published: November 4, 2011 Nico Muhly “Mr. Muhly, 30, whose high-profile commissions include a work for the Metropolitan Opera, said that as a gay man he is particularly interested in the government’s role [...]
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From the New York Times: “New Pilots at the Keyboard”
This is copyright protected, so just a few notes. Four young pianists on the rise in the Jazz scene By BEN RATLIFF Published: October 6, 2011 “If drummers are the engines of jazz, then pianists are often its mapmakers. Fabian Almazan Next week the pianist Fabian Almazan, who is 27 and still unknown to most [...]
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From The New York Times: “A Group Determinedly Finding a Spot Right in the Middle of Things”
This is copyright protected, so just a few notes. By STEVE SMITH Published: August 9, 2011 “In 2007 Claire Chase, an accomplished flutist and an ambitious, industrious organizer, spelled out her hopes for the International Contemporary Ensemble, which she founded in 2001 with a group of fellow graduates of the Oberlin Conservatory in Ohio. ‘ [...]
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From The New York Times: “Paying Tribute to ‘Subversive’ Album”
This is copyright protected, so just a few notes By PHILLIP LUTZ Published: June 10, 2011 “In a musician’s life, few moments reveal themselves to be genuinely subversive. But when the clarinetist Evan Ziporyn first heard Brian Eno’s Music for Airports in 1978, he knew such a moment was at hand. ‘ It upended certain [...]
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