For the Music
The difference between going to a concert given by a great string quartet, like the Pacifica Quartet, and even a very good one, like the Belceas, is that in the presence of great musicians, you forget...
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This week's links to NAJP members' work: Martin Bernheimer reviews "Ballo in maschera" at the Met (Financial Times)Jeanne Carstensen on riding out Sandy (Religion Dispatches) Steve Dollar on Dree...
View ArticleMuseum Views
Yesterday, on a gorgeous Sunday afternoon, my husband and I decided to interrupt our usual Lower Manhattan walk with a visit to the New Museum. Located at on the Bowery at a point that becomes visible...
View ArticleTwo Good New Books
They're new to me, at any rate, and probably to you, though they were first published a long time ago. Both are part of the NYRB neglected classics series, which consistently unearths treasures that...
View ArticlePicasso at the Guggenheim
There is a wonderful show up at the Guggenheim Museum right now, called Picasso in Black and White. It takes up the whole of the spiral ramp, from top to bottom, which is how I always prefer to see...
View ArticleThe Tempest at the Met
It is an odd feeling to be completely out of step with the rest of an audience. Last night, at the performance of Thomas Adès's The Tempest at the Metropolitan Opera, I sometimes felt I was the only...
View ArticleThe Shawn Brothers
Since I actually played a small role in last night's Symphony Space performance, this will not be an objective critical review (as if any of my accounts, in this space or elsewhere, are objective!),...
View ArticleBeethoven's Ninth at Carnegie
There are a few tremendous pieces of music that I could happily hear live several times a year, every year of my life. Beethoven's Ninth is certainly one of them, and as it happens, I have already...
View ArticleA Call to Arms, or a Cry for Help
Okay, fellow NAJPers. We are nearly down to the wire here. I've been doing this daily blogging for about four weeks now, and I have only three days left in my promised month. Who would like to step up...
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This week's links to NAJP members' work: Larry Blumenfeld on International Contemporary Ensemble (The Wall Street Journal)Michael Feingold on "Ivanov" and Durang's "Vanya and Sonia" (The Village...
View ArticleThe Louis Kahn Park
This past Sunday's expedition was to Roosevelt Island, which can be reached from Manhattan's East Side by an airborne tram, which flies over the East River from a station at Second Avenue and 60th...
View ArticleGreat Guinness
The Man in the White Suit is playing this week at Film Forum, and what a joy it is. First and foremost, we get the young Alec Guinness--graceful and spritelike, handsome enough but not too handsome,...
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On Monday night at Avery Fisher Hall I saw a wonderful Wozzeck. Alban Berg's brilliant opera was conducted concert-style by Esa-Pekka Salonen; it featured Simon Keenlyside as Wozzeck and Angela Denoke...
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This week's links to NAJP members' work: Martin Bernheimer on the Philharmonia Orchestra's "Wozzeck" (Financial Times)Laura Bleiberg on "The Nutcracker" and guest artists (Los Angeles Times)Laura...
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This week's links to NAJP members' work: Martin Bernheimer on the Met's "Rigoletto" and previous (per)versions (Promenade)Martin Bernheimer reviews "The Sorcerer" (Financial Times)Larry Blumenfeld on...
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