There is nothing like a good ballet spoof. At New York City Ballet’s January 21 matinee performance, the company danced at Lincoln Center Jerome Robbins’ “The Concert” (1956). Whether you get the inside jokes regarding specific ballets, Robbins’s jabs at ballet traditions—the good, bad and the ugly—directly communicate.
Read the rest of this article »by Sedgwick Clark A confident handshake? It happened in the 1980s in David Dubal’s office at the late, lamented New York classical-radio station WNCN, where I edited the station’s music magazine, Keynote. David, who was music director of the station, always had a string of notable pianists visiting. On this day it was Alexis Weissenberg […]
Read the rest of this article »By: Edna Landau To ask a question, please write Ask Edna. I was recently honored to be asked to participate on a panel at the annual Astral Artists auditions, during which I listened to a substantial number of pianists and wind players. While all were on a rather high level, I was struck by the relatively […]
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