By: Edna Landau To ask a question, please write Ask Edna. When I had the pleasure of meeting with participants in the Imani Winds Chamber Music Festival last summer, I addressed a number of questions that had been submitted in advance. One question concerned playing on music cruises, and how to apply for such opportunities. I [...]
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The seventh annual Fall For Dance Festival came to a meaty close on October 13. Program five at New York’s City Center trafficked in high testosterone, thanks to China’s LPD-Laboratory Dance Project’s No Comment (2002) and Yaron Lifschitz’s Circa (2009), which is also the name of the Australian acrobatic troupe. In both works the body was treated like a battering ram.
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Dear Friends of Muncie, If all goes well, the editorial section of Musical America Directory will close today, and I’ll be able to turn to yet another episode of “Why I Left Muncie.” Keep the faith! SAC
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By Robyn Guilliams Dear Law & Order: Performing Arts Division – Many nonprofit arts organizations have board members or other affiliated parties who offer their services free of charge or at a reduced rate to support the organization. Is it possible for the nonprofit organization to give a tax letter for the value of the [...]
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By: Frank Cadenhead October 13, 2012. It certainly is the first time, and probably the last, that I will be able to join my home town, San Diego, together with the French city, Lyon, in the same sentence. But two similar stories in these cities have struck a chord. The first is a surprising item [...]
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Hofesh Schechter is a slippery soul. In Political Mother, seen October 11 as part of Brooklyn Academy of Music Next Wave Festival, the Israeli-born choreographer cloaks his earnestness in irony. The 80-minute, 2010 work is structured through a series of blackouts in which 12 dancers and seven musicians evoke the demagoguery in politics, and entertainment.
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The Slovak National Theatre Ballet in Bratislava is not a destination point for international balletomanes, but it should be if one wants to see August Bournonville’s La Sylphide up close and personal. In the city’s neo-Renaissance theatre, the 92-year old ballet troupe performs regularly. Being there on October 6 felt like visiting the interior of a Faberge egg.
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By Rebecca Schmid The socially aware agenda of the Komische Oper’s new Intendant Barrie Kosky has been ruffling the feathers of Berliners months before he officially took over this season, not least with the decision to end the house tradition of performing operas exclusively in the German language. His emphasis on cultural pluralism aside, the [...]
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Paris, Thursday, October 11, 2012. When I was growing up in San Diego, one of my passions was the New Yorker column, “Letters from Paris” by the grand and gifted Janet Flanner. Her reports from this city, full of energy, intellect, passion, contradictions and good food, could have been one of the reasons I live [...]
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by Sedgwick Clark At night after watching Jon Stewart and Colbert and checking out TCM’s midnight film, I’m often up proofreading or writing captions during deadline. I was up until 5 a.m. yesterday morning finishing details for the last article of the 2013 Directory to go to the designer. Last night I had looked forward [...]
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