Posts Tagged ‘Zankel’
Wednesday, February 29th, 2012
by Sedgwick Clark It’s a most improbable New York story: Broadway salutes a theater critic, of all things, by dimming its lights during prime box-office time prior to curtain. How often has that happened? No one would have been more astonished to receive this honor than its recipient, Howard Kissel, theater critic of the New […]
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Tags: Beethoven, carnegie hall, Christine Brewer, Clark, David Merrick, Eric Owens, Howard Kissel, Jeremy Geffen, John Oliver, lincoln center, Maazel, Michelle DeYoung, musical america, New York, philharmonic, Sedgwick, sedgwick clark, Sibelius, Tanglewood, Woody Allen, Zankel
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Thursday, November 10th, 2011
By: Edna Landau To ask a question, please write Ask Edna. A few nights ago, I attended a musical evening of sorts—not at Carnegie Hall or Lincoln Center but at Carolines Comedy Club in New York City. Intrigued by the advertisements I heard on radio station WQXR for its Classical Comedy Contest, I bought two tickets, […]
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Tags: askedna, carnegie hall, Deborah Voigt, Edna Landau, lincoln center, musicalamerica, Perlman, Zankel
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Thursday, May 26th, 2011
by Edna Landau To ask a question, please write Ask Edna. This column was prepared with the assistance of Neale Perl, President of the Washington Performing Arts Society, and Ruth Felt, President of San Francisco Performances. Both are valued longtime colleagues, to whom I am very grateful. Dear Edna: I am a pianist and have […]
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