Saw a documentary that left me sad and angry. We in the music world are always carrying on about our mission to bring music (and especially music education) to the disadvantaged, to minorities, to those not otherwise exposed, etc. Well, why aren't they exposed?
Richard III at BAM
I am excited for many reasons beyond the excellence I expect to encounter from the principals. Richard III is the first play I ever saw in the theatre, and its unremitting drama (and those fearsome ghosts!) left a permanent deep impression. Also, my own view has been that this play is undervalued by comparison with the other transcendent tragedies of the Bard...
Welcome Aboard, Nephew Seva!
Linsanity Everywhere
If you live in New York City, and especially if you are a long-suffering Knicks fan like myself, you can’t turn on the radio or ride the subway or even walk out your door without hearing everyone talk about the sensational Jeremy Lin.
The Great Blondin Returns
the Great Blondin over Niagara Falls
Does anyone else remember reading, in grade school, about the mythical Charles Blondin, a.k.a. The Great Blondin, cooking an omelette while perched atop a tightrope strung across Niagara Falls? It’s something that’s remained lodged in my brain. Well, now comes news that, after the obligatory regulatory hand-wringing—de rigueur in our timorous age—the stunt can be attempted again, for the first time in over a century. WOW.
Election Fever Heating Up in Russia
Another week, another brilliant video lampooning the election campaign from the sensationally popular "Citizen Poet”, a supremely clever joint effort of the poet Dmitri Bykov and the actor Mikhail Efremov.