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Shakespeare via Adams
“John Adams (b. 1947) is among the most celebrated composers active today.” I have quoted program…
A pianist’s impact
A recital by Evgeny Kissin in Carnegie Hall is a regular event—and “event” is the right word. A…
Week in review
Recent stories of note: “Descartes Be Damned” Costica Bradatan, Literary Review If you studied…
Ratmansky, Balanchine, Límon & Robbins
Virtuosity comes naturally to Miami City Ballet. Nowhere was this more apparent than in its “Spring…
An oasis of the Bozart
H. L. Mencken once called the South the “The Sahara of the Bozart” (punning on the French…
The Critic’s Notebook
Nonfiction: Rome Before Rome: The Legends That Shaped the Romans, by Philip Matyszak (Thames &…
“The junk of lost mythologies,” by Dana Gordon
Once in a while, an artist who was successful in his time but forgotten soon after is “rediscovered”…
Week in review
Recent stories of note: “‘Mark Twain’ review: The Most American Writer”Jay Parini, The Wall Street…
Orpheus in chartreuse
Did Orpheus wear chartreuse? When Aubree Oliverson, wearing a vivid yellow-green dress, performed…
“Diane Ravitch’s fraudulent attack,” by James Piereson
In the March 13 issue of The New York Review of Books, Diane Ravitch published a scurrilous and…
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