The self-taught, Dave Brubeck-influenced guitarist and singer has a long and storied career. “In the 1970s and early ’80s, when Brazilians lived under a harsh military dictatorship, he and his lyricist, Aldir Blanc, empowered them with songs that conveyed intense pride and fighting spirit. The messages were often encoded to fool the censors; Mr. Bosco’s lilting tunes and rhythms made every song seem to float.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
The Big Winners At The Daytime Emmys
General Hospital, Steve Harvey, and The Talk won big in a very warm, sunny L.A.
Playing Cyrano And Trying Very, Very Hard Not To Sing Through The Nose
The process of getting Roberto Alagna’s Cyrano nose right took a while, a facial cast, and the sticky adhesive known as Pros-Aide. Alagna: “It’s difficult because you can’t have the resonance of the sound. … You have no resonance at all! It’s like putting cotton on a violin.”
Plenty Of Famous Composers Are Fathers, So Where Are The Mothers?
This isn’t just a problem in composition – but, as other arts start to figure out how to support primary caregivers and their creativity, new music can get it together too.
Top AJBlogs From The Weekend Of 04.30.17
Black Eye Porn
“Normally The Guardian publishes all of Rowson’s cartoons, but I don’t think this one. He mailed it to Heathcote who forwarded it to me. Heathcote wrote the lines when I asked him.” — Gerard … read more
AJBlog: Straight|UpPublished 2017-04-28
On charging admission at the Met
The New York Times reported that the Metropolitan Museum of Art is looking at options to make its “suggested” entry fee into something a little stronger than a hint, at least for people who live … read more
AJBlog: For What it’s WorthPublished 2017-04-28
Nora and the mansplainer
In today’s Wall Street Journal I review the Broadway premiere of A Doll’s House, Part 2. Here’s an excerpt. * * * Hugh Kenner defined conceptual art as that which, once described, need not be … read more
AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2017-04-28
The ‘Garden Bridge’ Is Dead, And Those Who Proposed It (Should) Owe The British Public Millions Of Pounds
How did it get so far in the first place? “Varnished with a Kevlar coating of celebrity sparkle, Bullingdon Club backing and architectural fairy dust, the garden bridge has always seemed capable of surviving every missile of common sense thrown at it. For three years it has been fiercely opposed by supporters of gardens and bridges alike, of which this vanity project was clearly never either.”
The Next Hot Thing In Opera?
Why don’t we know more about Giacomo Meyerbeer? “Few things could be further from the same old arias than Meyerbeer (1791-1864). Hardly a corner of the repertory has grown mustier, a puzzling development given the composer’s prominence during his lifetime. In his heyday, Meyerbeer was a uniquely powerful hitmaker, as well as an innovator who brought opera to new levels of orchestral color, dramatic scale, choral mass, historical richness and theatrical dazzle.”
Canadian Theatre Needs To Go Way Beyond A Hashtag
The deal: “I want a contemporary colour palette. I want the people of the world that I see around me to be telling those stories. That homogenous world that I see onstage [traditionally]? It’s just not my world. I don’t recognize that.”
Vito Acconci, Architect And Performance Artist, Has Died At 77
His move from performance artist (his most famous piece, “Seedbed,” included him lying beneath a false floor in a gallery, masturbating and speaking to gallery visitors over a hidden mic) to architect “confused his peers and caused his profile in the art world to recede, to the point where many younger artists who were indirectly influenced by his work had little idea who had created it. In his later years, Mr. Acconci sometimes agonized over this situation, but he said he had no choice but to follow his interests where they took him.”
How Would A Writers’ Strike Affect TV Shows?
Late-night would suffer first, and badly. SNL? Good luck. Daytime soaps? Probably kill them all, likely forever. The Walking Dead? Well … maybe the strike won’t last that long.