He had been trying to sell his apartment since the election, but no one would buy it. “Mr. Brassner, 67, lived alone amid a collection of about 100 vintage electric guitars, 40 guitar amplifiers dating to the 1930s, 150 ukuleles and artwork by Robert Indiana, Mati Klarwein, Jack Kerouac and others.” The damage to his collection isn’t yet known.
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Straight Actors Win Oscars For Playing Gay, But What It’s Like For These Singers To ‘Sing Straight’ When They’re Not?
They’re navigating a lot of money questions. “Since Years & Years won the BBC’s Sound of 2015, lead singer Olly Alexander has been refreshingly open about his sexuality. Speaking at a Stonewall event recently, he said he was advised by a media trainer not to disclose his sexuality when the band signed a record deal – but he ignored the advice.”
Britain Is In The Midst Of A Jazz ‘Explosion’
Whoa: “In the UK, a new and thrilling jazz movement has evolved. As with Lamar, Thundercat and Washington, it is born out of fresh experimentalism, is reaching far younger, more diverse audiences and doesn’t care for snootiness. Unlike in previous waves, these musicians are in their 20s and early 30s, come from diverse backgrounds and, as with grime, have created their own community outside of major labels and concert halls.”
What Happens When Tony Winners Gather For A Religious Ceremony?
Well, they try to “modernize” it, for one thing. And the design! The Passover celebration – on a Monday, natch, when theatres are dark – “took place in a large downtown apartment in a prewar building, decorated with billowing scarves, bright pillows and hanging palm branches to replicate a Bedouin tent. The usual holiday prayers and songs, which commemorate the biblical exodus of Jews from slavery, were replaced by a high-caliber revue of poetic and musical performances from stars of some of the biggest current Broadway shows, including ‘Hamilton,’ ‘Dear Evan Hansen’ and ‘Frozen.'”
The London Production Of ‘Hamilton’ Ties ‘Matildas’ With Seven Olivier Awards
Lin-Manuel Miranda won, and so did the show’s choreographer, the actor who plays Aaron Burr, designers, and the musical itself. Hamilton, with seven wins, did not beat (in numbers) last year’s big winner, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.
A Rock With Yoko Ono’s Handwriting Has Been Stolen From A Toronto Museum
Was it maybe a mistake? “‘It’s a totally interactive (exhibit), there’s a bunch of rocks on the ground and people can walk up to them and pick them up,’ Long said. The intention is that the rocks are returned to the exhibit once the meditation is over.”
Another Director Busts Through A Glass Ceiling
How did director Kay Cannon get the job of helming the new sex comedy Blockers – and making it “a harder R” than it had been in its original script? She went to a meeting. “Point Grey and Good Universe had a writer’s roundtable for Neighbors 2. They had invited a bunch of lady writers to give their lady perspective. When I come to that kind of a thing, I come prepared. I had my computer out and I was basically running my mouth and giving any ideas I had. From that, they thought I had the potential to do a nice job directing.”
Amazon Cancels Award-Winning Classical Music Series ‘Mozart In The Jungle’ After Four Seasons
Will Hailey pursue her conducting career? What will happen to Malcolm McDowell and Bernadette Peters, er, Thomas and Gloria? WHEN WILL JOSH BELL CAMEO NEXT? Unless another company steps in after Amazon decides to go “blockbuster” instead of “niche, but extremely fun,” we’ll never know.
The Addictive Drug That Is Opera
Or, more specifically, that is Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde. Tenor Jonas Kaufmann, who is singing Tristan in Boston: “You can never get rid of it. It is always there, stuck in your brain.”
How To Preserve Outdoor Art? Enlist The U.S. Army, Of Course
Just whoa: “Alexander Calder, who famously rejected the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1976 as a form of protest against the Vietnam War, would be extremely surprised to learn that the conservation of his outdoor sculptures is increasingly a result of a collaboration between art conservators and the US Army Research Laboratory.”