Hedda Sterne is not a name you hear very often, so I was pleased last spring when I learned that the Amon Carter Museum of American Art was giving her a solo exhibition.
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Jack Costanzo, 1920-2018
The percussionist Jack Costanzo was so closely identified with his instrument that early in his career he became known as “Mr. Bongo.”
Max Richter and Classical Minimalism
Scott attends a performance of Richter’s Sleep in Grand Park in downtown Los Angeles.
Monday Recommendation: The TJO At 20
Toronto Jazz Orchestra, 20, (TJO)
There’s something drifting down from Canada besides smoke from wildfires.
Bernstein at Brevard — Take Two: The Artist and Politics
The backlash against Bernstein’s politics was huge – and “his activities became an insane obsession of J. Edgar Hoover.”
Remember The Members
The Metropolitan Museum’s new director writes a letter to members – and appears to want an exchange of ideas, so here are a few.
Excavate, Reassemble, Create
What? My name listed in the Jacob’s Pillow program among the twenty-four people whom Netta Jerushalmy was gracious enough to thank for the “insights” they contributed to her Paramodernities?
Can we call someone “pretty”?
The seventeenth episode of Three on the Aisle, the twice-monthly podcast in which Peter Marks, Elisabeth Vincentelli, and I talk about theater in America, is now available on line for listening or downloading.
‘Vanessa’ and ‘The Cradle Will Rock’: middle-aged operas speak to current ills
This summer’s Glyndebourne production of Samuel Barber’s reveals that this 1958 opera piece wasn’t a Romantic throwback – it was ahead of its time. A recent recording of Marc Blitzstein’s 1937 agitprop shows how clearly it speaks to The Age of The 1%.
Back to school – a cultural planning syllabus
So after a stretch in university administration, I am back full-time in the classroom this fall. One of my classes is in Cultural Planning and Community Development – i.e. “place-based” cultural policy. So, this is what I’ve put together.