“A Boston Symphony Orchestra audience had to evacuate Symphony Hall Tuesday night after a fire alarm went off inside … about 10 minutes before the end of the concert.”
Tag: 01.25.12
Upholding Classic Chinese Painting Styles Through Cultural Upheaval
Fu Baoshi (1904-1965) practiced and developed the art of traditional Chinese landscape painting through war, occupation, revolution and the reign of Mao Zedong, when merely putting brush to paper was a political act.
Frederica Von Stade, Now Retired, Is ‘Available’
Says the beloved mezzo, now 66: “If somebody asked for a Belle Hélène? Sure! … Maybe something like the Grandmother in A Little Night Music. Not Marcellina in Figaro, not the old Countess in Queen of Spades. I won’t take old-lady roles just to be onstage.”