“According to experts, the most difficult string quartet ever written is Ben Johnston’s Quartet No. 7. It was composed in 1984 but went unperformed for decades. … Now the work is available on a CD that the Kepler Quartet released hard on the heels of the composer’s 90th birthday in March.”
Tag: 04.30.16
An Almost Storybook Tale Of The (Bright) Star Of ‘Bright Star’
“Cusack has hustled to earn a living — she couldn’t afford to finish her degree at the University of North Texas — whether as a singing waitress near a Fort Worth freeway; on a cruise ship crooning Burt Bacharach songs; or as a jazz chanteuse in an underground wine bar for $40 a night. Sitting in her cramped dressing room at the Cort Theater the other day, Ms. Cusack didn’t seem bitter.”
The Real Home Of Gatsby, Er, We Mean F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Fitzgerald left St. Paul many times, but St. Paul never left him.”
Walt Whitman, Men’s Health Columnist (Really)
“In long and sometimes rambling prose, the poet extols the virtues of fresh air, of good footwear, of naked sunbathing and even of facial hair.”
Ballet Companies Are Wrecking Dancers’ Bodies, Prima Ballerina Says
And she’s ready for that to stop: “In the ballet world, in too many cases, the status of dancers is similar to that of actors in medieval theatre – subservient.”