By the time he died in 1929, French industrialist Auguste Pellerin had collected one-sixth of the artist’s total output. This winter Pellerin’s heirs are selling off ten paintings as well as a Rodin and a Manet. New York Times
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BACK OF THE BANDSTAND
A new crop of drummers has changed the essence and structure of making jazz. You never know what to expect, writes Ben Ratliff. – The New York Times
FASHION STATEMENT
English violinist Nigel Kennedy’s hair looked “as if borrowed from some sorry overcoiffed dog whose breed hails from remote mountainous regions of central Asia,” and his concert garb was no less bizarre this week at Washington’s Kennedy Center. Enough, writes Philip Kennicott. Appearances do count. – The Washington Post
NEW MUSIC TO JUMP UP AND DOWN FOR
The best art enlarges your life and changes you, writes Richard Dyer. Peter Lieberson’s new orchestral score for the Boston Symphony is such a work. – The Boston Globe