John Adams On His Place In Music History

It just makes me a little nervous, and I try not to think about it too much. I think classical music is really strange because it seems to thrive on the word “greatness.” You know, you have great performers, and every concert by the San Francisco Symphony has to be great, and all the composers are great, and at the same time people are whispering, “Classical music’s dead.”

An American Dance In Paris

“Since founding the American Academy of Dance in Paris in 1997, Brooke Desnoës has emerged as a proponent of a fresh approach in France that seeks to include not only students with perfect bodies but also anyone who takes pleasure in dance. Her school, where students range in age from 3 to 19 and are admitted without auditions, represents the latest step in bringing to France an American approach to classical training.”