The pianist's revealing memoir takes us behind the scenes into the developing mind of a music student as he becomes a mature virtuoso.
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Theater Review (NYC): The Seeing Place Theater’s Searing Revival of ‘Wit’ by Margaret Edson
A new production of Margaret Edson's Pulitzer Prize-winning play 'Wit' about a dying cancer patient is particularly poignant now.
Read More »Interview: Wray Armstrong and Evita Zhang of Armstrong Music & Arts on Bridging the China-West Cultural Divide
As it manages artists and tours the agency works to facilitate cross-cultural exchange of music, opera, dance and more while building careers.
Read More »Exclusive Interview: Dan Aaron, Progressive Rock Singer-Songwriter
Dan Aaron's new prog-rock album has complex arrangements with keyboards and guitars, harmonica, synthesizers, flute and saxophone, a live string trio and more.
Read More »Concert Review (NYC): The Knights at the 92nd Street Y, 11 December 2021
The Brooklyn orchestral collective performed music by Schubert, Vaughan Williams, Gottschalk and contemporary composer Jessie Montgomery.
Read More »Opera-Theater-Dance Review: ‘Messy Messiah’ by Heartbeat Opera
A first-rate, meticulously crafted operatic holiday revue with glorious singing and dancing, just what we need in dark times.
Read More »Concert Review (NYC): American Classical Orchestra Plays Mozart at Alice Tully Hall (14 December 2021)
The musicians' joy at performing live on stage in a well-tuned concert hall again was visible in their body language as well as audible in their sound.
Read More »Exclusive Interview: Dan Goodman and JoAnna Ross of ‘Schtick a Pole in It: A Night of Comedy and Pole Dancing’
Goodman and Ross are comics and writers who for nine years have also been impresarios like no others.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Candlelight’ by John Patrick Shanley
The Pulitzer Prize winner offers a funny and dark fairy-tale love story in a colorful production by Nylon Fusion.
Read More »Concert Review (NYC): ‘Handel & Hanukkah’ – Clarion Choir and Clarion Orchestra Perform ‘Judas Maccabeus’ and More, 1 December 2021
There's more to Handel and the holidays than the 'Messiah.' A suite from his oratorio 'Judas Maccabeus' featured original instruments and superb soloists.
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