This remarkable new recording from the choir Cappella Romana uses digital processing to recreate Byzantine chant as worshipers in Hagia Sophia would have heard it.
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Concert Review: Mirror Visions Ensemble – ‘The Disappearing Art of Letter Writing’ (NYC, 17 Feb 2020)
Four singers and a pianist swung from romance to riotous humor to wartime pathos, delivering musical settings of letters from different eras with force and feeling.
Read More »Theatre Review (Washington, DC): ‘Silent Sky’ at Ford’s Theatre
This rich drama by Lauren Gunderson shines a light on the pioneering astronomical work of the women of the Harvard Observatory.
Read More »Visiting the Freud Museum in London
On your next London trip, go see the house where Sigmund Freud spent the last year of his life.
Read More »Visiting the Charles Dickens Museum in London
As you visit Dickens' home, you're more likely to find yourself in a festive mood rather than in a "Bah, humbug!" mindset.
Read More »75th Anniversary of D-Day – The Lost Must Never Be Forgotten
As world leaders gathered in England and France to solemnly mark the 75th anniversary of the D-Day invasion of France on June 6, 1944, it is necessary and compelling to remember those lost.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Madame Lynch’
Though colorful and energetic, this collage-like look at Eliza Lynch, the real-life "Queen of Paraguay," falls mostly flat.
Read More »Memorial Day – Honoring Those Who Never Came Home
It seems to happen every year when Memorial Day comes around again – people do not understand why we celebrate this holiday.
Read More »NAB 2019: The Making of ‘Apollo 11’
Rarely does a documentary film not only relate past events, but along the way preserve the culture and set new standards for future filmmaking: Apollo 11, currently in theaters, does just that. At the 2019 NAB Show, the National Association of Broadcasters industry meetup in Las Vegas, April 5-11, filmmaker …
Read More »Music Review: Our Native Daughters – ‘Songs of Our Native Daughters’
'Songs of Our Native Daughters' from Our Native Daughters is as rich and textured, and fraught with violence and emotional turmoil, as the history of Africans in the West.
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