Art and Culture

(Nigel Buchanan / For The Times)In early April 2007, I was invited to a surreptitious dinner with the Los Angeles Philharmonic's music director Esa-Pekka Salonen and the orchestra's president, Deborah Borda. We gathered in Salonen's…
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She began her career as a singer, then became a promoter and impresario. She co-founded what started as a 1974 Duke Ellington tribute and, in 1979, became the Chicago Jazz Festival. She then created another event, which started in 1981…
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Collage © 1967 by Norman O. Mustill Norman Ogue Mustil, my old friend, bailed out in 2013, when, as he put it, he’d had “a good run.” He recounted with a laugh that the hospice services manager told him he was past his “sell-by…
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A historic cathedral in Colombia suffered severe damage in the earthquake that rocked the country’s western regions on Monday (10 August), killing more than 200 people and damaging over 1,600 buildings. The 7.4-magnitude quake caused one…
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One scenario envisions the renowned 96-year-old orchestra — a fixture at the Kennedy Center — performing at “offsite alternate venues,” according to a slide deck of the budget plans obtained by Axios. – Axios Source…
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by Thomas WolfIN CASE YOU HAVEN’T NOTICED, the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO) is in trouble. Part of the problem is that various interested parties cannot agree about what the trouble is. Ask the musicians, and you are told that a…
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“Choreographing a sea-witch straddling a man’s face until he suffocates (Widow’s Bay) is different from dramatizing the intimate moments of the 1990s’ most recognized celebrity couple (Love Story); both of those differ from creating the…
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Complaints about StubHub to the Better Business Bureau rose 47% from 2024 to 2025, and climbed 63% in the eight months leading up to the company’s September 2025 initial public offering. – The Wall Street Journal Source link
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But, if the art of filmmaking is inseparable from that of adaptation, it’s because almost all feature films are made by way of a fundamental form of adaptation: that of a script. Whether it’s written by the director or by another…
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“(For) this year’s NOW evening of world premieres at Vail Dance Festival, tap dancer/choreographer Michelle Dorrance … is creating a work with … Chelsea Hoy, co-artistic director of Chicago’s Trinity Irish Dance Company, for a cast that…
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