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Last weekend in Washington, D.C.  the cherry trees, camellias and magnolias were putting on a sumptuous show. At the Kennedy Center, New York City Ballet was also blooming. I enjoyed seeing Martins’ Symphonic Dances for what I think is the … Continue reading →

Mind-boggling but true: the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission just approved a huge pipeline for highly-pressurized gas to run cheek-by-jowl with the aging, dilapidated Indian Point nuclear plant, thirty miles from Manhattan. Ellen Canatrow at truthout finds this unthinkable, and with … Continue reading →

I think the new, Spring 2015 Ballet Review is just about the most beautiful we’ve ever done. Amid so much to see and read, don’t forget to go back in time with me to my 1982 meetings with Irina Baronova, … Continue reading →

Watching VAI’s new Legends of Ballet CD, it’s all interesting, all the Bell Telephone Hour performances by NYCB and ABT stars. But writing about Patricia Wilde, I’ve been watching the Square Dance excerpts more than anything else. It’s worth noting … Continue reading →

Columbia’s Susan Boynton writes at Talkingpointsmemo about the way that “with each passing year, it becomes clearer that cheap labor has become the hidden foundation of American higher education. According to the American Association of University Professors, more than 50 … Continue reading →

Unlike the shameless, rabid exhortations of the Two Ongoing Wars Isn’t Enough, Let’s Have Three or Even Four, While At Home Our Infrastructure Crumbles, California Sizzles, ETC. crowd–the Metropolitan Opera’s Ernani is a bona fide, legitimate exemplar of performing art!! … Continue reading →

Brave New Films has prepared a short, “Wrong About Iraq, Wrong About Iran,” which juxtaposes the hysterical, brazenly false statements made about Iraq at the turn of this century with the hysterical, brazenly false statements now being made about Iran … Continue reading →

We already are one !! Ellen Brown at Common Dreams explains (courtesy her Web of Debt blog, ellenbrown.com) how we reached the point that we’ve reached,and what we can do to return to actual democracy.

At the Seder last night I told Cindy how DARE she not let me know she’d just written about Wagner and the Jews!!! Here’s her interview with Leon Botstein for the Connecticut Jewish Ledger, occasioned by the new documentary Wagner’s … Continue reading →

Watching on youtube Anna Moffo–enchanting in voice, face, figure, presentation–at the Bing farewell gala in 1972–astonishing vocalism considering that her vocal travails had already begun. And when she’s finished the Gavotte from Manon–the applause reminds me of the sound you … Continue reading →