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Can you believe that while Finley and Drake are in Zankel, in the Isaac Stern main hall at Carnegie, the St. Petersburg Philharmonic is playing that same night?? I’ll never forget attending a chamber concert at the Philharmonic’s home theater … Continue reading →

He’s not singing at the Met this season (was his Count last season something simply too good to be surpassed?), but he’ll be at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall February 13 to sing Schubert’s Winterreise, accompanied by Julius Drake, with whom he’s … Continue reading →

I always underline in pencil as I’m reading a book. When you underline you can always easily get back to the parts that you felt were most important.  I recently picked up a book w/fabulous words and pictures that I’d … Continue reading →

If you’ve got any lingering belief that, as a class, our  “mainstream” media “news reporters” are honest actors, Eric Boehlert at Media Matters will put it to rest with his dissection of the way that Christie was sold to the … Continue reading →

It’s funny: whenever there is any attempt in our government to make our society function for anybody else than the one-percent, the right wing throws the word “socialism” around as a bugaboo that is supposed to arouse a Pavlovian (I … Continue reading →

In the current issue of Pointe Magazine, Gillian Murphy and Laura Jacobs try to pin down what it is. P.S.: Not “pin down,” I should say “explore.”  They’re not attempting to be certitutidinous.

Scientific American describes how radioactive iodine from Fukushima has been found in kelp off the coast of California.

— for morality. And now someone has: Ronnie Moas of Standpoint Research, who downgrades Apple over the way it treats workers: “For Apple Computers to pay their workers $2 an hour while they have $150 billion in the bank is … Continue reading →

Transcribing in full for the first time my interview with Muriel Stuart from 1981. About her time spent dancing with Pavlova and her troupe– Pavlova was “the first Russian that I have ever known who was interested in what was … Continue reading →

At New York City Ballet’s Nutcracker last week, Megan Fairchild was flipping some of the switches. It’s not like there’s any doubt that Fairhchild has pretty legs and feet.  We know that. But as she balanced in arabesque at the end … Continue reading →