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The thunder among the chrysanthemums
At the New York Botanical Garden’s Kiku display, Brooklyn taiko master Hiro Kurashima considers the discipline of the drum, the patience of…
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Berlioz’s nightmare takes over Carnegie Hall
Classical music | Preview Hector Berlioz gave his Symphonie fantastique a plot worthy of a fever dream. A young artist falls violently…
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Jenůfa returns to the Met with a cruel question about forgiveness
Classical music | Preview In Janáček’s Jenůfa, the catastrophe takes place in the name of respectability. A young woman has a child…
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Asmik Grigorian brings opera’s dangerous women into one evening
Classical music | Preview Opera’s heroines rarely have the luxury of an uneventful afternoon. They scheme, plead, sacrifice themselves and sometimes die…
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The Philharmonic takes Puccini out of the opera house
Classical music | Preview Tosca is an opera in which almost nobody tells the truth and nearly everyone pays for it. Puccini…
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At the Met, the dead are not finished speaking
Classical music | Preview Abraham Lincoln’s son Willie died in 1862, while the Civil War was tearing the country apart. In George…
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Jimmy Buffett’s first band gets its own film at Village East
Jimmy Buffett’s original backing band takes the spotlight in Occupational Hazard: The First Coral Reefers, opening Friday, October 30, for a weeklong…
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Blond in Car found her calling at 58. Now she’s headlining Brooklyn.
Robin Schorr left a twenty-year film career and wrote her first song at fifty-eight. Ahead of her Brooklyn show, she talks about…
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Back to the nineties, with a synthesizer
At a Roland opening party in the Meatpacking District, synths, purple lights and downtown hipsters conjured a nineties club night.
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Duff Goldman brings The Tao of Duff to City Winery on November 3
Food Network chef and baker Duff Goldman will trade the kitchen for the stage at City Winery in Manhattan on November 3…
