Coney Island Sideshow Has Guantnamo Waterboarding as Its Theme
Some people look at Coney Island and see a paradise of carefree entertainment. Others see a cesspool of gritty squalor. Few are those who gaze upon its shrieking kids, grizzled wanderers and fast-talking flimflam artists and see an opportunity for en...
Dance - Miro Magloire, a Composer Turned Choreographer
MIRO MAGLOIRE was only 17 when he took a graduate level composition class at the Cologne musical conservatory in his native Germany. Although he had started piano at 6 and had recently won a prestigious young composer’s award in his home state,...
Music Review - Riverside Symphony - The Riverside Symphony, Displaced, Calls on Warmer Halls - Review
The Riverside Symphony plays only three concerts a year, but like every other group that normally performs at Alice Tully Hall, it has been displaced for the hall’s renovation. The silver lining is that it was able to try out the auditorium of t...
Music Review - Michael Winther - Michael Winther Explores a Whole Lot of Love Songs, Gay, Straight, Young, Old - Review
Old love, new love, straight love, gay love: as many varieties of passion as there are songs in the program are scrutinized with a sophisticated 21st-century eye in “New Love Songs,” the singer Michael Winther’s tender, witty show at...
Music Review - Charlie Haden - Charlie Hadens Quartet West Revives the Sound of Old Hollywood - Review
Charlie Haden’s Quartet West opened its late set at the new club Le Poisson Rouge on Wednesday with Charlie Parker’s “Passport” and got right into it. The saxophonist Ernie Watts began as if he were in the middle of things, wit...
Music Review - Alicia Keys - Alicia Keys Performs at Madison Square Garden - Review
Seated behind her piano on Wednesday night, plucking out the first few chords of “Sure Looks Good to Me,” Alicia Keys finally looked at ease. For about 20 minutes she had breathlessly, and limply, worked the Madison Square Garden stage ...
Arias in Prospect Park, Courtesy of the Met ( Opera Stars Included)
Sara Krulwich
Angela Gheorghiu and Roberto Alagna’s rehearsal this week at Prospect Park attracted onlookers. "We’re here to please the most people we can," Mr. Alagna said.
PLAYFUL kisses, an arm around the shoulder, quiet &#...
