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Copland House and Bluestone Farm—Music World Destinations
By George Gelles
The iconic composer Aaron Copland’s home in Cortlandt Manor, New York, and a recently acquired...
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The 62nd New York Film Festival: A Mixed Bag
By George Blecher
Our reviewer did his best But even with an abundance of movies to choose from, this year’s...
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Einstein, Cast Aside and Tossed in a Manhattan Closet
By Ian Strasfogel
(PART I OF A CONUNDRUM) The acclaimed photojournalist Lotte Jacobi’s iconic shot of the...
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Divorce, New York-Movie-Style
By Gabe Leibowitz
That classic splitsville film, The Squid and the Whale, gets a close viewing by a born-and-bred New...
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Michael Tilson Thomas: An Appreciation of the American Conductor
By George Gelles
The acclaimed American orchestra leader, celebrated for his Gustav Mahler concerts, continues...
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A Curtain of Coupons: Is it Art, Decor, or Just Plain Eccentricity?
By Myriam Chapman
Our second short fiction piece is about an apartment dweller, living on her own, meticulously...
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I’ll Never Forget … Ella Fitzgerald’s Final Concert at Carnegie Hall, 1991
By Maddine Insalaco
Even in fragile condition, even with one missed note, the great American jazz singer continued to...
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Job at Alphabet City’s Connelly Theater: An Ecstatic Review
By George Blecher
Spellbinding Nothing short of phenomenal So says our reviewer, George Blecher, of this 80-minute...
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I’ll Never Forget … My Friendship with Seiji Ozawa
By George Gelles
Rehearsing Mozart and Bizet with the late Japanese superstar conductor in Tanglewood and...
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I’ll Never Forget … The Grateful Dead and Summer of Love
By Suzanne Charlé
In 1969, it was all psychedelic joy with the Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane at Golden Gate...
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I’ll Never Forget … Schubert and Diamond
By Roberta Hershenson
This classical music lover appreciates pop sung with warmth and sincerity too By Roberta...
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“The Next Big Thing” Is About to Hit Town
By Grace Lichtenstein
The Prototype Festival, with its sometimes subversive, convention-defying, mold-breaking...
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Pina Bausch’s Power-Packed “Rite of Spring”
By George Gelles
“Visceral” and “ferocious,” it jumps off the stage in the Drill Hall of that Gilded Age...
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I’ll Never Forget … Erroll Garner, Carnegie Hall
By Susan Shafer
Three and a half hours into the celebrated jazz pianist’s much-anticipated performance at New...
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A Mozartiana Extravaganza
By George Gelles
Mozart festivals, Mozart books, Mozart in Salzburg, Mozart in Vienna, Mozart gifts—even Mozart...
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I’ll Never Forget … Maria Callas as Tosca, 1965
By Ian Strasfogel
The fabled diva compelled and galvanized the public as Puccini’s tragic heroine at the...
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I’ll Never Forget … Beatlemania, 1964 & 1966
By Karen Feld
History in the making: two hectic, frenetic Washington, DC concerts, two years apart, complete with...
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I’ll Never Forget … Judy Garland, Carnegie Hall
By Ellen Freed
The energy was powerful—and palpable—during this “greatest night in show-biz history” By...
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Art Cinema—An Endangered Species?
By George Blecher
A rundown of six New York Film Festival films (two of them terrific; the rest—not so much), plus...
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I am a Camera (American-Style)
By Debbie Rubin
A former high school English teacher recounts her life-changing, midlife photography career By...
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I’ll Never Forget…Ornette and Otello—Early ’60s
By Linda Dyett
That would be Ornette Coleman, performing free-form, rule-breaking jazz at the Five Spot in...
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I’ll Never Forget … the Rat Pack at the Sands, 1963
By Sally Wendkos Olds
Frank Sinatra, et al, kibbitzing and singing as smooth as a dry martini at the Sands in Las...
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I’ll Never Forget … Billie Holiday, June 15, 1957
By George Blecher
The night the music came alive at the Loew’s Sheridan Theatre, New York City By George...
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Art on the Go: In the NYC Subway (of all places)
By George Gelles
The trains may be crowded and delayed, but hey—the platforms are morphing into art...
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Just in Time for Summer: Book Reviews!
By NYCitywoman Writers
Recalling the ’60s, two very different takes on women’s rights and feminism—one fiction, the...
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Pure Play: The Knight of the Burning Pestle
By Ian Strasfogel
Zany Elizabethan antics (including improv) descend on Christopher Street By Ian...
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Why Dance Matters: A Soaring Review
By George Gelles
Celebrating a book that itself is a celebration By George Gelles On her toes:...
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Paying Tribute to Joni Mitchell
By Karen Feld
The multi-award-winning singer, songwriter, environmentalist, activist—and painter—has always...
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Marilyn Maye: Celebrating 95
By Karen Feld
The ultimate performer who made a comeback in her senior years, Maye is a role model for many...
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Breaking New Ground at the Met Opera
By Ian Strasfogel
Contemporary works are making inroads The classics Not selling so well By Ian...
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Two Artists’ Eyes on New York
By Suzanne Charlé
Edward Hopper at the Whitney, Alex Katz at the Guggenheim By Suzanne...
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An Eighty-Year-Old Gets a Dancing Dragon Tattoo
By Myriam Chapman
On her ankle OK, it’s only fiction, but this could happen—especially to a tempeh-eating Upper...
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A New Yorker Abroad—in ’60s Germany
By Ian Strasfogel
A visit to Richard Wagner territory in Bayreuth brings a young New York Jew face to face with the...
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Balanchine! In Book Form
By George Gelles
Here comes a new biography—Mr B—followed by video links to several of his mesmerizing...
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Our Book Reviews are Back. Part 2: Nonfiction
By NYCitywoman Writers
Facts matter Our latest nonfiction book reviews run a wide gamut of facts, covering such issues as...
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Our Book Reviews are Back. Part 1: Fiction
By NYCitywoman Writers
We start with four novels, telling tales—and tales within tales Becauseisn’t reality...
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Putting the Pandemic in Verse
By Shelley Stenhouse
Our latest Corona Chronicle captures New York in Our Year of the Plague 2022 Photos...
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Tár with Cate Blanchett: A Review
By Ian Strasfogel
Our critic, a music insider, gives this film a reality check—and finds it lacking By Ian...
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Leopoldstadt on Broadway: A Review
By George Blecher
Tom Stoppard’s highly anticipated take on the tragedy of Austro-German Jews is only occasionally...
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You’ve Never Heard of Soundies?
By George Gelles
These three-minute nostalgia-laden music and dance blasts, played on jukeboxes with screens in the...
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Paws-a-tively Ready for Their Close-Ups
By Ruth J. Katz
Carmen González, who is very possibly New York’s ulti-mutt dog photographer, ruffs—oops,...
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Leaf-Turning Autumn Music in the Berkshires
By Grace Lichtenstein
We’re talking Beethoven, Ravel, Chopin, jazz, blues, folk, gospel, Judy Collins, Van Morrison,...
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The Promiscuous Gardener
By George Blecher
Riffing on the sly and guileful beauty of roses By George Blecher The author,...
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The Man Who Loved Movies
By Toby Talbot
Dan Talbot set the pace for independent films and arthouse cinemas in New York—and way...
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Famous Father Girl, a Memoir
By Grace Lichtenstein
In her new memoir, Famous Father Girl, Jamie Bernstein candidly recalls her life as the eldest...
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A Celluloid Visionary Gets His Due
By Roberta Hershenson
But it’s complicated The Jewish Museum’s exhibit of Jonas Mekas’s films has caused...
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A Misbegotten Macbeth Descends on Broadway
By George Blecher
The knives are out in this scathing review of the Sam Gold production starring Daniel Craig and...
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A Book That’ll Jolt Your Mind
By Suzanne Charlé
Everyday Play: A Campaign Against Boredom is a quirky, offbeat, maybe even subversive guide to...
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House Painting, Ancient Roman-Style
By Maddine Insalaco
Frescoes from a vanished world offer a modern take on meanings and makers By Maddine...
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Roll Over, Beethoven—This Time for Women
By George Gelles
From Baroque to contemporary music, female composers at last are getting their due By George...
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