I’ll Never Forget … The Grateful Dead and Summer of Love

In 1969, it was all psychedelic joy with the Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane at…


I’ll Never Forget … Schubert and Diamond

This classical music lover appreciates pop sung with warmth and sincerity too By Roberta Hershenson…


“The Next Big Thing” Is About to Hit Town

The Prototype Festival, with its sometimes subversive, convention-defying, mold-breaking theater By Grace Lichtenstein   Upwards:…


Pina Bausch’s Power-Packed “Rite of Spring”

“Visceral” and “ferocious,” it jumps off the stage in the Drill Hall of that Gilded…


I’ll Never Forget … Erroll Garner, Carnegie Hall

Three and a half hours into the celebrated jazz pianist’s much-anticipated performance at New York’s…


A Mozartiana Extravaganza

Mozart festivals, Mozart books, Mozart in Salzburg, Mozart in Vienna, Mozart gifts—even Mozart music By…


I’ll Never Forget … Maria Callas as Tosca, 1965

The fabled diva compelled and galvanized the public as Puccini’s tragic heroine at the Metropolitan…


I’ll Never Forget … Beatlemania, 1964 & 1966

History in the making: two hectic, frenetic Washington, D.C. concerts, two years apart, complete with…


I’ll Never Forget … Judy Garland, Carnegie Hall

The energy was powerful—and palpable—during this “greatest night in show-biz history” By Ellen Freed  …


Art Cinema—An Endangered Species?

A rundown of six New York Film Festival films (two of them terrific; the rest—not…