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Music Review: Beethoven Moving on, Challenging Tradition
Posted: October 7th, 2008, 6:18am GMT by By VIVIEN SCHWEITZER
Two ensembles, the Pacifica Quartet and the Orion Quartet took on Beethoven’s string quartets last week.
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Dance Review: Creators Creating, Identities Fragmenting
Posted: October 7th, 2008, 6:18am GMT by By GIA KOURLAS
As the French Institute Alliance Française’s festival Crossing the Line was winding down — which is bittersweet, for it has been splendid — it presented four singular artists on film and in person.
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Dance Review | Noémi Lafrance: From the Lawn to the Rooftop, a Stage for High Fliers
Posted: October 7th, 2008, 6:15am GMT by By CLAUDIA LA ROCCO
Last weekend Noémie Lafrance’s Sens Production company completed a two-week stint at Bard College, where she presented “Rapture” on — not in — the Frank Gehry-designed Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts.
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Music Review | American Symphony Orchestra: Mais Oui, Mostly French, Despite Wagnerian Touches
Posted: October 7th, 2008, 6:14am GMT by By STEVE SMITH
On Friday night at Avery Fisher Hall, American Symphony Orchestra offered a concert performance of Édouard Lalo’s “Roi d’Ys.”
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Dance Review | 'Breaking Ground': On the Fly: Five Easy Pieces, Among the Douglases and Lockheeds
Posted: October 7th, 2008, 6:13am GMT by By ROSLYN SULCAS
“Breaking Ground: A Dance Charrette” is an annual initiative that gives five choreographers the task of creating a five-minute work at a site revealed only five days before performances.
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Dance Review | Scottish Ballet: Stillness and High-Speed Rides in a Triple Bill From Scottish Ballet
Posted: October 7th, 2008, 6:11am GMT by By ALASTAIR MACAULAY
Scottish Ballet, which performed as part of London’s annual Dance Umbrella this weekend, has always included a larger element of the experimental than most British ballet companies.
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BBC Newscast Shifts Lineup on U.S. Public TV Stations
Posted: October 7th, 2008, 6:08am GMT by By ELIZABETH JENSEN
As the BBC expands its news presence in the states, new competition is emerging from American public television producers.
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Music Review | Edward Parks: An Array of Feelings, Expressed in Song
Posted: October 7th, 2008, 6:08am GMT by By VIVIEN SCHWEITZER
Edward Parks, a talented young baritone, sang like a man who had had his heart broken during a performance of Schumann’s “Dichterliebe” (Op. 48) at Christ and St. Stephen’s Church on Sunday.
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Cooper-Hewitt Is Poised for an Expansion and a Sprucing Up
Posted: October 7th, 2008, 6:06am GMT by By ROBIN POGREBIN
The Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum plans to begin work in January on the renovation and expansion of its ornate Fifth Avenue mansion.
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With Software, Artists Put Yet Another Spin on the Presidential Debates
Posted: October 7th, 2008, 6:06am GMT by By BEN SISARIO
For members of Sosolimited, remixing presidential debates is an act both of political engagement and mischief.
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Arts, Briefly: Book Deal for Tina Fey? You Betcha
Posted: October 7th, 2008, 6:06am GMT by Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF
Folksy mannerisms, a feisty updo and librarian’s glasses may or may not get you the vice president’s office, but they can get you a book deal.
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Arts, Briefly: An Earlier Coachella
Posted: October 7th, 2008, 6:05am GMT by Compiled by Dave Itzkoff
The 2009 edition of the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival, Southern California’s annual celebration of rock, pop, hip-hop, and searing desert heat, will be held a bit earlier than in previous years.
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Arts, Briefly: Footnotes
Posted: October 7th, 2008, 6:05am GMT by Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF
Matthew Broderick will return to Broadway in April in the comedy “The Philanthropist.”
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Arts, Briefly: Actors With Disabilities Seek More Roles
Posted: October 7th, 2008, 6:05am GMT by By MICHAEL CIEPLY; Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF
“We are virtually invisible,” Robert David Morgan, a regular on “CSI,” said at a news conference on Monday announcing a plan to expand media-industry employment of people with disabilities.
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Arts, Briefly: Dracula Lives
Posted: October 7th, 2008, 6:04am GMT by Compiled by Dave Itzkoff
Count Dracula, the great-granddaddy of vampires, is poised for a comeback.
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Arts, Briefly: Russian Group Buys Auction House
Posted: October 7th, 2008, 6:04am GMT by Compiled by Dave Itzkoff
Phillips de Pury & Company, the auction house and art dealership, has been acquired by the Mercury Group, a luxury distributor in Moscow.
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Arts, Briefly: ‘Daily Show’ Interview for Michelle Obama
Posted: October 7th, 2008, 6:04am GMT by By BRIAN STELTER; Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF
Michelle Obama, the wife of Senator Barack Obama, will make her first appearance on “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart” on Wednesday.
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Arts, Briefly: ‘Housewives’ Wins, but Ratings Weaken
Posted: October 7th, 2008, 6:03am GMT by By BENJAMIN TOFF; Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF
“Desperate Housewives” continued to see its ratings slide on Sunday, but the ABC drama remained the night’s top-rated program with 15.5 million viewers.
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Critic’s Choice: New DVDs: ‘Risky Business’ and ‘The Last Laugh’
Posted: October 7th, 2008, 6:02am GMT by By DAVE KEHR
A newly remastered edition of “Risky Business” restores the film’s subtle textures. And “The Last Laugh” has never looked as dazzling on home video until now.
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Exhibition Review | 'The Dead Sea Scrolls': Peering Into the Mystery of Those Enigmatic Fragments
Posted: October 7th, 2008, 6:01am GMT by By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN
Go see these six encased bits of ancient text at the Jewish Museum’s new exhibition, “The Dead Sea Scrolls: Mysteries of the Ancient World,” before it closes on Jan. 4.
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Books of The Times: Terrorists and Spies, Weaving Their Webs
Posted: October 7th, 2008, 5:58am GMT by By MICHIKO KAKUTANI
John le Carré’s latest novel is set in Hamburg, Germany, the city where Mohamed Atta and other members of Al Qaeda prepared for their assault on the United States.
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Music Review | Met Orchestra: Brahms’s Earthy Passion Upstages Somber Messiaen
Posted: October 7th, 2008, 5:57am GMT by By ANTHONY TOMMASINI
Of all the artists James Levine has had as concerto soloists for the Met Orchestra concerts, few have energized him and the players as much as the brilliant German violinist Christian Tetzlaff.
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Message to Your Grandma: Vote Obama
Posted: October 7th, 2008, 5:56am GMT by By DAVE ITZKOFF
As she prepares to launch a new season of her eponymous show, Sarah Silverman, the acerbic, anything-for-a-laugh comedian, has once again insinuated herself into e-mail inboxes with a Web video.
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A Clothing Shop Moves Up, and a Dance Company Must Move Out
Posted: October 7th, 2008, 5:46am GMT by By DANIEL J. WAKIN
After 20 years, the Paul Taylor Dance Company is being evicted from its home in SoHo to make way for a new Banana Republic.
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Ruedi Rymann, Swiss Yodeling Star, Dies at 75
Posted: October 7th, 2008, 4:54am GMT by By BRUCE WEBER
Mr. Rymann was a Swiss farmer and cheesemaker renowned in his home country as a yodeler and the man who recorded what came to be known as “Switzerland’s greatest hit.”
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Irene Dailey, Actress of Stage and TV, Dies at 88
Posted: October 7th, 2008, 4:38am GMT by By DENNIS HEVESI
Miss Dailey was an actress perhaps best known for her roles in television soap operas and for her portrayal of Nettie Cleary in the 1964 Tony Award-winning drama “The Subject Was Roses.”