Top Posts From AJBlogs For 11.22.15 – ArtsJournal

Recent Listening In Brief
Jazz is not dying. I know that because the postman, the Fed Ex driver and the UPS man keep dropping off proof that it’s alive. I can’t keep up with all of the albums they… … read more
AJBlog: RiffTidesPublished 2015-11-22

Adieu, Sylvie, et Merci
Sylvie Guillem dances into retirement. Sylvie Guillem in Akram Khan’s TeknêPhoto: Bill Cooper Force of Nature. That’s the title of a documentary about the career of the formidable French dancer, Sylvie Guillem (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmMaNQBED8Q). You… … read more

AJBlog: DancebeatPublished 2015-11-21

Carnage and Kentridge: Metropolitan Opera’s “Lulu,” Then and Now

Enriched by more than four decades of avid museum- and performance-going, I’m both blessed and cursed with having seen so many definitive exhibitions and performances that I’m hard to impress. I was knocked out and… … read more

AJBlog: CultureGrrlPublished 2015-11-20

Words and music

It’s a truism that great poetry doesn’t always make for great lyrics. Most composers who have set a lot of poetry can attest to the fact that some of the things that make a poem… … read more

AJBlog: Infinite CurvesPublished 2015-11-20

Time to help

I’m often asked to support things out in the classical music world — causes, performances, projects, groups, crowdfunding campaigns. And I almost always don’t do it, because when these requests get numerous, they could… … read more

AJBlog: SandowPublished 2015-11-20

Small Museum Makes Waves

For Sotheby’s, the continuing sales of Alfred Taubman’s estate have got to be a disappointment. The auctioneer may not even make back its $500 million-plus guarantee, based on sales of his Impressionist, Modern, contemporary and… … read more

AJBlog: Real Clear ArtsPublished 2015-11-20

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