WQXR's Arts File: A Little Night Music
Preview shows for the Broadway revival of A Little Night Music began this week at Walter Kerr Theater. It's the first time the musical, a witty convoluted love story by Stephen Sondheim and Hugh...
View ArticleWQXR Arts File: The Orchestra's Balance Sheet
A few weeks ago, WQXR looked at a couple of opera companies who are doing well financially, even as the recession continues to affect arts organizations nationwide.This week's Arts File on WQXR looks...
View ArticleChanging of the Guard at the Glimmerglass Opera Festival
Since 1975, the Glimmerglass Opera Festival has filled the upstate air with summers of opera. Starting in September, the company will have a new general and artistic director, Francesca Zambello....
View ArticleThe Stephen Sondheim Theatre
Composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim celebrated his 80th birthday this week and got a pretty unique gift. The name of Henry Miller's Theatre on West 43rd street was changed to the Stephen Sondheim...
View ArticleWhat's in an Encore?
One of the most anticipated--and sometimes even most surprising--parts of any musical recital or concert is the encore.In this week's Arts File on WQXR, Kerry Nolan disects encores with Anne Midgette,...
View ArticleFord Announces New Arts Grants
This week, the Ford Foundation announced it would give out $100 million dollars over the next ten years to arts groups nationwide for the construction, maintenance and enhancement of arts facilities....
View ArticlePulitzer Prize Winner Jennifer Higdon
Earlier this week, the 2010 Pulitzer Prizes were announced. The winner in the music category was "Violin Concerto," by Brooklyn-born composer Jennifer Higdon. Higdon wrote the concerto for violin...
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The National Museum of Catholic Art and History
Last year, the National Museum of Catholic Art and History quietly closed its doors, just five years after it opened in a renovated East Harlem school. The museum's founder, Christina Cox, announced...
View ArticleThe Whitney Heads Downtown
Earlier this week, the Whitney Museum of American Art's board decided unanimously that it wanted to move forward with its plans to break ground on a new building in Lower Manhattan's Meatpacking...
View ArticleSummer Music Camp for Adults
Fantasy baseball camp, fantasy cooking camp and fantasy rock-and-roll camp. Every summer, enthusiastic amateurs descend on adult camps all over the country. This June, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra...
View ArticleThe NY International Fringe Festival
When most people think of the Fringe Festival, they think of a bit of anarchy maybe--a rag-tag collection of musicians, artists, actors, comedians--each pushing the envelope of the art form. The...
View ArticleFrom Regular New Yorker to NYC Tourist
The end of the summer means endings and beginnings in many forms. But for New York Times Editor Jan Benzel, the end of this summer means more than for most of us: after nearly thirty years of living in...
View ArticlePreviewing the Fifth Annual Brooklyn Book Festival
Brooklyn's already scorching cool factor goes up a notch this weekend when the fifth annual Brooklyn Book Festival takes over book stores, bars and arts spaces all over the borough. This year, the...
View ArticleHow Abstract Expressionism Took Off in New York
In the 1940s and 1950s, a group of New York City artists changed the course of art history with drips, color and aggressive, abstract paintings. Bad boy figures like Jackson Pollock, known for his...
View ArticleA Remembrance of Playwright Lanford Wilson
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lanford Wilson passed away Thursday at 73. His plays have been widely performed at regional theaters around the country as well as on Broadway and on Off and Off Off...
View ArticleTribeca Film Festival Celebrates 10th Anniversary
In this week's Arts File, Kerry Nolan speaks with Salon.com senior writer Andrew O'Hehir about this year's Tribeca Film Festival and how it has changed over the years. This year, 47 films are making...
View ArticleRing Cycle: Die Walküre at the Metropolitan Opera
In this week's Arts File, Kerry Nolan speaks with Anne Midgette, classical music critic for the Washington Post about a new production of Die Walküre, the second of four operas in Wagner's Ring...
View ArticleRomance Writers Conference Comes to New York City
The Romance Writers of America is holding its conference here in New York. The romance writers are attending events that deal with research about sex throughout history, understanding men, and even...
View ArticleArt From the Disintegration of an Empire
Two new shows in New York focus on life in the former Soviet bloc during the last thirty years. The exhibits, at the New Museum and at the Museum of Modern Art, portray a time when old systems were...
View ArticleExamining the World Trade Center Site and 9/11 Memorial
As the tenth anniversary of the September 11th attack approaches, the World Trade Center site is starting to take shape. Two towers, including One World Trade Center, are climbing skyward, and the 9/11...
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