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2021-07-14 07:00:08
Thinking About The Better Part Of Valor
Assuming The Metropolitan Opera doesn’t settle the ongoing labor dispute with Musicians beforehand, July 18 may be the earliest date for details to emerge about the recent tentative agreement between the employer and IATSE (International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees). July 18 is the date IATSE members plan to hold their ratification meeting so it’s reasonable to assume that will be the earliest we can expect to see reliable details about the ...
2020-04-07 00:38:00
John Malveaux: POLITICS of MUSIC concert June 29, 2020 at Walt Disney Concert Hall will include chamber music composed by Roy Harris
Roy Harris Dmitri Shostakovich John Malveaux of MusicUNTOLD.com writes: American composer Roy Harris Symphony '1933' was the 1st commercially recorded symphony in the United States. Roy Harris 5th Symphony was commissioned by the Boston Symphony conductor Serge Koussevitzky, a close friend of Dmitri Shostakovich. Roy Harris dedicated his 5th Symphony to the Russian soldiers who were our allies during WWII. The work premiered Feb 26, 1943 with the Boston Symphony. In 1958, Roy Harris was a member of our 1st State Department cultural exchange with the Soviet Union. Roy Harris was embraced by prominent Russian music dignitaries including Dmitri Shostakovich. Roy Harris conducted the Moscow Radio Symphony in a performance of his 5th Symphony. During the second Red Scare called McCarthyism, Roy Harris was asked to stop a USA performance of […]
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2018-03-30 14:04:47
Frank Gaylord, Sculptor Of Korean War Memorial, Dead At 93
"Mr. Gaylord, a World War II Army paratrooper who received the Bronze Star Medal for Valor during the Battle of the Bulge, said he intended his sculptures to 'confront visitors with the reality of actual war' while complying with the design committee's instructions not to glorify it."
2017-01-25 21:37:00
Lights out. Mary Tyler Moore has died, and I am taking stock of her legacy. Two brilliant television shows, plus several not so brilliant (including New York News, her short-lived collaboration with Madeline Kahn). An unforgettable, Oscar-nominated performance in Ordinary People. An eternal role model for working women. And a role model for journalists, too. She often played journalists — even in the TV movie First You Cry — and her influence extends indirectly to Ed Asner’s Lou Grant, Nancy Marchand’s Mrs. Pynchon, and other characters. America seemed to feel differently about journalism in those days. Woodward and Bernstein became national heroes during the run of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, and Dan Rather became not just a reporter but a star. Mary Richards was cut from different cloth, and yet she was to me every bit as much an inspiration. It can’t really be said that […]
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