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Festival Cadences dance performance: lineaments of now [By Tracy Danison]
Festival Cadences: critically-acclaimed, new and new-style dance performance. Photo: Courtesy Collectif Overjoyed September vacations are one of the advantages of our palsied, trembling, yet surprisingly mobile and cheery, old age: cooler weather, fewer convinced…
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John Ashbery Conversation [by Mitch Sisskind]
Here’s a recording I did with John Ashbery.I was a bit nervous at the beginning andthe sound quality is not the best. Still,speaking with John was an opportunity notto be missed. I had gotten…
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Jay Nordlinger on Mark Van Doren
Shakespeare with Van Doren Mark Van Doren at his farm in Cornwall, Conn., July 17, 1969 (Bettmann / Contributor via Getty Images) By Jay Nordlinger January 31, 2025 6:30 AM On learning…
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“I Never Knew” [with Count Basie in 1940]
and Tommy Dorsey, too, in 1938: and Benny Goodman, Lester Young and company (1940):
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“Ice” [by Sophie Cabot-Black]
ICE A small animal went out to the middleAnd disappeared. No sign of anythingFurther. At the border, where treesNo longer take root, the brave track, Steadfast, written only so far.We grow quiet enough to…
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“A Day Like Any Other. The Life of James Schuyler” by Nathan Kernan [reviewed by Angela Ball]
(New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2025, 503 pages.) We have long hoped for a biography of James Schuyler. Now, thanks to Nathan Kernan, who also gave us The Diary of James Schuyler, we…
