Posted: Jan 02, 2021 6:00 AM NT | Last Updated: January 2
A few days off over the holidays, a comfortable couch, and a good book: in this case, Jim Case s novel Ananias. (Submitted by John Gushue)
There s a bit of lore in our family about me and a box of cornflakes. My sister Lisa tells me when I had nothing handy to read when I was little, I would read the back of the box and then the sides. Niacin, iron and a list of vitamins? Read all about it, many times over.
I m always grateful I grew up in a family of readers. It no doubt had an influence on my career: when you re swimming in words as a kid, why not make them the tools you work with as a grownup?
Time to usher out 2020
Dec. 25, 2020
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VIRUOSI CONCERT: Aymeric Dupre la Tour, seen here in 2015 at First Church Congregational in Fairfield, will perform Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 9 “Jenamy” as the Connecticut Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra presents “Virtuosi Christmas Concert A Traditional Holiday Celebration of Joy and Beauty’’ on Sunday, Dec.r 27, at Trinity-on-Main in New Britain and Facebook Live at 5 p.m. For the livestream, go to the Virtuosi Christmas Concert-Facebook Live page.Meg Barone / Contributed photoShow MoreShow Less
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AT ELY CENTER: Melanie Carr’s “Shrouded Truth” is part of the Ely Center of Contemporary Art’s exhibition Solos 2020, in which six artists’ works from the 2020 Open Call are spotlighted. The 51 Trumbull St., New Haven, gallery’s winter hours are Sundays and Mondays 1-4 p.m. and Thursdays 1-5 p.m.Ely Center / Contributed photo /Show MoreShow Less
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Pierce Mansfield got his start in theatre when he auditioned for the title role in the DMMO’s production of Menotti’s Amahl and the Night Visitors. At the time, he was a twelve-year-old sixth-grader at Merrill Middle School in Des Moines.
18-year-old Emory University freshman Pierce Mansfield made his Des Moines Metro Opera debut in 2013. Fast forward to 2020, and he isn’t exactly sure what he “wants to be when he grows up” although he’s hopeful that his future will involve either being a film and media business major, professional bass-guitarist, or singer-songwriter. His immediate goal is to organize a college band with several of his music buddies.
Despite having the UK debut of his play
Daddy postponed due to the devil in the form of the coronavirus, playwright Jeremy O. Harris has not slowed down in 2020. Just a few weeks ago he featured in Gus Van Sant’s short film
Overture of Something That Never Ended, shown as part of GucciFest, and now he’s teamed up with SSENSE to create a his very own fashion collection.
As part of the Canadian luxury retailer’s latest initiative SSENSE WORKS, which aims to collaborate with cross-disciplinary creatives on a series of garments and products, Harris is the first in line to drop a offering. Drawing inspiration from a range of Black writers and artists who, to him, are a source of joy, the likes of Zora Neale Hurston, Carl Van Vechten, jazz singer and actress Ethel Water, Janicza Bravo, Tyler Mitchell, and Jacob Lawrence were all on his moodboard.
The first page of George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” in pencil. Music Division.
At some point during the hectic composition of “Rhapsody in Blue,” one of George Gershwin’s masterpieces of 20th-century American music, the maestro got impatient with the process. The piece, which was to debut in just a few short weeks, would eventually run to 22,000 notes over 500 measures, after all.
In Gershwin’s handwritten score of “Rhapsody,” he sketched out the notation for his piano solo but left a small section blank in the second draft, as by then copyists were helping notate each change that he was making as the piece came together. That solo section stayed blank in the third and final score arranged by Ferde Grofé, with only a note to conductor Paul Whiteman to “wait for nod” when Gershwin launched into his solo.