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Stephen Sondheim, Jessye Norman and a "Mount Rushmore of Music" Celebrate Leonard Bernstein at Carnegie Gala
Watch Montclair State's Harry Partch Ensemble in David Lang's 'Collected Stories: Heroes' @ Carnegie Hall...Next to WQXR's Strauss, Sibelius
Last week, David Lang, Carnegie Hall's Debs Composer Chair, oversaw a brilliantly curated series of concerts he called Collected Stories. From April 22-29, his programming explored subjects commonly found in music--heroes, spirits, love/loss, travel, (post)folk. Pawn in Their Game: Britannia Coco-nut Dancers Undergo Massive Scrutiny via Will Shaw's Twitter, Public Outrage Shakes Black-Face Tradition
You can't go black face and get away with it nowadays--even if the incentive to do so is lost behind a shrouded history of a greasy suburban town called Bolton.