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EXCLUSIVE: Chicago Symphony Orchestra Trombonist Michael Mulcahy Talks Brass Tributes to Bud Herseth, Edward Kleinhammer
Macabre Metaphor: Jan van Eyck's 'Crucifixion and Last Judgment'
Whether the Pope's Latin Joannen praeclarum Brugiensem (or the more vulgar Johannes Gallicus), the Italianate Giovanni da Bruggia, or Johannes de Eyck in his own florid, notarial script, "Jan van Eyck"--as we, the English have dubbed him--was indeed the greatest artist of the International Gothic style in Flanders. WATCH: Soprano Martina Arroyo, Pianist Herbie Hancock Honored at 2013 Kennedy Center Honors in Washington
The theme continued when Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the first Hispanic member of the nation's highest court, introduced opera diva Arroyo. The daughter of a Puerto Rican father and an African-American mother, Arroyo grew up in an unlikely place for a future opera star: New York City's Harlem neighborhood.
