Theater
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Helen Mirren Returning to Broadway as Queen Elizabeth II in 'The Audience'
Peter Morgan's play imagines the private audiences with the Queen of Britain's many prime ministers through the decades. REPORT: Konfrontationen, Day 2 - 35th Festival for Free & Improvised Music @ Nickelsdorf - Andrew Choate
Improvised music, for those of us that really love it and pursue it and listen to it regularly, is often, perhaps surprisingly, a very private music. We often listen to recordings privately, and we have private experiences with the music. But this festival provides the opportunity to experience it publicly, with a large enough amount of people (300-400) to provide the perfect framing of attention and grandeur that the music challenges itself to conjure. Not only that, but enthusiasts like myself are given the opportunity to thank the musicians who make this music and who have devoted so much of themselves to it. That opportunity to give thanks to the people who do things you really care about isn't necessarily bigger than the experience of the music, but it does perfume the air of the Jazzgalerie with another layer of love.
