Playing Around Archives

MD/Piano – Ian Herman, Guitar-Peter Calo, Bass – Mark Palombi, Drums – Mark McLean. Carole J. Bufford has great affection [...]

November 16, 2020

Week 36 is dedicated to the Metropolitan Opera’s Music Director, conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin, with seven thrilling performances [...]

November 15, 2020

The Trial of the Chicago 7, currently on Netflix, is the latest film from playwright/producer/screenwriter Aaron Sorkin and the second [...]

November 13, 2020

Photos and Text by Eleanor Foa Dienstag This is a less eccentric fashion exhibition than we are used to from the Met, and for that reason [...]

November 12, 2020

The second in this season’s Preludes-Lyrics and Lyricists Series at the 92Y. [...]

November 12, 2020

Calamity Jane 1953 Musical by Sammy Fain/Frances Paul Webster. Loosely based on the alleged romance of frontierswoman Martha Jane Cannary [...]

November 11, 2020

The tour through operatic history continues from last week. Week 35 kicks off in the late 19th century with Tchaikovsky’s last opera [...]

November 8, 2020

Mildred Pierce 1945 Based on the novel by James M. Cain. Directed by Michael Curtiz. Psychologically oriented noir. Told in flashback after [...]

November 5, 2020