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U R My Jaan Sees Solid Opening in Cinemas Across India
U R My Jaan an emotional love story starring newcomers Mikaal and Preeti, is the product of debutant director Aron Govil. The movie produced and released by Aron Govil Productions Pvt. Ltd., in over 250 screens across the country had robust opening and...
Britney Spears Delivers Surprise Performances Inside Rain Nightclub
Palms Casino Resort welcomed Jive Records recording artist Britney Spears to Rain Nightclub for two surprise performances on Friday, March 25. The performances were filmed by MTV as part of an upcoming Britney Spears special that will air next week in...
The ‘Other’ Bicentennial?
Perhaps it was just a shortcoming in my reading habits, but I found it interesting that The New York Times was already revving itself up for the bicentennial of the birth of Frédéric Chopin on January 2, while the first notice that Chopin shared...
Making Our Own Listening History
I just finished reading Chloe Veltman’s latest post to her lies like truth blog under the title “Should Composers Conduct Their Own Works?” The claim she was trying to warrant was that, over the course of the two Project San Francisco...
Alone with the Beauty?
I suspect that one of the major downsides in following that “Monk-Amram” path of finding the beauty in a performance of music and disregarding “the rest of it” is that the trip down that path can be a lonely one. Not only does...
It Pays to Criticize!
Two weeks ago I decided to go on a rant over what I felt was an injudicious, not to mention inappropriate, use of the superlative. The text in question was Ricky Riccardi’s review of the new biography of Louis Armstrong by Terry Teachout that...
Pushkin’s ‘Comedy of Distress’ Today
Regular readers know that I am particularly taken with the phrase “comedy of distress,” which seems to have originated with Alexander Pushkin. Pushkin applied it to his play about Tsar Boris Godunov, but most recently I applied it to the...
A Sin of Omission in the Omission of Sin
As I gradually work my way to the final chapters of Men, Women and Pianos, Arthur Loesser’s effort to cast a social history of life in both Europe and the United States around the role that the piano played in that social life, it occurred to...
