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Classical: Maria Callas Sings Puccini’s ‘Vissi d’Arte’
The story is told through the designer’s unique style, using the collage technique to create unique textures, expressions, and effects.
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Technology: How AI Is Changing Entertainment
Video timeline: 01:07 AI is changing the music business 04:09 How big data revolutionised entertainment industries 05:20 Can AI predict a film’s success? 09:26 How generative AI is creating new opportunities 12:36 What are the risks of generative AI?
Classical Music: Top New Releases – January 2024
- Tchaikovsky: Complete Symphonies
- Adriana: Her Portrait, Her Life, Her Music
- Couperin Dynasty
- Schubert/Liszt: Der Wanderer, Wanderer Fantasie, Song Transcriptions
- Shostakovich and Pupils, Vol.1
- Martinu: String Quartets
- Bonis: Complete Music for Flute & Piano
- Lebrun: Oboe Concertos
- Hoffmann: Mandolin Quartets
- Paradigma Medioevo: Music from 14th-century Italy
- De Araújo: Organ Music
- Adams: Piano Music
The Year In Review: Music, Film And Fashion In 2023
The New Criterion – January 2024 Preview
The New Criterion – January 2024 issue:
A stately setting by Myron Magnet
The Loeb Platos by Mark F. McClay
The peace women by Peter Baehr
Hopper horrors at the Whitney by Gail Levin
New poems by Peter Vertacnik
The New York Times Book Review – November 19, 2023
THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW (November 19, 2023): This week’s issue features Fuchsia Dunlop’s seductive new exploration of Chinese cuisine, “Invitation to a Banquet”; Michael Lewis Tells His Own Story of Sam Bankman-Fried; He Carried the Bags (and the Secrets) for the Beatles – A new biography resuscitates the colorful, tragic life of Mal Evans: roadie, confidant, procurer, cowbell player…
A History of Chinese Food, and a Sensory Feast
Fuchsia Dunlop’s “Invitation to a Banquet” is a cultural investigation of an impossibly broad and often misunderstood cuisine.
INVITATION TO A BANQUET: The Story of Chinese Food, by Fuchsia Dunlop
“A really good cookbook,” Jan Morris wrote, “is intellectually more adventurous than the Kama Sutra.” Fuchsia Dunlop’s masterly new book, “Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food,” is not a cookbook per se. But it has an earthiness that calls to mind Morris’s comment.
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Listen to a Wellness-Culture Satire That Delves a Few Levels Deeper
In Jessie Gaynor’s debut novel, “The Glow,” read by Gabra Zackman, a P.R. rep immerses herself in the woo-woo world of a cultlike “spiritual retreat,” and its enigmatic leader.
The New York Times Book Review – November 12, 2023
THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW (November 12, 2023): This week’s issue features ‘Fear of Flying’ turns 50 – With its feminist take on sexual pleasure, Erica Jong’s novel caused a sensation in 1973; The 2023 New York Times/New York Public Library Best Illustrated Children’s Books, and more…
‘Fear of Flying’ Is 50. What Happened to Its Dream of Freedom Through Sex?
With its feminist take on sexual pleasure, Erica Jong’s novel caused a sensation in 1973. But the revolution Jong promoted never came to pass.
By Jane Kamensky
Fifty years ago last month, Erica Jong published a debut novel that went on to sell more than 20 million copies. “Fear of Flying,” a book so sexually frank that you may have found it hidden in your mother’s underwear drawer, broke new ground in the explicitness of writing by and for women. Jong’s heroine, Isadora Wing, was a live wire. She was also a dead end, certainly for Jong, and maybe for feminism, too.
6 New Paperbacks to Read This Week
Recommended reading from the Book Review, including titles by John Edgar Wideman, Yasunari Kawabata, Allegra Goodman and more.
Arts & Culture: The New Criterion — Dec 2023
The New Criterion – December 2023 issue:
Art a special section
Absinthe minded by Barnaby Conrad III
The three faces of Lafayette by Michele H. Bogart
Matisse & Derain: a study in contrasts by James Panero
Rodin & Michelangelo: a speculation by Eric Gibson
A German restoration drama by Michael J. Lewis
Notes on “Le Serf” by William Tucker
Thirties at the Met by Karen Wilkin
New poems by Kieron Winn & Richard Tillinghast
The New York Times Book Review – November 5, 2023
THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW (November 5, 2023): This week’s issue features music memoirs and biographies crammed into a single season including Madonna, Tupac Shakur, Sly Stone, Britney Spears, Thurston Moore, Jeff Tweedy and — soon — Barbra Streisand…
The Muchness of Madonna
Mary Gabriel’s biography is as thorough as its subject is disciplined. But in relentlessly defending the superstar, where’s the party?
MADONNA: A Rebel Life, by Mary Gabriel
“I want to be alone,” Greta Garbo’s dancer character famously said in “Grand Hotel,” a quote permanently and only semi-accurately attached to the actress after she retreated from public life. Garbo was first on the list of Golden Agers in one of Madonna’s biggest hits, “Vogue,” but the pop star has long seemed to embody this maxim’s very opposite. She wants to be surrounded, as if with Dolby sound.
Rock ’n’ Soul: The Amazing Story of Sly & the Family Stone
At the age of 80, Sly Stone has finally produced his memoir, and it gives a strong sense of this giant’s voice and sensibility.
‘By Alan Light
THANK YOU (FALETTINME BE MICE ELF AGIN): A Memoir, by Sly Stone with Ben Greenman
It is difficult to convey just how astoundingly unlikely it is that this book exists. Sly Stone is one of pop music’s truest geniuses and greatest mysteries, who essentially disappeared four decades ago in a cloud of drugs and legal problems after recording several albums’ worth of incomparable, visionary songs. Fleeting, baffling, blink-and-you-miss-him appearances at his 1993 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction and a 2006 Grammy tribute only served as reminders that he was still alive and still not well.
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