Reading and Roaming
CULTURE NOTES Over its three-week run, the Sarasota Music Festival brings rising young musicians to town and pairs them with faculty from the orchestra and various conservatories for a series of chamber and full orchestra concerts. Friday night’s concert included an exquisite performance of Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring. This is a piece we know very …
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VISITING OLD HAUNTS This week we are returning to the scene of past crimes—no, not crimes—just past lives. Coming to Bethlehem for an event at Lehigh University let us re-explore Bethlehem’s Main Street and its burgeoning dining scene. New restaurants midst old familiar ones (such as Edge, still excellent) and lots of sidewalk seating. On …
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The rainy gray weather of the past week kept us inside, and we focused on seeing newly released films, heavy ones with religion at the core, but also the somewhat frothy Book Club. We took the 6 line from 59th Street station down to Bleecker Street and the Angelika Film Center where we saw three …
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HUMAN BODY SCULPTED Like Life: Sculpture, Color and the Body. This exhibit at Met Breuer of people from about 1300 to the present takes up two floors of the museum. Classical sculpture of human figures was done in marble, almost always white. This exhibit explores examples of white sculpture, but also instances of tinted figures and …
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