John Cage’s 4’33” CD’s by multiple artists aimed at raising funds for good causes are familiar holiday fare but this is something new: a song consisting of silence. Several musicians, some via cell phones, participated in making the John Cage cover song, called 4’33”. According to an article in The Guardian, during the recording, some […]
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Lynn Chang Performs at Nobel Ceremony Honoring Liu Xiaobo
December 9, 2010 at 7:08 pm
Tomorrow, violinist Lynn Chang, a native of Boston, will perform at the Nobel Prize ceremony in Oslo, honoring among others, Chinese writer and human rights activist Liu Xiaobo (left). Liu Xiaobo was a major figure in the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests. In 1997, he was sentenced to 11 years for “incitement to subvert state power.” […]
A Profile
December 8, 2010 at 11:21 am
Per Magnus, a student in the College of Communication, has written a profile of me for one of his classes. I share it with you as it will give you an idea of my background and the circumstances that brought me to the arts. To pick a single high point in Benjamin Juárez’s career in […]
Way of Life Threatened as Free Lance Music Gigs Dry Up in New York
December 6, 2010 at 6:05 pm
The New York Times reports that classical music gigs are evaporating in a city where many musicians spent careers as free lancers. The current recession has shown us that more than ever, it is crucial for students to become proficient in areas other than their artistic fields.
Last Supper at the Armory
December 6, 2010 at 5:35 pm
While in New York later this week, I plan to visit the Last Supper installation by filmmaker Peter Greenaway at the Park Avenue Armory. According to a Wall Street Journal article, “for 16 minutes, a series of cinematic projections and an accompanying original soundtrack will play over a copy of the painting that, through the […]
Philistines at the Gate?
December 3, 2010 at 11:39 pm
A trip to the venerable 92nd Street Y in New York City normally means an evening of serious cultural fare that can range from chamber music concerts to poetry readings. But when renaissance man Steve Martin appeared there for an interview about his new book, An Object of Beauty: A Novel, the audience became restless. […]
CFA Alumna Geena Davis at BU
December 1, 2010 at 3:20 pm
Geena Davis, CFA’79, Hon. ’99, spoke last night at the Friend’s of the Libraries Speaker’s Series sponsored by the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center. Aside from her Oscar-winning success, Davis is a concerned mother of a young daughter (she also has twin boys). She began The Geena Davis Institute On Gender in Media in 2004 […]
Derek Jacobi is Ready To Play Lear
December 1, 2010 at 2:05 pm
An interesting and candid interview with the great actor in The Guardian: Derek Jacobi’s King Lear: ‘I’ve always felt slightly young for the role, but now I’m 72…’
Rave Review for Harold Reddicliffe’s Show
November 30, 2010 at 5:18 pm
From the November 28, 2010, Boston Globe review by Sebastian Smee: Cameras, Clocks, and Microscopes in Uncanny Detail “Harold Reddicliffe is a fascinating artist, and certainly one of the most accomplished I’ve come across in these parts…There’s…an emotional dynamic at work: a comic ebullience beneath the poker-face, an enlivening, adult tension between scientific fastidiousness and […]
