Job of the Week: Early closing

Florentina Holzinger’s Stuttgart production of Hindemith’s Sancta Susanna has hit the British tabloids after audience members complained of sickness and fainting at the sight of rollerskating naked nuns and an actor pulling down Jesus Christ’s […]

We have learned belatedly of the death from Alzheimers complications of the cellist Gayle Mae Smith, a pupil of Casals in Puerto Rico and of Piatigorsky in Los Angeles (pictured). She enjoyed an international solo […]

From our roving critic Susan Hall: The Park Avenue Armory and the Asia Society premiered We Shall Gather at the River, a new musical drama created by Peter Sellars using Bach Cantatas and Black spirituals. […]