The NY Times has a soft feature today about its favourite pianist Jeremy Denk choosing a new piano for the Frick. He has a choice of three, all Steinways. America knows no other concert brand. […]
Deirdre Brenner (Photo: Andrej Grilc) From 1922 to 1996 more than 10,000 women and girls were incarcerated in Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries. Operated by four religious orders, these for-profit punitive institutions detained individuals against their will, […]
Barbara Cook Someone who was definitely flesh and blood was the great Barbara Cook. Her creamy effortless lyric soprano led the original casts of many musicals of the 1950s and, when she was no longer […]