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Do you remember when Saturday Night Live was still funny? I had forgotten and no longer bother to watch its endless succession of unfunny ‘celebrity’ hosts and unmusical musical guests. But my friend Adele reminded […]

Italian media are mourning the television presenter and entertainer Pippo Baudo, a screen ficture for 60 years. Pippo, who presented many series of the San Remo music festival, was 89. He was married from 1986 […]

Here is a tour of the newly opened Arts of Oceania galleries in the Michael C. Rockefeller Wing of the Met Museum. Learn the stories behind some of the most exceptional works produced by Oceania’s […]

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The death has been reported of Choo Hoey, founder of the Singapore Symphony Orchestra and an international conductor in Brussels, London, Oslo, Athens and Beijing. He was 90. National Arts Council Singapore writes: We are […]

We have learned of the sad death of Bjørn Kjellemyr, a Norwegian artist who played with such jazz greats as Terje Rypdal, Joe Henderson, Chet Baker, Art Farmer and Pat Metheny. Bjørn, who was 74, […]