Music by Giacomo Puccini Metropolitan Opera New York, NY There was so much negative press about this new production, I feared the worst. In the end, I was pleasantly surprised. The big complaint, from what I read, was that the sets were too spare and the staging was too restrained. I did not have that […]
Peter Serkin
Pianist Longy School of Music Ut, re mi, fas sol, la John Bull Six Epigraphes Antiques Claude Debussy Suite in C minor for Lute cembalo, BMV 997 J.S. Bach Variations and Fugue in B-flat on a Theme by Handel, Opus 24 Johannes Brahms The first time I saw Peter Serkin was in about 1973 in […]
Duplicity
Starring Julia Roberts, Clive Owen It is a pleasure to see Julia back on the silver screen after some absence, with the adjustment of handsome maturity advancing on glittering allure. There is something formulaic about the script, but it still has its own kind of corporate whodunit entertainment value. The overly intended chemistry between the […]
Rachel Getting Married
Directed by: Jonathan Demme Starring: Anne Hathaway, Bill Irwin, Debra Winger, Anna Deavere Smith It strikes me that Jonathan Demme wanted to make a concert-party movie and threw in some drama to give it a little shape. I found the combination elusive, even though I enjoyed some of the performances. The principal actor – Anne […]