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    Nov 1, 2012 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  1. 'A Late Quartet': Familiar music muffled by overfamiliar theatrics ★★ 1/2

    The rarefied world of classical music is the setting and the intimate "perfect square" of a string quartet the crucible for "A Late Quartet," a melodrama of love, lust, betrayal and Beethoven. It's a quiet film of tempestuous but predictable situations and emotions, a soap opera made watchable by its illustrious cast.
    The rarefied world of classical music is the setting and the intimate "perfect square" of a string quartet the crucible for "A Late Quartet," a melodrama of love, lust, betrayal and Beethoven. It's a quiet film of tempestuous but predictable situations...

    Tags: A Late Quartet (movie), Fleetwood Mac (music group), Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener, Music

    2. Oct 24, 2012 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  2. Viewing Bach through lens of history, culture

    Halfway through reading Paul Elie's "Reinventing Bach," I suddenly got dizzy. An earthquake? All-purpose angst? Or could it be that composer Johann Sebastian Bach was working as an agent of transcendence on me, as he did on this sincere author?
    Tribune Newspapers Critic
    Halfway through reading Paul Elie's "Reinventing Bach," I suddenly got dizzy. An earthquake? All-purpose angst? Or could it be that composer Johann Sebastian Bach was working as an agent of transcendence on me, as he did on this sincere author? The basic...

    Tags: Leopold Stokowski, Leonard Bernstein, Johann Sebastian Bach, Culture, Arts and Culture

    3. Sep 30, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  3. Review: 'Reinventing Bach' by Paul Elie casts a wide net

    <strong>Reinventing Bach</strong>
    -------------------- Reinventing Bach Paul Elie Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 498 pp., $30.00 -------------------- Halfway through reading Paul Elie's "Reinventing Bach," I suddenly got dizzy. An earthquake? All-purpose angst? Or could it be that Bach...

    Tags: Leopold Stokowski, Movies, Itzhak Perlman, Arts and Culture, Yo-Yo Ma

    4. Dec 1, 2011 |Story| WGNTV-LTV

  4. Parents protest proposed school closures

    Parents whose children attend one of several Chicago Public Schools slated to close due to low-performance were speaking out Thursday.
    WGN News
    Parents whose children attend one of several Chicago Public Schools slated to close due to low-performance were speaking out Thursday. At Pablo Casals on Chicago’s West Side, where CPS has proposed a turnaround, parents rallied, saying the...

    Tags: Rahm Emanuel, Chicago Mayor, Chicago City Hall, Chicago Public Schools, Bronzeville

    5. Mar 19, 2012 | Los Angeles Times

  5. The 100 cellos of the Piatigorsky International Cello Festival

    Culture Monster
    Christopher Rouse's "Rhapturedux" for 100 cellos, the grand finale of the Piatigorsky International Cello Festival, infused Walt Disney Concert Hall with not only a massed cello sound but the very essence of the cello,...
    6. Jan 17, 2010 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  6. Madrid to Barcelona in a flash

    When President Obama announced plans in April to spend $13 billion in federal stimulus funds on developing high-speed rail in America, he invoked the usual role models -- Japan, China and France -- as examples of fast-train culture.
    When President Obama announced plans in April to spend $13 billion in federal stimulus funds on developing high-speed rail in America, he invoked the usual role models -- Japan, China and France -- as examples of fast-train culture. He also praised...

    Tags: Software, Travel, Computers and Software, Arts and Culture, Computers

    7. Jan 20, 2011 |Story| Herald Mail

  7. Ceremonies mark 50th anniversary of JFK's inauguration

    Fifty years ago Thursday, President John F. Kennedy told the world that &ldquo;the torch had been passed to a new generation of Americans&rdquo; whom he challenged to &ldquo;ask not what your country can do for you &mdash; ask what you can do for your country.&rdquo;
    The Associated Press
    Fifty years ago Thursday, President John F. Kennedy told the world that “the torch had been passed to a new generation of Americans” whom he challenged to “ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your...

    Tags: Richard Dreyfuss, Politics, Government, Entertainment, Peace Corps

    8. May 15, 2011 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  8. PASSINGS: Bernard Greenhouse

    Bernard Greenhouse Cellist, founding member of Beaux Arts Trio Bernard Greenhouse, 95, an acclaimed cellist and founding member of the prominent chamber music group Beaux Arts Trio, died Friday at his Massachusetts home on Cape Cod, his family said. At...

    Tags: Massachusetts, Arts, Los Angeles Times, Arts and Culture, World War II (1939-1945)

    9. Mar 14, 2011 | Los Angeles Times

  9. Album review: New York Dolls' 'Dancing Backward in High Heels'

    Pop & Hiss
    Could there be a more fitting image and cultural icon for New York’s great glam-punk band to invoke than Ginger Rogers? Borrowing the dancer’s famous line about her challenges with partner Fred Astaire for the title to their fifth studio......
    10. Feb 14, 2011 | Los Angeles Times

  10. Jasper Johns is first studio artist in 34 years to receive Presidential Medal of Freedom

    Culture Monster
    Obama to confer 2011 Presidential Medal of Freedom on Tuesday; arts honorees are Yo-Yo Ma and Jasper Johns, the first visual artist to win since 1977....
    11. Jun 4, 2010 |Story| Orlando Sentinel

  11. Port of Call Spotlight: San Juan, Puerto Rico

    The capital of Puerto Rico, the city of San Juan Bautista, is like a big pirate trunk filled to the brim with treasures for cruise passengers. Founded by the legendary explorer Juan Ponce de Leon, who arrived with 300 settlers in 1519 and who served as the first governor of Puerto Rico, San Juan is a classic walled city with centuries of history.
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    The capital of Puerto Rico, the city of San Juan Bautista, is like a big pirate trunk filled to the brim with treasures for cruise passengers. Founded by the legendary explorer Juan Ponce de Leon, who arrived with 300 settlers in 1519 and who served as...

    Tags: Gucci Group NV, Travel, Sculpture, Arts and Culture, Royal Caribbean International

    12. Jan 18, 2009 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  12. Presidential powers don't extend to pop culture.

    We're asking a lot of Barack Obama, just to right the sinking ship of American politics. Can we expect him to save American culture as well? Can a president spin that much gossamer from his oratory? Can the American people make better books, movies and...

    Tags: Documentary (genre), NASA, Frank Sinatra, Thelonious Monk, California

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