You’re alone in your room and hear music.You’re sitting in a room with other people and hear this same music….
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We love to put people in boxes. She’s progressive, he’s conservative. This music is twelve-tone, that music is minimalist. But…
The Austro-Hungarian empire may have died long ago but its musical products are still alive and kicking. Vide the San…
Good opera singers come and go but great ones are rare, and the Met remembered one of its best by…
President Trump proudly extolled the virtues of western civilization in a speech he gave in Warsaw, Poland, in 2017, but…
What do we expect when we go to hear a pianist play a famous dead composer’s work? Do we want…
Virgil Thomson used to say that the French played Brahms better than the Germans, and maybe the Austrians play Americans…
The first time I saw Lebanese-French pianist-composer Rami Khalife and Syrian clarinetist-composer Kinan Azmeh play together was in 2006 at…
It’s never good to live in the past, but sometimes we have to, even though as our latest catch phrase…
An out of town visitor always excites interest, even envy, and Philharmonia’s music director and Finnish-born conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen’s return…
Life is complicated. More than one thing is going on whether we like it or not. This could be a…
Fady Elsayed and James Lloyd play two brothers in Sally El Hosaini’s debut feature My Brother The Devil Written and…
The Arab Film Festival’s opening night film, “The Man Without a Cell Phone” The 2012 Arab Film Festival San Francisco….
12 Films From The Arab Film Festival 13-23 October 2012San Francisco. San Jose. Berkeley. Los Angeleswww.arabfilmfestival.org Who would have thought…