Digital photography, which invites manipulation by its very nature, has finally let everyone in on the secret: photographs have always been more an "artifice than a true recital of the outside world".
Re: ["The Juilliard Effect: Ten Years Later," Dec. 12.] Music conservatories are increasingly leaving many bright and talented people woefully unprepared for the world outside the recital hall.
After a fifty-minute subway ride and a forty-minute bus ride, she stood in line outside the recital hall for a few hours with more than a hundred other children, all of them escorted by parents or guardians.
For his current recital tour Mr. Jaroussky is venturing outside typical countertenor territory and exploring French mélodie, which made up the program for his New York recital debut at Weill Recital Hall on Thursday.
Certainly concerts had ventured outside of the museum's designated recital hall before Ms. Tomer's arrival in 2011, especially during Christmas season.
Bishop was driven to the house by a schoolfriend, who was then ordered to wait outside in the car until the recital was over.
The PAC "is known for its excellent acoustics", and hosts student productions and outside artistic groups, including the Beck Institute for the Arts, which stages musical recitals there.
A piano recital that features a piece with no notes, only the pianist scraping the outside of the instrument to produce sounds like distant gunfire, seems the height of avant-garde intellectualism.
Barely 18 months since the Kansas mezzo's UK stage debut, in the Royal Opera's Barber of Seville, this recital was so oversubscribed it was virtually impossible for anyone outside the Wigmore's rarefied Friends group to get a ticket.
The fact that the august Austrian pianist, now in his late seventies, is on a yearlong farewell tour — this was his last New York recital, with a final American appearance to follow at Strathmore, outside of Washington, D.C., on March 17 — might have led one to search out some sadness or brokenness in those silences.
