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Next Live Show: Vishaan Chakrabarti

This architect is particularly adept at reconceiving existing buildings, among them the Domino Sugar Refinery and Penn Station, although in some circles his plan for the latter is diminished by not relocating James Dolan. To Neptune. And by “some circles,” I mean me—bitter, resentful me.  Music: Mamie Minch. (not bitter, not resentful) Thursday, November 14, 6:00 … Continue reading »

Music

507: Peter Oundjian

This conductor, the music director of the Colorado Music Festival, loved his boyhood summers in Spain. “It was a beautiful place to practice undisturbed and a fantastic place to play soccer, because soccer was my great love, violin and soccer. And then we discovered water skiing.” Mozart, same way: violin, soccer, water skiing. The making … Continue reading »

Music

501: Terre Roche

This singer-songwriter has been admired for fifty years, and yet: “I always wanted a Collings guitar, but it was too expensive, and I just didn’t feel worthy.” If she’s not worthy of the tools of her trade, then what hope is there for us mortals? (Happily, she now has a Collings.) Presented with Richard Barone. Continue reading »

Music

500: Peter Boyer

Composers not only create something non-corporeal but also enjoy bringing an actual object into the world. “One of my great great moments was when I finally had a recording of my own in a bin at Tower Records.” (Older people can explain to younger people what record stores were.) The delights of the irrefutably physical. Presented with BMI … Continue reading »

Theater

499: Ty Jones

He is the producing artistic director of the Classical Theatre of Harlem, focusing on work from Sophocles to Shakespeare—the big S playwrights—to explore fundamental ideas. “These are living arguments, these classic plays.” Produced with CTH. This is our last new episode of the season. We’re in reruns through August. Remember: they’re all new if you haven’t heard … Continue reading »

Theater

497: Patrick Page

Even as a child, this actor loved Shakespeare. “I would listen every night to John Gielgud’s Ages Of Man or Laurence Olivier’s Henry V or Richard III. I was just sort of marinated in it.” He’s since played many of the great villains, from Iago to the Grinch—Shakespeare and Shakespearean. Produced with Red Bull Theater. Continue reading »