The can-can is a combination of high spirited dancing – sort of a gallop – and a peek at frilly underwear. It’s sexy, cheeky and provocative. At least that’s what I am told. The dancers step and kick, letting their ruffled bloomers all hang out. There are tales about a trick that dancers used to […]
There’s something about choral music that strikes a chord. Yes, the TV show “Glee” has made it popular, but beyond that, Broadway actress LaChanze says it teaches kids how to listen. LaChanze (pictured above) won a Tony Award in 2006 for her lead role in The Color Purple and has appeared in The Wiz, Dessa […]
On a Sunday afternoon, in between intermittent rain, I set out for Merestead Estate in Mount Kisco. It was the culminating event for Cultivate, the Copland House residency program for young composers. For the uninitiated, American composer Aaron Copland lived and wrote music here in Westchester, specifically in Cortland Manor where he spent the last thirty […]
It’s not so easy to find a barbershop in Westchester, let alone a $10 haircut or a barbershop quartet. Back in the old days, men would hang out at barbershops waiting their turn for a hot towel and a shave with a straight edge razor. Mainly of African American roots, barbershoppers would harmonize away the minutes […]
My guest blogger this week is Lynn Honeysett, Director of the Pelham Arts Center Venus is now passing in front of the sun – that once-in-a-century dot of a shadow traversing across our giant ball of life-giving light. As if responding to a universal prompting, six contemporary artists currently exhibiting at Pelham Art Center’s Light […]
The eyes of the world seem to be on Chongqing, where politics, corruption and art exist side by side. It was the municipality governed until recently by Bo Xilai, a prominent Chinese party official who was high up in the succession chain before his wealth and political ties became a notorious issue in the Chinese […]
“People who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.” It’s an old adage that probably predates The Glass House designed by Philip Johnson and built in New Canaan, CT in 1945, right after the war when sensibilities were raw. Johnson, known by some to be an “enfant terrible” was a great architect, bon vivant, art […]
Whatever happened to Ichabod Crane, the poor soul? I often wonder about his mysterious disappearance so I paid a visit to my colleagues, Waddell Stillman and Peter Pockriss, at Historic Hudson Valley (HHV). They have moved their offices to a brand new brick Georgian style building in Sleepy Hollow country, right across the street from […]
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