WHAT'S COOKING?
posted to Cue Sheet by James Reel
Courtesy of Sound and Fury’s AC Douglas, here’s a recipe I’m sure many of my musician friends would love to try, although they might choke on the result: How to Cook a Conductor.
Courtesy of Sound and Fury’s AC Douglas, here’s a recipe I’m sure many of my musician friends would love to try, although they might choke on the result: How to Cook a Conductor.
Classical music may be better for the environment than rock’n’roll. So posits Greg Sandow. I’m willing to believe it, whether it’s true or not.
Well, not exactly fishing. I’m scrambling to finish up several writing assignments before departing Friday morning for a weekend of snorkeling, sea kayaking and cycling in La Jolla. Fine dining, too … mustn’t forget that. No doubt I’ll be writing some stray article in the car on the way to California (yes, during the shift my wife will be driving) and e-mailing it to the editor from the hotel. Free wi-fi is a wonderful thing. Back on duty Monday.
My contribution to the latest Tucson Weekly:
Live Theatre Workshop has mounted a funny, well-acted and well-directed production of a play that really should be kept in mothballs for another 25 years.Read the full review here.
George Axelrod's The Seven Year Itch is not only missing a hyphen; it's lost any relevance to the way real men and women relate to each other. The 1950s play--about a man, married for seven years, contemplating a dalliance with a sexy young neighbor--trades on antiquated gender stereotypes. Give it another quarter-century, and The Seven Year Itch could be enjoyed as an amusing period piece, as English Restoration comedies are today. But right now, we lack that distance. We're in an in-between period, when the play has lost its currency but isn't quite a classic. For now, it just seems old-fashioned.
On Friday I interviewed Simone Dinnerstein, a pianist who's getting more and more attention these days, first through her excellent recordings with cellist Zuill Bailey, and now through her very individual and fascinating recording of Bach's Goldberg Variations. Being a radio guy, I first asked her how to pronounce her name, and it's even more complicated than I thought. She pronounces her first name in three syllables, with a little schwa on the end, and the end of her last name sounds like steen. Now you know.
If you've been reading press reports about the Tucson Pima Arts Council's Pima Cultural Plan and would like to dig into it and see what it really says, here's the draft report. I haven't read it all yet, myself. What I have perused makes some good points, but I wonder how many people will buy its advocacy for a new bureaucratic infrastructure to boost local arts support.
