When I started working at the Chicago Symphony, managing the various details of its record label CSO Resound, one of the most appealing aspects of it was that there would eventually be an album with Pierre Boulez. He’d already made many outstanding recordings with the orchestra for Deutsche Grammophon – a detailed survey of Bartok’s [...]
New files were made publicly available yesterday from the Nixon Presidential Materials by the Nixon Library and Museum in Yorba Linda, California. If there aren’t any smoking guns, or crass examples of Nixon behaving badly, there are documents that can help fill in some gaps, and connect some dots. For one, there are several memos [...]
Let’s give a warm welcome to Seated Ovation, a Chicago blog by “Billy” who’s already writing analyses of Chicago’s classical community worth one’s reading.
In Louis Menand’s New Yorker article (in the January 11 issue, and not available online) about the life and reception of Andy Warhol, there’s this intriguing fact: “[Tony] Scherman and [David] Dalton report that a profile of Warhol, by David Bourdon, had been scheduled for the cover of Life, but that after [Robert] Kennedy’s death [...]