Nostalgia isn’t an Ojai virtue, however, and younger composers kept things current. Messiaen’s nature-consciousness found a counterpart in Gabriella Smith’s “Anthozoa,” for violin, cello, piano, and percussion, which evoked the microscopic bustle of coral reefs, with clicks and...
You know what they say: a semiquincentennial happens only once, but great American literature is forever. Whether we can all agree on what makes a novel a great American one is another story (considering we can’t agree on...
One of the things Wittgenstein implies is that we don’t theorize the faces we see. I might talk of “reading” your face, but it isn’t like reading a code or a map: I don’t look at you, add...
By the time Rampa arrived on the decks, a bit before 1 a.m., the crowd was congealing into a congenial blur: serious dancers with their eyes closed, celebratory guys in basketball jerseys, swaying couples, groups of friends interested...
I was not alive for Dylan going electric, but I was alive for the Diwali riddim. I can’t imagine that the sixties felt so monumental. In 2003, it seemed that every other song on the radio was built...
The compressed script and the snippety editing sometimes lead to unintended comedy, as in a scene where Maxine watches Christine, the seamstress, work. While sewing by hand, Christine accidentally pricks a finger with a needle, and Winocour shows...
In rich, melancholy new films from the directors Carla Simón and Mark Jenkin, the restorative power of cinema turns out to be a shore thing.
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Anadol enjoyed an early triumph in 2018, when he lit up the silver sails of the Walt Disney Concert Hall, in Los Angeles, with projections developed using terabytes of recordings, program notes, and archival documents from the L.A....
“There is no good way to say this,” Yiyun Li notes at the opening of her memoir “Things in Nature Merely Grow,” mimicking the words used by a police officer to inform her of the death by suicide...
