Philip Glass

Baltimore Symphony prepares for West Coast tour

2012-03-26 06:15:00

The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra will be jetting to the West Coast this week for a six-day, three-city tour — its first extended outing since Marin Alsop was named music director five years ago. The tour, which begins Wednesday, opens with a...

Clef Notes: BSO takes nature walk with Beethoven, Frans Lanting, Philip Glass

2012-01-29 07:42:00

Cockeysville students' art complement Meyerhoff show

2012-02-05 11:11:00

Twelve students from Cockeysville Middle School are having their artwork displayed at Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall. The exhibition coincides with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra's February concert series, which includes a multimedia performance of...

Madeleine Peyroux: 'Growing toward the sun'

2011-09-27 07:13:00

With a timbre suggestive of Billie Holiday and an intimate style of phrasing that needs only the subtlest twist of a syllable to hook a listener, Madeleine Peyroux has cleared a distinctive path in today's jazz world. That path does not include a lot...

Icons and minimalists

2011-10-06 00:00:00

Engaging, museum-level work fills two venues in Baltimore. Maryland Art Place has assembled a remarkable survey of minimalist painters from different areas and generations, while C. Grimaldis Gallery is offering a collection of pieces by five...

A who's who of Maryland (abridged)

2003-10-01 09:03:38

While you may be coming to Maryland to earn your fame and fortune, the majority of the Free State natives listed below took their talents elsewhere. The exceptions are marked with asterisks. Actors/actresses Bess Armstrong, John Astin, John Wilkes Booth,...

Baltimore rocks (... and raps ... and scats)

2003-10-03 11:45:47

Did you know Tori Amos received a citation from the Mayor of Baltimore for a song about the 1980 Orioles? Or, that before Tupac Shakur was "West Coast," he was "East Coast" and a student at the Baltimore School of the Arts? Baltimore has been home to a...

Finding Jiro: A documentary about the man considered to be the world's greatest sushi chef

2012-05-07 11:18:00

Jiro Dreams of Sushi Tuesday May 15, The Bijou Theatre, 275 Fairfield Ave., Bridgeport, (203) 332-3228, thebijoutheatre.com � Conventional service-industry wisdom has it that restaurants should always strive to make their guests feel relaxed and...

Authors H-L

2012-04-24 08:49:00

Jane Hamilton Jane Hamilton, who grew up in Oak Park, won the PEN/Hemingway Foundation Award for best first novel with "The Book of Ruth." Her second novel, "A Map of the World," became a national bestseller. She has written six novels....

Conductor Nelson discusses Bach's controversial 'St. John Passion'

2012-04-03 22:01:00

Of the two surviving settings of the Passion text by J.S. Bach, the "St. John Passion" is the most controversial. Many people to this day are unable to listen to the piece, much less perform it, because of its repeated references to "the Jews" clamoring...

Local Q&A: Willis Earl Beal

2012-04-02 16:25:00

Willis Earl Beal has a biography that sounds as if Charles Bukowski could have penned it. Beal's lived, at times, a harsh life, drifting between countless miserable part-time jobs, the military (he enrolled in the Army for a short time) and homelessness....

Mikhail Baryshnikov, good soldier as a general

2012-04-08 00:00:00

NEW YORK — Try following Mikhail Baryshnikov up a flight of stairs sometime. He doesn't run or even leap. He glides, as if he is as at home in the air as he is on the ground. It's like trailing a 12-year-old boy. Or an impala. Baryshnikov knows...

Philip Glass: halftime's too short.

2011-10-04 08:12:47

Lucinda Childs' current troupe, Swed writes, "dances against the images of predecessors who thus seem outside of time and space, occupying a fourth dimension."

2011-05-08 15:44:25

"Dance," which besides Philip Glass' music also features Sol LeWitt's ghostly film of dancers on a grid, is "geometry in action," writes The Times' Mark Swed.

2011-05-08 15:43:51