The music of Frédéric Chopin remains unique in music history in that most of what the Polish composer wrote is in the active repertory. Chopin is critical to the repertoire of pianists everywhere, and next month, Rachel Naomi Kudo, a 28-year-old American pianist from the Chicago suburbs, heads to Warsaw to take part in the 17th International Chopin Competition, having won a … [Read more...]
Mamet’s gritty ‘Glengarry’ impresses at Maltz
The real estate world of David Mamet’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Glengarry Glen Ross is a cutthroat, dog-eat-dog business, where the salesmen are pitted against each other to see who will win a Cadillac and who will lose his job. It is Mamet’s jaundiced view of the American way of commerce, an all-male landscape brimming with testosterone and casual profanity. As seen at the … [Read more...]