About 2,000 music lovers filled the Kravis Center on Tuesday to hear the refined playing of the New York Chamber Soloists Orchestra ― 16 players, all at the top of their game, coming together to make the sweetest sounds. An early Haydn symphony, No. 6 (in D, Hob. I: 6), written in 1761 when the composer was 29 and newly hired by the Esterhazys, began the program. Subtitled Le … [Read more...]
‘Angel’s Game’ a fresh, spellbinding take on genre novel
Carlos Ruiz Zafon, author of the international bestseller The Shadow of the Wind, poses an affront to those serious readers who believe they know what makes for literary quality. What to do with a novelist, clearly motivated by a popular rather than artistic impulse, who nonetheless writes with wit, skill and creative energy? Zafon’s new novel, The Angel’s Game, is the … [Read more...]