Music

“Two Days of Rain”: A Visit to the 2009 St. Lucia Jazz Fest

Local jazz great Ronald “Boo” Hinkson

 
The St. Lucia Jazz Festival is held on one of the Caribbean’s most lush and mountainous islands. This year’s lineup included such talents as Amy Winehouse, Chaka Khan and Patti LaBelle. Journalist Robert Hilferty reports from the tropical paradise.
 
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For the past 18 years of the St. Lucia Jazz Festival, which [...]

Music Around the Clock in the Garden of Evil

Savannah Music Festival makes a big impression
March 26 2009   

Savannah is frequently called the most beautiful city in America — and it is. An historic Southern town draped in mesmerizing Spanish moss, you feel as if you’re drifting inside an Impressionist painting when you wander into one of its many charming squares. 

This corner of Georgia is [...]

Alice Tully Hall Renovation Is A Shining Success

The newly renovated Alice Tully Hall at New York’s Lincoln Center glows. Literally.

The revamped Starr Theater (photo: Iwan Baan)

As part of the $159 million makeover, the architectural firm of Diller Scofidio + Renfro have embedded quiet LEDs beneath the slick, thin skin of reddish-brown Moabi wood which envelopes the cozy interior, now dubbed the Starr [...]