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maximios December 4, 2022

By Fredric Dannen Long before American Idol, even before the advent of television, home audiences across North America were captivated by a broadcasted singing competition. It was called the Metropolitan …

By Fredric Dannen “There’s a double meaning in that!” exclaims Benedick in Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing, after the sharp-tongued Beatrice disdainfully summons him to dinner. Convinced that Beatrice is …

By Fredric Dannen My previous two columns were devoted to an unpleasant truth about the German playwright Bertolt Brecht, namely that he had cheated his most important collaborator, Elisabeth Hauptmann, …

By Fredric Dannen In my column two weeks ago, I wrote about the German dramatist and poet Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956), one of the giants of modern theater, and raised a …

By Fredric Dannen No one with more than a passing interest in modern theater can overlook the contributions of the German dramatist and poet Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956). In plays such …

By Fredric Dannen In 1965, Leonard Bernstein took a sabbatical from conducting to compose the “Chichester Psalms,” a three-movement choral setting of poems from the “Book of Psalms,” in Hebrew. …