I wasn’t nervous. I was worried about the sound and lighting booth people, and the electrical situation. I think the right thing was done, of course. In preparing for the pieces I am writing about Mr.

Trio Da Kali are a Malian power trio of voice, balafon and n’goni, and this is mostly their album. Kronos Quartet set Western chamber music in dialogue with its West African counterpart in ways that ...

Better than: The funniest right-wing parody of what they think liberal Manhattanites do in their spare time. “This is a very odd evening,” Tony Kushner said to great laughter at one point, “and I ...