Author Archives: Andy Manshel

Copland, Wolfe

Union Square Cafe! Oh, the bread!

Carnegie Hall

I’ve deactivated Facebook. The end has arrived. Thank you for hanging in there with me! Keep me posted — especially about birthdays!

Visions of Silence

Carnegie Hall

A woman’s broken relationship with her Pentecostal snake-handling father; revisiting family letters from a victim of the Holocaust. The cast of ‘Taking Up Serpents’ Photo: Scott Suchman 0 Comments By Heidi Waleson Jan. 15, 2019 12:41 p.m. ET Washington Washington National Opera has taken a practical approach to the creation of new work with its …

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at the Met.

Dutch Masters at the Met