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May 28th, 2008 at 10:28 am

The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, led by Wynton Marsalis and comprising 15 of the finest jazz players today, has been the Jazz at Lincoln Center resident orchestra for over 12 years. This remarkably versatile orchestra performs and leads educational events in New York, across the U.S. and around the globe. Watch a video about the demands of playing in the orchestra.

May 27th, 2008 at 1:19 pm

Prolific Hollywood director, producer, and actor Sydney Pollack died Monday at his home in Los Angeles from cancer. He was 73. Thirteen looks back in memoriam….

May 27th, 2008 at 12:08 pm

Florent always was a haven for creative nightowls; the chi-chi uptown crowd may have had Elaine’s and the likes, but the downtown people would get their steak-frites in a much …

May 23rd, 2008 at 10:13 am

In the 1860s, despite increasing westward expansion, many Americans still had not seen images of the frontier. Imagine, then, gazing into Albert Bierstadt’s 84-square-foot oil-on-canvas paean to Manifest Destiny, A Storm in the Rocky Mountains, Mt. Rosalie. It’s at the Brooklyn Museum, and in this video at SundayArts online.

May 23rd, 2008 at 9:43 am

This week’s Reel 13 shorts were all exercises in animation. You voted. Now see which short grabbed the most votes.

May 22nd, 2008 at 10:42 am

This Saturday’s Reel 13 Indie movie (airs at 11:10 p.m. on Saturday, May 24) is a rare opportunity to hear some music that was almost lost to time. While the …

May 22nd, 2008 at 10:40 am

In the opera universe, there’s wacky and weird — and then there’s Stefan Zucker. This living “world’s highest tenor” is so strange as to defy description. Watch this clip to see for yourself.

May 22nd, 2008 at 9:32 am

Living in NYC, the line between public and private space blurs. An exhibit of photographs, called ‘Eminent Domain’ at the NY Public Library, addresses that line, a line crossed regularly by city dwellers turned inadvertent voyeurs. Watch profiles of photographers on SundayArts

May 21st, 2008 at 12:10 pm

William Styron’s fiction grapples with some of the most harrowing events and unresolved moral questions of our time. But Styron’s work about mental illness — specifically, the dark demon of depression — deserves an equal share of praise.

May 21st, 2008 at 12:09 pm

Meet Saeunn Thorsteinsdottir, a cellist currently studying at the Julliard School of Music. Learn about her musical upbringing in Iceland, hear how she discovered her passion for the cello in a place as unlikely as Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and watch her perform “Prelude in E-flat” from J.S. Bach’s A Suite of Dances.



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