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Oct 30 2009
No pianist invites debate like Jeremy Denk. And in the genteel-to-a-fault classical music world, his playing is a much-needed stimulant to audiences who too often hear "me too" interpretations. But his path isn't easy for anybody.

Oct 29 2009
Berg is a composer and lyricist who created the music for the off-Broadway musical “The Prince
and the Pauper.” He is currently composing music for new Broadway shows such as “The Twelve,” “Grumpy Old Men: The Musical,” “Fiona: The Mother Goose Musical,” “Tim and Scrooge: A Carol for a Later Christmas” and “Heidi.”

Oct 29 2009
The cartoonist Robert Crumb has drawn countless images of himself or his alter egos since his work first appeared in the mid-1960s, but recent glimpses of the reclusive artist are rare.

Oct 28 2009
Men en pointe fully dressed as ballerinas may seem funny, but really, if that were their only joke, the company would not last three minutes. In five pieces artistic director Tory Dobrin brought us pure slapstick humour, witty parodies of famous ballets and some great serious dancing.

Oct 27 2009
Gustavo Ramirez Sansano, 31, is bringing his unmistakable hipness and grace back to Chicago, where he’s been named artistic director of Luna Negra Dance Theater, filling the capable shoes of founder Eduardo Vilaro, who went to lead Ballet Hispanico in NYC.

Oct 19 2009
When I first heard that R. Crumb had illustrated the Book of Genesis, I thought: "Oh. This oughta be good.

Oct 19 2009
"It was hard to draw God," the reclusive cartoonist says about his latest project, which begins at the Beginning, with Creation itself.

Oct 19 2009
Genesis doesn't need an R. Crumb to provide perversity and failure. It's got enough all by itself. This is one reason that Crumb could play it straight with his art, no cloacal Snoid comedy, no gratuitous sex.

Oct 06 2009
Often, when world-renowned artists team up to form a “super group” the result is somehow less than the sum of its parts. This was happily not the case with Sunday evening’s concert at University of Richmond’s Modlin Center for the Arts.

Oct 06 2009
A banjo and a double bass walk into a bar. The bartender says, "What is this, some kind of bad joke?"

Sep 30 2009
The most intriguing of this season is the trio of Béla Fleck, Edgar Meyer and Zakir Hussain, three pre-eminent virtuosos from very different musical worlds.

Sep 30 2009
Subversive US cartoonist Robert Crumb, whose take on the Bible is about to be released worldwide, says people are "totally nuts" for taking the book so seriously for so long.

Sep 30 2009
Last night in the Concert Hall of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, baritone Thomas Hampson offered one of the most interesting preview events I have ever attended.

Sep 25 2009
Canadian pianist Angela Hewitt opened the 60th season of the Cleveland Chamber Music Society with a recital of works by Bach, Mendelssohn, Schumann and Beethoven.

Sep 17 2009
Launching its sixth season in residence at the University of Richmond, the contemporary music sextet eighth blackbird offered a sampler of six pieces.

Sep 14 2009
Crumb was a founder of the underground comix movement and is regarded as its most prominent figure. Though one of the most celebrated of comic book artists, Crumb's entire career has unfolded outside the mainstream comic book publishing industry.

Sep 14 2009
No wonder banjo player extraordinaire Bela Fleck has more Grammy category nominations than anyone else.

Sep 11 2009
Harvey Pekar and R. Crumb became friends through their mutual love of jazz. They're also two big names in the underground comics world: Crumb as an illustrator, Pekar as a writer.

Sep 10 2009
The Modlin Center for the Arts is hosting the comedy troupe The Second City — a performance group that boasts such famous alumni as Stephen Colbert, Mike Myers, Chris Farley, Steve Carrell and Tina Fey — on Friday and Saturday.

Sep 10 2009
First-year students recount their experiences with The Actors' Gang artistic director, Tim Robbins.

Sep 03 2009
The three musicians Bela Fleck, Edgar Meyer, and Zakir Hussain started working together in 2005, when Fleck and Meyer were commissioned to write a concerto.  They then decided that their dream would be to collaborate with Zakir Hussain.  That dream was realized with the "Triple Concerto: The Melody of Rhythm."

Sep 03 2009
The Actors’ Gang is coming back to the Modlin Center for the Arts next week for a production of The Trial of the Catonsville Nine, with artistic director Tim Robbins in tow (yes! Tim Robbins!).

Sep 03 2009
The Collegian's exclusive interview with The Actors' Gang artistic director, Tim Robbins

Sep 01 2009
The Book of Genesis Illustrated is far more ambitious than Crumb’s previous adaptations, which tended to be only a few pages long. This time, he has tackled a sizable text, all fifty chapters of Genesis.

Aug 31 2009
"People of faith and conscience, will want to see thought-provoking play and consider its call to non-violent action. For students of history and politics, it's a slice of history that shows us where we've been and how we got here."

Aug 30 2009
If classical music is dying, as we’ve been hearing for years, why are so many rock clubs suddenly presenting it? And why are so many people, with the young outnumbering the old, coming to hear it?

Aug 26 2009
Academy Award-winning actor, director and writer Tim Robbins is involved in a new production of Father Daniel Berrigan’s acclaimed play The Trial of the Catonsville Nine. Democracy Now! speaks to Robbins about the play, which is being staged by his Los Angeles troupe, the Actors’ Gang.

Jul 01 2009
As the 22-year-old pianist makes her London debut, she tells BBC Music Magazine why she loves Ligeti, Horowitz and Bernstein.

Jun 15 2009
University of Richmond ensemble-in-residence, eighth blackbird recently served as the music director for the Ojai Music Festival. The festival's artistic director, Thomas W. Morris chose the group in 2006, after as he described being, "completely knocked out by them -- by their calm virtuosity, their incredible showmanship, I was really bowled over. I'd been thinking about future music directors and doing different things. I want to build a 'next generation' around Ojai."