Tag Archives: NEW YORK TIMES

Balanchine’s Palm-Fringed Muse

By Victoria Looseleaf “Wow, I really like that headline,” our father said to us after reading our recent New York Times story on the great choreographer George Balanchine’s time spent in L.A. “So do I, but we don’t write the … Continue reading

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Philip Roth: Literary Rock Star

By Victoria Looseleaf It’s no secret that we’re huge Philip Roth fans – no matter he never responded to the only fan letter we’d ever written. So when he recently announced that Nemesis was his last novel (published in 2010), … Continue reading

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Joshua Bell and Jeremy Denk: Brio and Drama In Spades

By Victoria Looseleaf After seven years of performing together, two rock stars of the classical world – Grammy award-winning violinist Joshua Bell and pianist Jeremy Denk – have finally made their first recording together, French Impressions (Sony Masterworks). We’ve seen … Continue reading

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Grief: Remembering September 11, 2001

By Victoria Looseleaf The phone rang at a few minutes before 7 a.m., Los Angeles time.  I was in the shower and hadn’t heard it. As usual, my radio had been tuned to KUSC-FM, which only broadcasts classical music and … Continue reading

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