Topic: Philip Glass

Letters to the Editor – Weekly Issue of March 7, 2011

Readers write in about the melodies of modern classical music, conservative art, and the merits of teaching parenting to students.

A thoroughly modern opera: Robots enter a new frontier

Tod Machover's futuristic opera, 'Death and the Powers,' features robots and puts technology in the leading role.

Inspirational physicist Stephen Hawking honored at big-time New York gala

British physicist Stephen Hawking was honored at a gala in New York on Wednesday evening.

Trouble brewing between the Tea Party movement and the GOP?

Members of the Tea Party movement say they are not beholden to the GOP.

2009 National Book Award winners

Summer of dance!

Merce, Mark Morris, Bill T. Jones, and some new faces bust out their moves for the festival circuit.

Robert Wilson's still lives in motion (barely)

Theater legend Robert Wilson's new exhibit at the University of Iowa aims to pioneer a new breed of plasma portraiture.

Schickele gets Bach to P.D.Q.

On his first album in a decade, Professor Peter Schickele (and his alter ego, P.D.Q. Bach) create cadenzas of laughter in classical music.

With 'Cassandra's Dream' Woody Allen once again gets away with murder

'Cassandra's Dream,' starring Ewan McGregor and Colin Farrell, explores the seamy underside of upper-class British culture. But what we're left with is more ordinary than horrifying.