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How Philip Glass turns the circus into opera thats magical and profound Mark Swed © (Mats Backer) Acrobats perform under the big top set up on the Malmo Opera stage for "Circus Days and Nights." (Mats Backer) A drum beats. An accordion joins in, like the music of a clown. A trombone further adds a circusy effect. A bearded lady, aerial acrobat, juggler, lion tamer and trapeze artist all materialize under the big top. “Circus Days and Nights,” Philip Glass’ latest opera,...

Glass’s new circus-set music-theatre work, based on the writings of poet Robert Lax, is sensationally staged but the music remains earthbound

Exaudi. This lunchtime recital, entitled Chromatic Renaissance, intersperses 16th and 17th-century works with a selection of madrigals from contemporary composer James Weeks’s Primo Libro. The program opens with four of Orlande de Lassus’s Sibylline Prophecies 2 pm ET: Hamburg International Music Festival presents Insula Orchestra & Laurence Equilbey. Laurence Equilbey conducts Insula Orchestra and Accentus Choir in an all-Schumann program comprising Vom Pagen und der Königstochter O...

/ Since 1999, Sean Scully’s Landline paintings have led a transition from what John Caldwell called ‘the asceticism of his earlier black paintings’ towards the ’emotion, space, colour and physicality’ [i] of a more expressive style that has traced the world’s contours. As Scully says, ‘I change, of course, and hopefully expand’. In the Landline series, Scully seeks to paint his ‘sense of the elemental coming-together of land and sea, sky and land … the way the blocks ...

Original Ghost Compendium, Andrew Bick (hbck, Hanej Cantz/Haus Konstruktiv) This is a long overdue and very welcome monograph about the London-based artist Andrew Bick, who is represented by Hales Gallery, London but is a major presence at Gallerie Von Bartha in Basel. This book is published on the back of an important solo exhibition at Museum Haus Konstruktiv in Zurich back in 2017, and also includes reproductions of and discussion about work exhibited in subsequent exhibitions at Von Bartha ...

“Patmos has been in my mind since I was a little kid,” says Kevin Brine. One of his family friends was Time art critic Alexander Eliot, a passionate Hellenophile who had worked with Brine’s mother, Ruth Brine, the magazine’s first and, for many years, only female senior editor. Another Time colleague had been Robert Lax, who went on to become an acclaimed poet and settled on the island in the early 1960s and whose niece happened to be a friend of Brine’s. So some 20 years ago, when ...