Lennox Theatre, February 29 8/10 Luka Lesson takes us From Plato’s Symposium in 416 BC to riots on the streets of Athens today. He leads us through the seven categories of platonic love, ending with Agapi, the universal, most selfless form, and Martin Luther King’s typically lyrical and sagacious take:…
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Hayes Theatre, February 28 7/10 Paul Anka bought the rights to the song that became My Way for $1, rewriting the lyrics for Frank Sinatra, whose signature it became. What a shame Anka was unaware of the person for whom the words were perfect: Carlotta. From starring in Kings Cross’…
The name was a statement of intent. Eighteen years ago four young Brooklynites named their string quartet Brooklyn Rider, nodding to the eclecticism of Wassily Kandinsky’s pre-World War I Blue Rider artistic movement. Since then they’ve not only given exceptional performances from the 300-year-old quartet repertoire, but they’ve commissioned many…