She is a lover of art, a divorcee, a bleeding heart, a sojourner in Rome. He is an Italian, a kindred spirit, a lover of ancient art and aged wine. They fall in love — with each other and with the timeless beauty of the ancient city that brought them together. This is a novel...
“Actors ready?” “Ready,” the students under the stage lights said. “Actors go,” senior Elena Creed replied as she paced the audience rows in Markel Auditorium with the discerning eye of a director. Creed is in her final stretch of directing “An Italian Straw Hat — A Five Act Comedy With Song,” which opens April 25....
PARIS — Giulia Caulfield is reclining at Charlemagne’s feet. She sits at the base of the statue facing Notre-Dame Cathedral, her ears covered by headphones and her neck shielded with a scarf. It’s a chilly March day in Paris, and although she’s done some shopping in the city, she’s still sporting what she wore back...
Practice makes perfect, but Keely Rendle’s talent makes practice short and rewarding. By the time most winners of the annual concerto competition step on stage to solo with the orchestra, they will have prepared their pieces for a full year. A winner of this year’s competition, sophomore Keely Rendle didn’t leaf through the pages of...
Kendrick Lamar beat out a string quartet and a cantata to take the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for music on Monday. That’s an extra $15,000 and another notch in the Compton rapper’s belt for his Grammy-winning album “DAMN.” The Pulitzer Prize website described the rapper’s album as “a virtuosic song collection unified by its vernacular authenticity...