When Leonard Bernstein's Mass had its world premiere in 1971, the world was, to put in bluntly, a mess. The war in Southeast Asia was still going strong, political assassinations had shocked the world, popular culture was shifting radically and civil rights were becoming more and more important. In other words, it was a time not unlike our own.
Critics didn't...
When I reach Meow Meow on the phone to talk about her upcoming shows in Los Angeles and Palm Springs, she is jet-lagged. She has just arrived in San Francisco from Sydney. So when she picked up the phone at the appointed time for the interview, she thought I might have been selling something. When I remind her of...
