Welcome to the last weekend in July and to New In Music This Week: July 25th. This week I have a diverse line-up of recordings to choose from. They all have something unique to offer.
My top pick for New In Music This...
This week's Best Bets: July 21st - July 27th contain a few firsts: a first-time visit by a centuries old orchestra; a legendary soprano makes her directorial debut and a novel considered to be one of the best crime...
LA Philharmonic's Seoul Festival and The Tony Awards bookend this week's Best Bets
Stephanie J. Block and Adrian Dunbar star in "Kiss Me, Kate" on Great Performances
If she hadn't found theater, Lucie Arnaz wasn't sure what she'd do with her life.
"I don't know anything else but this business in my life. That's how I make my living and it's very important to me to do what I do and do it well."
The Male Marlene Dietrich has a lot to say
"I always loved performing: a little theater, my backyard. I picked my high school because it had a theater arts department that was great."
"Happiness is a skill that you develop and also something that you can't be all the time."
"I just melt into this anthemic sort of otherness that just sort of exists. And maybe otherness is really the word for it."