"The job of a composer is a lot more complicated than only writing music."
Mahler, Shucked, Lovano and More
"Those three words are primal. Those three words have everything to do with the conflicting desires of when you're ready, when you're not ready."
Anna Thorvaldsdottir, The Crossing, Rickie Lee Jones and Taj Mahal tops this week's list.
"What I like in music is where something magical happens and where there is soul and a life behind that's never going to be predictable."
"We are all people that are imprisoned in this novel of fiction that we write in our heads every day of our lives."
Two operas, two plays, one jazz concert - all former best bets you have another chance to see
"New releases in the areas of broadway musicals, cabaret, classical music, jazz and opera."
"Everybody in the audience can identify with...the need to be loved, accepted, to be successful, to be safe, to be appreciated for who you are."
"I'm so influenced by the pain that I have felt in life. The moments where I had no other choice but to live creatively."