Tag: interview
Tony Winner Debbie Gravitte Just Wants to Entertain You
"When I am standing on a stage and am fully present and people are gazing back at me with that look of expectation, I absolutely feel like I am the luckiest human on the planet. I get to do what millions of people wish they could do."
Saxophonist Timothy McAllister Trains for His “Triathlon”
"If that's how you hear it, I'm going to I'm going to fight like hell to give it to you.I'll nail it by concert, I promise you."
Celebrating The Full Story of Dance Theatre of Harlem
"We watched those peaks and valleys happening and the reaction from them. And it was never to give up, to lay down and just let go. It was always to fight."
Maria Schneider Doesn’t Play It Safe
"That is the process of writing: getting people to ask questions and to take risks and try things they don't know how to do and dare to have it fail."
Grant Gershon: 20 Years with the Los Angeles Master Chorale
"I don't feel like we're a well-kept secret anymore. We're well kept and we're out in the world much more."
What Would Martha Graham Think?
"It was important for me to not see Martha Graham. I really look for people who have developed their own voices and ask them to take inspiration from Martha Graham's ideas."
Catching Up with The Band’s Visit
"It's about people immediately reaching out and saying how can I help you and how can we connect and how can we get through this together?"
Mezzo-Soprano Elīna Garanča Believes in the Magic of Opera…
"We are there to communicate with emotions. We are there to transport. We are there to support history, the imagination of somebody. And if it all gets just corrected by politics, it loses its purpose."
Jazz Artist Delfeayo Marsalis Wants You On Your Feet
"The rest of the week is going to be pretty jive. But right now I'm not worried about the rest of the week. I'm celebrating right now. That's the message we're trying to get out of here."
Actor Seth Numrich: “We’re All Complicated”
"We don't share everything about ourselves. And of course, we move through the world trying to project an image of ourselves that has some relationship to the totality of who we are and our experience. But it's curated, right?"