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Opening Arms and Ears to Cuban Music

The Cuban band Septeto Nacional de Ignacio Piñeiro can legitimately claim to be inventors of salsa. But it last played in the United States when Franklin D. Roosevelt was president, and there was no telling when it might be able to return until the ...

From LARRY ROHTER, The New York Times,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Septeto Nacional,  US State Department,  Franklin D. Roosevelt,  Fidel Castro,  George W. Bush

A ‘Prisoner’ With New Questions

Ian McKellen had already read the script of a new version of the late-1960s cult television series “The Prisoner” when he met the author, Bill Gallagher, last year at a London restaurant to discuss the project. As Mr. Gallagher recalls their first ...

From LARRY ROHTER, The New York Times,  10 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Ian McKellen,  AMC,  Patrick McGoohan,  James Bond,  Jim Caviezel

Musicians Who Poked at the Iron Curtain

Guitars, keyboards and drums did not topple the Berlin Wall. But for the young people who helped bring down Communist regimes across Eastern Europe in the fall of 1989, pop music was a profoundly subversive force, inspiration and vital tool of protest ...

From LARRY ROHTER, The New York Times,  9 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Talking Heads (musician),  New York Public Library,  Roman Catholic Church,  Nicolae Ceausescu,  Britney Spears

Claude Lévi-Strauss’s Two-Part Harmonies

Millions of words have been written trying to explain or apply the theories of the French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss since the publication of his work “Structural Anthropology” in 1958. More than a few of the resulting texts in disciplines as ...

From LARRY ROHTER, The New York Times,  7 Nov 2009

Finding New Meaning in a Pageant of Dreams

EARLY in the first act of the new Broadway revival of the 1998 musical based on E. L. Doctorow’s novel “Ragtime,” arriving immigrants troop through an abstract, high-vaulted structure that evokes Ellis Island. So when it came time to arrange a photo ...

From LARRY ROHTER, The New York Times,  5 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Dodge,  E. L. Doctorow,  Neil Simon,  Harry Houdini,  Audra McDonald

An Appraisal: Other Voyages in the Shadow of Lévi-Strauss

His most celebrated work, “Tristes Tropiques,” begins with the words “I hate traveling and explorers.” But what made the anthropologist and philosopher Claude Lévi-Strauss one of the great intellectuals of the 20th century was precisely his eagerness ...

From LARRY ROHTER, The New York Times,  4 Nov 2009

Mixing Oil and Hollywood: Tribeca Festival Expands to the Persian Gulf

On a recent trip to the Persian Gulf state of Qatar, Geoff Gilmore, chief creative officer for Tribeca Enterprises, visited a local luminary to talk up the inaugural Doha Tribeca Film Festival. “This is going to be one of those New York programs, isn’t ...

From LARRY ROHTER, International Herald Tribune,  23 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Robert De Niro,  Bollywood,  Steven Soderbergh,  Michael Moore,  Amanda Palmer

For a Brazilian Choreographer, Dance as an Obstacle Course

In a country where nearly everyone is a dancer, or at least aspires to be one, Deborah Colker still manages to stand out, both for her versatility and her unwillingness to be pigeonholed. Over a career spanning nearly 30 years, this Brazilian ...

From LARRY ROHTER, The New York Times,  21 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Deborah Colker,  Cirque du Soleil

Yoani Sánchez: Virtually Outspoken in Cuba

Yoani Sánchez is a 34-year-old Cuban writer, editor and linguistics scholar who last week became the first blogger to win one of the Maria Moors Cabot Prizes given by Columbia University for journalism that advances inter-American understanding. Her ...

From LARRY ROHTER, The New York Times,  17 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Columbia University,  New York Times Company

American Story With Latin Roots and Beats

In the mid-1990s the documentary filmmakers Elizabeth Deane and Adriana Bosch would sometimes meet in the cafeteria and offices of WGBH in Boston to talk about programs they might make together. Ms. Deane had just finished producing the 10-part “Rock & ...

From LARRY ROHTER, The New York Times,  11 Oct 2009

Related Topics: PBS,  Ritchie Valens,  Freddy Fender,  BBC,  Smokey Robinson

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