JEPSON CENTER ‘SHOULD BE A POWERFUL DRAW’
Diane Lesko discusses building lessons and acquiring world-class art
Before Diane Lesko arrived, in 1995, as director of the Telfair Museum of Art, there was already talk about expanding the South’s oldest museum.
Its collection was growing, storage was shrinking and educational abilities were increasingly limited. It was clear to many [...]
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Telfair Museum: Q&A with then-director Diane Lesko
Posted in Interviews, Telfair Museum of Art on March 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Music Profile: 14-year-old singer Morgan Grotheer
Posted in Feature, Interviews on March 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
MORGAN’S TOWN
A talented young woman targets Nashville, but shoots for conditional stardom
Oh my God, it’s big,” Morgan Grotheer says. “Mom, my stomach hurts real bad.”
They are staring at the stage of the Wildhorse Saloon, one of the largest in Nashville, Tenn. Trace Adkins, Ronnie Milsap, Sugarland and Lonestar are some of the top country acts [...]
Interview: Showbread, punks for Christ’s sake
Posted in Interviews on March 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
GOSPEL ACCORDING TO PUNKS
HOMETOWN “RAW ROCK” KILLERS STRENGTHEN FAITH, CLIMB LADDER TO STARDOM
Jesus was a punk. Well, sort of.
Punk, according to Matt Davis, has more to do with fashion these days than anything patently subversive. But it used to have the power to question authority, to shock established mores, to undermine the status quo.
It’s this [...]
Interview: Herbie Hancock
Posted in Interviews on March 1, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The shape of things to come
Legendary keyboardist Herbie Hancock talks about why he still believes in jazz
After nearly 40 years of composing, performing and recording masterpieces of the American music canon, jazz keyboardist Herbie Hancock is unquestionably a singular icon, a living legend.
Hancock was a pianist for five years in one of the great [...]
Interview: Aspera
Posted in Interviews on March 1, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Aspera
When you first talk to Aspera, you think they’re high. Really high. High as Dr. John was the day he wrote “I Walk on Guilded Splinters.”
But after a few minutes, you find they’re actually sober. What’s more, they’re extremely intelligent. It’s just that their manner of speaking is metered, contemplative and breezy — especially [...]
Feature: John Mellencamp
Posted in Interviews on March 1, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
John Mellencamp enlists young Savannahians for ‘Our Country’
Tybee’s newest celebrity resident enrolls local kids and a wedding party in making of new music video.
Michael Jenkins, 9, normally doesn’t like to dance.
But that didn’t stop him and 10 other boys from participating in two music-video shoots for a new song by singer-songwriter John Mellencamp.
Mellencamp, who owns [...]
Interview: Joe Lovano
Posted in Interviews on March 1, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
White lion
Joe Lovano still doesn’t wear Armani
Race was the issue du jour of the 1990s jazz world. This is thanks to trumpeter Wynton Marsalis, the musical director of the Lincoln Centre Jazz Orchestra, the most influential jazz ensemble in the country.
Marsalis’ neo- conservative style, his spearheading of the “Young Lions” movement and his promotion of [...]
Interview: Billy Collins
Posted in Interviews on March 1, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Poetry can be more than an ‘act of literature’
For Billy Collins, poetry is about connecting.
It’s not about writing epic verse or channeling the song of the great muses. You won’t find in his work references to arcane Jacobean playwrights, Frazer’s “Golden Bough” or footnotes citing, in Italian, Dante’s “Inferno.”
You know, like T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste [...]
Interview: Kenneth Koch (1925-2002)
Posted in Interviews on March 1, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
An Interview with Kenneth Koch
The poet gives a reading at UC and the Main Public Library
Kenneth Koch feels lucky he can write a lot of poetry. And write a lot, he does. After 21 volumes of poetry, three works of fiction, nine books of non-fiction, 21 avant-garde plays and parodies, and countless articles for [...]
Interview: Q&A with “Consumed” columnist Rob Walker
Posted in Interviews on January 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
‘Pointless, sporadic and free’
Rob Walker’s book, published pre-Katrina, sheds new light on the Big Easy.
In 2000, Rob Walker, the “Consumed” columnist for New York Times Magazine, moved to New Orleans, and for the next three years wrote a series of vignettes, intended for subscribers to his Web site, that would eventually become “Letters from [...]
