In 1981, a 21-year-old Tony Goldwyn met a 23-year-old Tony Spiridakis at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in Massachusetts, where the aspiring actors developed a fast friendship that has seen them take on the role of best man at each other’s weddings and godfather to each other’s children. Forty-two years later, Goldwyn and Spiridakis have reunited…
In that work, listeners were offered short, droning chords, as well as polyphonic ensemble passages of whipsawing extended technique. But players within the quintet also diverged to present deliriously contrasting material: At one such juncture, while two parts held down a static pattern with a parched, brittle approach to sound production, the violinist Christopher Otto…
An 11-year-old Chicago girl was physically and verbally attacked by two women from her Lawndale neighborhood. In addition to hitting the girl with a bottle and punching her in her face, the child alleges they also hurled racial slurs her way. The incident is being investigated by the Chicago Police Department, but the two adults…
Britain has signalled it is preparing to delay some of its net-zero policies to ease the financial burden on households, with one senior minister saying that “bankrupting the British people” would not save the planet. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will later on Wednesday set out what he called a more “proportionate” approach to hitting net-zero…
Some House Republicans are rejecting Donald Trump’s criticism of a plan the group developed to avoid a government shutdown that now appears to be at risk of failure. The former president took to social media Wednesday night shortly after news broke of the strategy, calling on Republicans to prioritize defunding the Biden administration’ “weaponized government”…