Wild Rose MacDowell

By William Bryk, on April 30, 2003
On December 14, 1894 Edward MacDowell performed his Piano Concerto No. 2 in D Minor with the New York Philharmonic under the direction of Anton Seidl. Although it had been first performed in Boston some five years before, the concerto had not previously been performed here. After all, before Read More
April 30th, 2003 | Tags: | Category: Art & Music, Romantic Losers | Comments are closed

The Persistence of Memory

By William Bryk, on March 21, 1999
Salvador Dalí came to New York for the first time in 1934. In a symptom of the Civil War to come, the provincial government of Catalonia had unilaterally declared independence from Spain. The subsequent street fighting terrified him and he would not return to Spain for many years. He was Catalonian Read More
March 21st, 1999 | Tags: | Category: Art & Music, Scoundrels | Comments are closed