Laura Collins-Hughes: January 2012 Archives

This week's links to NAJP members' work:

Martin Bernheimer on Thomas Hampson and "Song of America" (Financial Times)
Martin Bernheimer on "Götterdämmerung" at the Met (Financial Times)
Laura Bleiberg reviews La La La Human Steps and "New Work" (Los Angeles Times)
Robert Christgau on Bhi Bhiman and "Bhiman" (NPR)
Michael Feingold reviews "The Road to Mecca" (The Village Voice)
Michael Feingold reviews Kevin Spacey in "Richard III" (The Village Voice)
Christopher Hawthorne on Peter Zellner's Matthew Marks Gallery (Los Angeles Times)
John Horn on "Hugo" and the other Oscar contenders (Los Angeles Times)
Ann Hornaday on Liam Neeson in "The Grey" (The Washington Post)
Ann Hornaday on Glenn Close in "Albert Nobbs" (The Washington Post)
Lawrence B. Johnson on Lyric Opera of Chicago's "Aida" (ChicagoOntheAisle.com)
Lawrence B. Johnson on Muti's "Carmina Burana" (ChicagoOntheAisle.com)
Michael Kimmelman on housing projects' architectural lessons (The New York Times)
Glenn Lovell reviews Liam Neeson in "The Grey" (CinemaDope.com)
Mark Mobley writes a Philip Glass birthday tribute (NPR)
Renee Montagne on "Consent of the Networked" author Rebecca MacKinnon (NPR)
Ann Powers on Lana Del Rey (NPR)
Ann Powers on the Bob Dylan tribute "Chimes of Freedom" (NPR)
Craig Seligman reviews Cullen Murphy's "God's Jury" (Bloomberg News)
Marcia B. Siegel reviews Monica Bill Barnes and Company (The Boston Phoenix)
Calvin Wilson on Ensemble Español (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
Linda Winer on Signature Theatre Company's new four-stage complex (Newsday)
Linda Winer on Cynthia Nixon as Vivian Bearing in "Wit" (Newsday)

And in books:

Will Hermes' "Love Goes To Buildings On Fire: Five Years In New York That Changed Music Forever" (Faber & Faber/Farrar, Straus & Giroux) was published in November.

This week's links to NAJP members' work:

Robert Campbell on Frank Gehry's house and its AIA award (The Boston Globe)
Francis Davis compiles the Rhapsody jazz critics' poll (Rhapsody)
Michael Feingold reviews "The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess" (The Village Voice)
Matthew Gurewitsch on Swedish soprano Katarina Dalayman (The New York Times)
Matthew Gurewitsch on a prime, unrecorded Wagnerienne (beyondcriticism.com)
John Horn does a roundtable with Scorsese, Clooney et al (Los Angeles Times)
Ann Hornaday reviews Asghar Farhadi's "A Separation" (The Washington Post)
Ann Hornaday reviews "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" (The Washington Post)
Julie Lasky goes desk shopping with Arthur Phillips (The New York Times)
Glenn Lovell reviews "Red Tails" and "Haywire" (CinemaDope.com)
Renee Montagne interviews "Red Tails" screenwriter John Ridley (NPR)
Ann Powers on Bruce Springsteen's "We Take Care of Our Own" (NPR)
Ann Powers on (still) watching "American Idol" (NPR)
Craig Seligman on Adam Johnson's "The Orphan Master's Son" (Bloomberg News)
Marcia B. Siegel reviews Wim Wenders' "Pina" (The Boston Phoenix)
Laura Sydell on the shutdown of Megaupload (NPR)
Laura Sydell on legality and illegality at Megaupload (NPR)
Linda Winer on major revivals for three women: Edson, Vogel and Howe (Newsday)

And in print:

Mark Rozzo on the reopening of the Met Museum's American Wing (Town & Country)

This week's links to NAJP members' work:

Martin Bernheimer reviews "The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess" (Financial Times)
Laura Bleiberg on the lives of several concert dancers (Los Angeles Times)
Robert Christgau on the music of 2011, with Dean's List (Barnes & Noble Review)
Michael Feingold reviews "The Peony Pavilion" (The Village Voice)
Michael Feingold reviews "How the World Began" (The Village Voice)
Matthew Gurewitsch reviews videos of the Vienna Phil with opera stars (Opera News)
John Horn on Oliver Stone's "Savages" (Los Angeles Times)
Ann Hornaday reviews "The Iron Lady" (The Washington Post)
Ann Hornaday on Roger Corman and "Corman's World" (The Washington Post)
Lawrence B. Johnson on Diane D'Aquila as "Elizabeth Rex" (ChicagoOntheAisle.com)
Lawrence B. Johnson on Chailly's quick and sure Beethoven (ChicagoOntheAisle.com)
Glenn Lovell reviews Mark Wahlberg in "Contraband" (CinemaDope.com)
Glenn Lovell on the best, worst, most overrated movies of 2011 (CinemaDope.com)
Nancy Malitz on the Berlin Philharmonic's streaming ways (ChicagoOntheAisle.com)
Ann Powers on Tim McGraw's "Emotional Traffic" (NPR)
Kenneth Turan reviews "Pina" (Los Angeles Times)
Calvin Wilson on musicians continuing John Coltrane's legacy (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
Linda Winer reviews "The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess" (Newsday)
Linda Winer on Athol Fugard on the New York stage (Newsday)

This week's links to NAJP members' work:

Martin Bernheimer on the N.Y. Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall (Financial Times)
Laura Bleiberg on three faces to watch in dance in 2012 (Los Angeles Times)
Larry Blumenfeld on Jonathan Batiste and jazz on the subway (The Village Voice)
Robert Campbell on a long-ago neighborhood's enduring unity (The Boston Globe)
Patti Hartigan on using theater to teach social skills (Harvard Education Letter)
Patti Hartigan on designing "God of Carnage" (The Boston Globe)
Christopher Hawthorne on the death of Ricardo Legorreta (Los Angeles Times)
Ann Hornaday reviews "Pariah" (The Washington Post)
Michael Kimmelman on parking lots as architecture (The New York Times)
Craig Seligman reviews "Margaret Sanger: A Life of Passion" (Bloomberg News)
Craig Seligman reviews a trio of royal biographies (Bloomberg News)
David Streitfeld on Amazon and used Kindles (The New York Times)
Laura Sydell on Rick Santorum's stubborn Google problem (NPR) 

This week's links to NAJP members' work:

Martin Bernheimer on "The Enchanted Island" at the Met (Financial Times)
Martin Bernheimer on New York String Orchestra at Carnegie Hall (Financial Times)
Larry Blumenfeld on bassist Richard Bona (The Wall Street Journal)
Robert Christgau on 10 books about the subprime-etc. crisis (Barnes & Noble Review)
Laura Collins-Hughes on Mike Daisey and New Year's Eve (The Boston Globe)
Francis Davis on 2011's musical bounty (The Village Voice)
Michael Feingold reviews "Lysistrata Jones" (The Village Voice)
Michael Feingold reviews Molly Smith Metzler's "Close Up Space" (The Village Voice)
Michael Feingold envisions Theater Yet to Come (The Village Voice)
Bill Goldstein interviews Stephen Sondheim about "Look, I Made a Hat" (NBC)
Matthew Gurewitsch introduces his Wagnerian Twitter series (beyondcriticism.com)
Matthew Gurewitsch salutes Eye on Dance at 30 (beyondcriticism.com)
Christopher Hawthorne on nature, urbanism and LA's Plaza (Los Angeles Times)
Christopher Hawthorne on books that examine LA as it is or was (Los Angeles Times)
Jan Herman on Ed Sanders's new memoir, "Fug You" (Straight Up)
Ann Hornaday reviews "The Artist" (The Washington Post)
Ann Hornaday reviews "We Bought a Zoo" (The Washington Post)
Ann Hornaday reviews "War Horse" (The Washington Post)
Michael Kimmelman on Madrid Río and urban transformation (The New York Times)
Julia M. Klein interviews Jeffrey Kluger about "The Sibling Effect" (aarp.org)
Glenn Lovell reviews "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" (CinemaDope.com)
Karen Michel on the dissolution of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company (NPR)
David Streitfeld on HybridBooks (The New York Times)
David Streitfeld ventures to Best Buy for a Kindle (The New York Times)
Kenneth Turan reviews "In the Land of Blood and Honey" (Los Angeles Times)
Kenneth Turan reviews "The Adventures of Tintin" (Los Angeles Times)
Kenneth Turan reviews "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" (Los Angeles Times)
Calvin Wilson on "Ghost Protocol" director Brad Bird (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)

Also:

Matthew Gurewitsch has started a yearlong commentary on Wagner's "Ring" on Twitter: @Ring366