Jazz/Blues
Quickies: Taylor Swift's $100K Birthday Gift, Caroline Shaw & Nico Muhly, James Wood on Britten Books, Monk in Paris '69, Wagner Sculpture
Classicalite Weekender: NY Phil Secret Contract, New Children's Opera in DC, New Orleans Jazz Fest 2014, Holiday Gift Guide, 'Moonlight Sonata' Film
"Two whole days, five great links!" -- News 4's Brick Dozer Even on the weekend--classical music, musicals, ballet, jazz, etc. --arts news still gets made fresh. WATCH: Soprano Martina Arroyo, Pianist Herbie Hancock Honored at 2013 Kennedy Center Honors in Washington
The theme continued when Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the first Hispanic member of the nation's highest court, introduced opera diva Arroyo. The daughter of a Puerto Rican father and an African-American mother, Arroyo grew up in an unlikely place for a future opera star: New York City's Harlem neighborhood.
