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Malcolm Clarke's Film on Late Pianist Alice Herz-Sommer, 'The Lady in Number 6,' Wins 2014 Oscar for Best Documentary Short
Pianist Alice Herz-Sommer, who passed away a week ago at age 110, was the world's oldest Holocaust survivor. Malcolm Clarke's film about her, The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life, won an Oscar for Best Documentary Short at the Academy Awards on Sunday night. Late Composer Robert Ashley's Pataphysical Operas Seek Whitney Biennial Premiere, Alex Waterman Directs via Kickstarter?
Kickstarter has certainly become the vehicle de rigueur for taking productions of all shapes and sizes to the widest possibly audience. This time, Alex Waterman needs your help staging the avant-garde stylings of the late American composer (perhaps thee greatest American composer we've ever had) Robert Ashley.
