Editorial processes, Dooley said, are “practically unique for each composer,” but they share a quality of trust between composer and editor. With Harrison Birtwistle, whom Cox spent much of her 47 years at Boosey editing, “there were times when he got bored of answering questions and said, ‘Oh, compose it yourself.’” (Birtwistle, who died in … Read more
Do you feel yourself start to move just reading “brrr-ah bah bah-BAH”? In addition to conveying quality and tone, these sounds are often meant to transfer energy from the speaker’s body to the dancer’s body, eliciting a heightened performance. “Even after everybody knows the choreo, I’m still making a lot of noise, because it’s motivational,” … Read more
In late January, Lonnie Holley was scheduled to perform at a concert in Tulsa celebrating the 50th anniversary of Bob Dylan’s “Blood on the Tracks” as part of a lineup that included Elvis Costello and Lucinda Williams. Holley, 75, a venerated visual artist whose work has been displayed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in … Read more
Wanderstop, a chill but cheeky experience with characters who exude dry humor, appears to be about harvesting and making tea. But it is also full of musings about fatigue and burnout. In other words, is the daily grind worth the harm it can do to the psyche? Cozy games like Animal Crossing, Nintendo’s funny animal … Read more
For Amanda Seyfried, the first day on set for “Long Bright River,” a limited series for Peacock, was awful. She stood under the lights in a mock-up of a police morgue, in her patrol cop uniform, unsure how to move or speak. “Every first day of work, I never know what the [expletive] I’m doing,” … Read more
“I don’t know how you get justice from an accident.” In 2021, the cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was fatally shot on the set of the movie “Rust.” The new Hulu documentary “Last Take: Rust and the Story of Halyna,” directed by Rachel Mason, a friend of Hutchins, is not a chronicle of Hutchins’s life, nor a … Read more
Times Insider explains who we are and what we do and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together. Jason Zinoman, who has been the comedy columnist for The New York Times since 2011, stumbled into his role by accident. “It was just dumb luck,” said Zinoman, then a freelance theater critic for The … Read more
Welcome to Best of Late Night, a rundown of the previous night’s highlights that lets you sleep — and lets us get paid to watch comedy. Here are the 50 best movies on Netflix right now. ‘Stocks Down, Measles Up’ Wall Street had its worst day of 2025 on Monday, after President Trump declined to … Read more
For part of the year, the artist and activist Ai Weiwei works in a cavernous 30,000-square-foot studio on the underground levels of a former 19th-century brewery in Berlin. Its triple-height vaulted cellars, which Ai, a self-taught architect, renovated himself after leaving his native China in 2015, are now pristine and well-lit, but when he first … Read more
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