|
|
» 1A » Sports » City | Region » Health | Family » Communities » Free Time » Weekender » Faith | Values » Inside | Out » A la carte » Arts + Life |
HeraldLeaderPhoto.com
 | |
 | |
| »
View slideshows by Herald-Leader photographers including The Week in Pictures Sports Staff Portfolios and more! | |
|
 |
In March, we all become Irish, even if only for a day. Take a trip to the Old Sod, and see why it continues to weave a spell on those who visit her shores.
Amber Rhodes is on the phone, at a desk in a small office. Occasionally, the Lexington native will say "OK" or "yeah" in reply. She's also sipping coffee and clicking the mouse on a desktop computer.
Opera scared Amanda Balltrip. Growing up in Tennessee and Eastern Kentucky, she figured out at a young age that she wanted to sing.
Ntozake Shange's for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf premiered in 1975, when hip-hop music was in its infancy.
So many Lincoln books, so many Lincoln readers. The market for books about Abraham Lincoln appears limitless, especially as we approach the bicentennial of Lincoln’s birth.
If you have never heard Aaron Copland's Lincoln Portrait, you probably will during the next two years. The work for orchestra and narrator is one of the signature compositions about our nation's 16th president. But it is hardly the only artistic comment on Honest Abe.
But there is just one concerto competition concert, and this year's will feature one of the legendary piano works and a concerto for marimba and orchestra.
Schuyler Robinson is at the pinnacle of a career that began with a little clandestine organ playing. Growing up in Lake Forest, Ill., Robinson started studying piano at age 5, playing by ear the first three years. As a teenager, he became interested in "the sheer power and mechanics of the organ.
"This is a developing story ..." is a fairly common phrase in the news biz, and it certainly applies to the arts in Lexington in 2007. When you start thinking back on the big stories of the past year, several of them were stories that carried over from 2006. And, heck, some of them won't be resolved by the time my roundup for 2008 is being written.
In covering the news of Central Kentucky, Herald-Leader photographers take thousands upon thousands of pictures each year. Naturally some of those images stand out to each photographer.
Readers have the chance to collect two different covers of today's Arts and Life: one featuring Hannah Montana, the other with Miley Cyrus.
