Divamensch

The winner for Best Actress in a Play for 1996 (thirty years ago, good grief) was Zoe Caldwell in Master Class. Playing Maria Callas, one of the most essential divas (onstage and off) in recorded history. One of the other nominees was Rosemary Harris in A Delicate Balance, playing an upper middle class lady of a certain age, supportive wife, put-upon sister, exhausted mother, gracious but fed up friend. Total mensch. Here's Caldwell as Callas: And a picture of Harris in the r

Barbara and I heard the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center on Nov 7, 2026. It was an all-piano concert, each piece with two pianists (except for the encore, more about that later). There were five pieces on the program and five pianists. They planned it so each pianist played two pieces but always with a different partner. The first piece was the only four-hand piece, the only piece where the pianists sat together at one piano, rather than each having their own piano. It