2013 March/April

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Philip Glass Gets Schooled

It’s a great time to be a Philip Glass fan—last year was the composer’s 75th birthday, and special performances were held worldwide. The Philip Glass ensemble performed Glass’s sco…
Tags: Music

Columns

A Beautiful Distortion

One year, my wife and I attended several plays in the Fringe Festival in Dublin, Ireland, where we were living. I remember especially a favorite of mine, Play, by Samuel Beckett. W…
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Reviews

Koralations

Foday Musa Suso and Gretchen RoweSUSO MUSICKORALATIONS IS A MEETING of two musical storytellers from distant continents. Foday Musa Suso grew up in Gambia, Africa, in a family of M…

Kon Tiki

Directed by Joachim Ronning, Espen SandbergKONTIKIFILMEN.COMNorwegian adventurer Thor Heyerdahl’s 1947 Pacific crossing from South America to Polynesia in a self-made raft of balsa…

The Other Side of the Ice

Directed by Sprague TheobaldNORTHWESTPASSAGEFILM.COMIn 2009, author and filmmaker Sprague Theobald had the bright idea of navigating the notorious Northwest Passage (the North…

To the Wonder

Directed by Terrence MalickMAGPICTURES.COM/TOTHEWONDERTo the wonder, an ethereal drama of love and adultery set in Paris and Oklahoma, is American auteur Terrence Malick’s most tra…

Hava Nagila

Directed by Roberta GrossmanHAVANAGILAMOVIE.COMEverybody knows the song “Hava Nagila.” But do they know the origins of this popular folk song, covered by rock stars, country s…

The Dunrobin Session

Pauline Oliveros and Jesse StewartNUUN RECORDSOliveros has explained deep listening as “listening in every possible way to everything possible to hear no matter what one is doing.”…

Amrita

Prajna Vieira and Ben LeinbachMANTRALOGY RECORDSPrajna Viera has honed her golden voice by singing devotional songs for Amma, the humanitarian “hugging saint” from India …

The Passion of Ramakrishna

Philip GlassORANGE MOUNTAIN MUSIC“It would be hard to overestimate the impact that the life, presence, and teaching of Sri Ramakrishna had on the formation of the modern India we k…

The Lunar Tao

Meditations in Harmony with the SeasonsBy Deng Ming-DaoHARPERONE In this book of daily meditations, Deng Ming-Dao reflects on the origins and historical mythology from Taoism, Bud…
Tags: Meditation

Nurturing the Soul of Your Family

Ten Ways to Reconnect and Find Peace in Everyday LifeBy Renée Peterson TrudeauNEW WORLD LIBRARYWhen you're swigging a soda to stay awake, yelling at your four-year-old, and fantasi…
Tags: Family

Happier Endings

A Meditation on Life and DeathBy Erica BrownSIMON & SCHUSTERWith sensitivity, humor, and unflinching honesty, writer and educator Erica Brown explores how fear and denial …
Tags: Book Reviews Meditation Death

The Longevity Kitchen

Satisfying, Big-Flavor Recipes Featuring the Top 16 Age-Busting Power FoodsBy Rebecca Katz with Mat EdelsonTEN SPEED PRESSWhat do you get when you take the top science-approved nut…
Tags: Cooking Recipes

Clean

Overcoming Addiction and Ending America’s Greatest TragedyBy David SheffHOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURTEveryone has a skeleton in the closet. And the United States has an awfully bi…
Tags: Book Reviews Addiction Drugs