Hamlet, Shakespeare

Wooster Group reenacts Richard Burton's 1964 Hamlet with a video of that performance as a backdrop. Interesting but not revealing.

Recommend with caveats.

Die Zauberflote (Mozart)

Julie Taymor production with Joseph Kaiser (Tamino), Diana Damrau (Pamina), and Anna-Kristiina Kaappola (Queen of the Night).

Die Zauberflote, Mozart

Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, Sidney Lumet

A great movie with Philip Seymour Hoffman and Ethan Hawke. In the same dark crime-gone-awry vein as A Simple Plan (or even Fargo).

High recommend.

Sarah Vowell

Droll reading of her very funny essays.

Recommend.

Wall Street Chamber Players

Turina. Piano Quartet in A minor, Op 67
Dvorak. String Quarter in G major, Op 106
Brahms. Piano Trio No 2 in C major, Op 87

At Letha & Jack Sandweiss home.

Charles Ives Program

Trio for Violin, Violoncell, and Piano.
Performed by Adrian Slywotzky (violin), Katherine Kayaian (cello), and Stephen Porter (piano)