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Articles by Grace Lichtenstein
CBS News Tells of Payola on Records (Published 1974)
Aug. 10, 1974 Credit...The New York Times Archives See the article in its original context from August 10, 1974, Page 59Buy Reprints TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them.
Seven Truly Essential Apps for Your iPhone | NYCITYWOMAN
There’s an app for ordering food, making reservations, posting on Facebook, breaking news, music, banking, ordering car service and almost anything else you want or need. By Grace Lichtenstein Use the Uber app when you visit the ’burbs. . . . . . . . . . . . . Love your smart iPhone for making phone calls and maybe even texting? Perhaps you’ve already got a photo on your opening display of your grandkids or your dog.
Touring France With Comfort On An E-Bike | NYCITYWOMAN
Even if you’re not as agile as a 30-year-old, you can still pedal through rolling hills and vineyards on an electric-assist bike. By Grace Lichtenstein The author on her E-bike in southern France. Perhaps for a long time you’ve wanted to travel through Provence and have heard that the best way to tour is from the seat of a bicycle. But you’re afraid that now you’re too out of shape and no longer have the stamina for riding daily through rolling hills and vineyards.
Best Books About New York City | NYCITYWOMAN
Thousands of books have been published about New York City; thousands more are set in the city. How can New York City readers know where to start? By Grace Lichtenstein Wooden Horses (1936), by Reginald Marsh. From the book, Coney Island. . . . . . . . . . . . .
Deborah Borda and the 21st Century Orchestra | NYCITYWOMAN
The president and CEO of the New York Philharmonic made it a priority to have women composers in this season’s lineup. By Grace Lichtenstein Julia Wolfe’s multimedia oratorio “Fire in my mouth”—with lights, chamber choir, video, and projection—explored the devastating Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of 1911 that killed more than 100 young immigrants. Photo by Chris Lee. . . . . . . . . . . . .
Older, Slower, but Still Skiing Downhill
Slow down? Perhaps. Give up? Nope! The thrill of whooshing down a snow covered mountain never goes away for women determined to stick with the sport. By Grace Lichtenstein Grace Lichtenstein, center in blue and white jacket, with some of her “yes!-still-skiing cohort” at Snowmass in Colorado. Photo: Mike Nadiak. Below, gondola at Snowmass. Photo: Dan Bayer. . . . . . . . . . . . .
Becoming Michelle Obama | NYCITYWOMAN
Michelle Obama reveals how an American icon is the symbol of striving for a work-life balance. By Grace Lichtenstein A friend of mine says she would never forgive Michelle Obama for not campaigning on behalf of Democrats during the crucial 2010 midterms, when the party lost the House. As her excellently written memoir makes clear, the First Lady mostly dislikes politics, so her non participation back then was not a surprise.
Great Jazz, Super Musicals Wrap Up Summer Music Scene
The final days of August bring a rush of terrific jazz, a dance party and musical comedies to all corners of the Berkshires. Head for the Pittsfield Common on Saturday, Aug. 25, for a brand new enterprise, the the first Berkshire Jazz Showcase. Between 1 and 6 p.m. five of the area's most popular bands will take the stage for an extravaganza: The Lucky 5, Gruppo Mondo, the Ben Kohn Quartet, the Jason Ennis Quintet with vocalist Natalia Bernal and Andy Kelly Gypsy Jazz.
Famous Father Girl, a memoir
In her new memoir, Famous Father Girl, Jamie Bernstein candidly recalls her life as the eldest daughter of conductor Leonard Bernstein. Clockwise from left: Leonard Bernstein, son Alexander and daughter Jamie shared a love of the Beatles; Jamie with Lillian Hellman; Grandad LB with Jamie’s daughter Frankie. . . . . . . . . . . . . Jamie Bernstein, the oldest daughter of composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein, opens the door of her modest Chelsea apartment.
Popular Music Scene Awakens in the Berkshires
Please allow me to introduce myself: My name is Grace and I will be your guide each week this summer to the best in pop concerts, jazz and musical theater throughout the Berkshires. I'm a lover and student of all genres of music and a Berkshires regular. My background is as a news and feature reporter for The New York Times. I've written and/or collaborated on six books and my work has appeared in numerous magazines.
Dreamscapes in New York
The American Composers Orchestra wound up its 40th anniversary season of presenting recent and brand-new works by Americans with an evening at Zankel Hall mostly by composers from, or better known in, the jazz world. As it turned out, the music itself was firmly in the contemporary classical camp except for some ragtime piano in Ethan Iverson’s exuberant if awkward Concerto to Scale, and a hint of jazzy winds in TJ Anderson’s Bahia, Bahia.
A Peek at 10 New Books For Spring Reading
The most anticipated books due for publication this spring include titles about the women’s movement, aging and New York City. Among the authors: Barbara Ehrenreich, Anna Quindlen and Meg Wolitzer. Wolitzer’s previous novel, The Interestings, was a multi-character read about a group of kids who met in camp and grew up interlocked.
Woman of Heart and Mind…and Ego
A new biography of Joni Mitchell, Reckless Daughter by David Yaffe, tells uncomfortable truths about the only songwriter in the same league as Dylan. Some pop culture idols never grow old. Janis Joplin, for instance, remains the bangled 27-year-old hippie chick with a style borrowed from Bessie Smith. James Dean is still 24, the coolest rebel of his generation. And then there is Joni Mitchell, 74, sick, hostile and ungrateful. For those of us who have worshipped her work, it’s heartbreaking.
‘Battle of the Sexes’ Tennis, Triumph, Trauma
As the film opens nationwide NYTimes journalist Grace Lichtenstein recalls covering the notorious 1973 tennis match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs Bobby Riggs and Billie Jean King in 1973. Archival photos from TheClio.com.
Carole King Draws 70,000 to Central Park
May 27, 1973 See the article in its original context from May 27, 1973, Page 1Buy Reprints TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them. Occasionally the digitization process introduces transcription errors or other problems.
Five great chamber music programs at the 2016 Aspen Music Festival
The 2016 Aspen Music Festival consists of more than 400 classical and other musical events, held in a variety of indoor and outdoor venues. It is set in a legendary mountain town in one of Colorado's most stunning landscapes. With so much to choose from among a panoply of performances, it's hard to choose just a few. Here are a selection of must-hear chamber music still to come this summer. The legendary quartet has always been an Aspen favorite.
Best places to stay near Jazz Aspen Snowmass
There are two installments of Jazz Aspen Snowmass concerts in 2016, the June Experience June 24-26, which takes place mostly in the comfortable Benedict Music Tent in Aspen, and the Labor Day experience Sept. 2-4, which takes place outdoors at the Town Park in Snowmass Village. The two resorts are a half-hour’s drive apart in the Colorado Rockies and while both offer accommodations in these stunning mountain locales, Snowmass has a wide range of hotels and condos from affordable to luxury.
Best-seller buddies: DeLillo and Baldacci
No, nowhere has it been suggested that Don DeLillo and David Baldacci are buddies. Nor that they even know or read one another.
The top 5 best New York Mets pitchers of all-time
Even if these pitchers didn’t spend their entire careers with the Mets, they are almost consensus choices for a team whose best rosters were built around great pitching. Mets fans saw the young Nolan before he was really the Ryan Express. In his Mets years, 1966, 1968-1971, he was a young fireballer. In his only 1969 World Series appearance, he came in as a reliever and got credit for a save against the Baltimore Orioles.
Weather at Jazz Aspen Snowmass
Some of the greatest names in music are coming to the two Jazz Aspen Snowmass events, which bookend the 2016 summer. The June Experience is scheduled for June 23-July 2. After that comes the Labor Day Experience Sept. 2-4. The June festival kicks off with jazz singer Gregory Porter at the Aspen Art Museum and the lineup includes such legends as Diana Ross and Smokey Robinson. The Labor Day weekend winds up with Stevie Wonder live in Snowmass Village.
Five things to bring to Jazz Aspen Snowmass
Among the treats at Jazz Aspen Snowmass are great performers such as singer Sheryl Crow, iconic Motown artists Smokey Robinson and Stevie Wonder, the roots/rock band Train, and jazz vocalist Gregory Porter. The two parts of Jazz Aspen Snowmass bookend the 2016 summer in the Roaring Fork Valley, which includes Colorado’s legendary resort Aspen as well as its nearby neighbor, Snowmass Village. The June Experience, takes place in Aspen June 23-July 2.
‘Star Wars’ composer John Williams, Holst’s ‘The Planets’ at NY Philharmonic
Listeners have heard musical echoes of Holst's “The Planets” in many a sci-fi movie score. It's on the bill next week along with famed film composer John Williams' “Tuba Concerto” at the New York Philharmonic May 26-28 in New York City . The selections are part of a week spotlighting Williams, which begins May 24 with a concert of his movie scores.
NY Phil Biennial new music fest: Three weeks, 100+ composers, eight venues
The New York Philharmonic Biennial, nicknamed “Let’s Play,” celebrates the best of new classical music. It runs May 23 through June 11 and features works by more than 100 composers. Music Director Alan Gilbert, who said at a preview May 11 at the Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center that he was “passionate” about contemporary music, noted that even with so many concerts, the Biennial represents only a “sliver” of the new music scene.
The Jazz Aspen Snowmass transportation guide
Colorado’s popular Jazz Aspen Snowmass, a two-part festival featuring some of the biggest names in jazz, pop and rock takes place in two neighboring resort towns beneath the soaring Elk Range of the Rockies. They bookend the 2016 summer. First there’s the Jazz Aspen Snowmass Summer June Experience from June 23 through July 2; the highlights include Sheryl Crow and Smokey Robinson. Later, catch Train and Stevie Wonder at the Jazz Aspen Snowmass Labor Day Experience Sept. 2-4.
Brooklyn Saturday night: seven miles of glowing lights on bikes
Imagine the Brooklyn waterfront aglow at dusk with a moving mass of wild and crazy illuminated bicycles. That’s what the first Brooklyn Bike Rave this Sat. May 14 hopes to create in support of the Brooklyn Greenway Initiative. It’s the first of its kind here, and over 500 riders are expected, Olivia Lynch, director of outreach and engagement for the Initiative said in an email,.
The Revolution Has Been Televised: On Big Sports and Big Money
Years ago, I wrote a book about the women’s professional tennis tour. In 1973, the year Billie Jean King beat Bobby Riggs, access to players at most tournaments was easy; few agents or managers walled them off from the press. Coaches? Unheard of. Nutritionists? Please. The very best female tennis pros in the country earned thousands of dollars for winning ($25,000 for the U.S. Open), not millions. To save money, they overnighted at the homes of local enthusiasts.
Dutch outfit offers electric-assist commuter bike in Brooklyn showroom
There’s a new electric commuter bike on the Brooklyn hipster scene and as befits the origin of the borough’s name, it is Dutch. The VanMoof Electified S features an anodized gray aluminum frame in a distinctive style with a built-in motor for an electric boost on hills and long rides. The bike, which will be available in June in the VanMoof showroom at 269 Baltic St., cruises at up to 20 miles per hour (and thus is legal in New York City) with four levels of assist.
Conductor Robert Spano, Atlanta Symphony return to Carnegie Hall
Two choral pieces – one new, one old – will highlight this Saturday’s visit to Carnegie Hall by conductor Robert Spano and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. The new work is Jonathan Leshnoff's “Zohar,” which was commissioned to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of choral giant Robert Shaw. Shaw was music director of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra from 1967 to 1988.
How Title VII helped even the score for women
When reactionary Southern Rep. Howard Smith in 1964 had Congress add the word "sex" to the workplace section of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, he unwittingly set the stage for working women to file suit against employers who discriminated against them either in lower pay, sexual harassment, pregnancy leave, promotions and more.
Music by Hannah Lash at Miller Theatre
The latest edition of Columbia University’s Miller Theatre “Composer Portraits” series next week will feature the works of Hannah Lash, the young harpist whose works are described as packing the “emotional intensity of Romanticism” with “disciplined technique.” Among the pieces will be a Miller commission, “Music for Eight Lungs” and another world premiere, “Six Etudes and a Dream.” Performing will be the popular and much praised JACK Quartet, plus loadbang, a group made up of trumpet,...
Comeback for existentialism?
It’s rare for a philosophy book to appear on any best-seller list other than that of a college textbook store. Yet “At the Existentialist Café” by Sarah Bakewell is nudging into the non-fiction lists this spring. With good reason. The book is a refreshing, colloquial look at a group of mainly French thinkers and writers who were at their most influential during and after World War II.
Surge in NYC bicycle commuters, study shows
The latest study of trends in cycling by the Alliance for Biking and Walking shows that commuting to work by bicycle or on foot has grown to 11.2 percent in New York City, putting it sixth on the list, just behind fabled bike-friendly Portland. Number one on the list is Boston, with 16.7 percent. Washington, D.C., San Francisco, and Seattle round out the top five. There is a big split when it comes to gender. Among walking commuters, 46 percent are women.
A.O. Scott reviews the reviewing game
If you think you’re getting a collection of New York Times writer A. O. Scott’s film reviews, you might be disappointed. It is not a collection but an original investigation of the act of criticism in all kinds of art. Scott examines the critic and the creations he or she looks at in language somewhat academic, occasionally eloquent and mostly entertaining.
What NYC visitors need to know about Citi Bike fees
Tourists and other occasional visitors to New York City have found the Citi Bike system to be a fantastic way of getting around Manhattan, northern Brooklyn and nearby Queens in a hurry. The city has thousands of available bikes at 330 locations, many of them bunched together. Although there have been complaints about docking stations being empty of bikes at peak times and popular locations, the system generally works well.
Citi Bike to close down for snowstorm
As a blizzard barreled toward the East Coast, Citi Bike announced this morning that its system of 330 docking stations in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens would shut down at 11 p.m. tonight. The popular bike-share program has attracted thousands of riders taking as many as 50,000 rides per day. Bikes that are out on the streets as the closure begins will be allowed to dock. The parent company Motivate said it would reopen Citi Bike when the snow and weather conditions permit.
'Unsilent Night' in New York’s Greenwich Village and East Village Saturday
Since 1992, Christmas revelers have taken part in a most unusual “caroling” parade that now takes place in over 100 cities, including New York. It’s called “Unsilent Night,” and it is the creation of composer Phil Kline. This mobile sound-sculpture involves people promenading as they carry boomboxes that pump out Kline’s original composition. It begins in New York’s Washington Square Park this Saturday, Dec.
Not Your 80's Snowmass
Way back in the previous century, I took my first runs on a huge mountain not far from Aspen called Snowmass. I loved it instantly. I love it still. But it’s not your ‘80s Snowmass anymore. The sleeping giant has awakened. In earlier years, I was excited each time the mountain came into view from the small plane bringing me from Denver. It looked inviting, less difficult than the Aspen slopes. One central face had runs carved to resemble an enormous aspen leaf.
About the Only Thing That Divides Two Towns on Montana‐Canada Line Is the Border (Published 1976)
By Grace Lichtenstein Special to The New York Times July 28, 1976 Credit...The New York Times Archives See the article in its original context from July 28, 1976, Page 25Buy Reprints TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996.
Stuntman, Eluding Guards, Walks a Tightrope Between Trade Center Towers (Published 1974)
Credit...The New York Times Archives See the article in its original context from August 8, 1974, Page 20Buy Reprints TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them.
Mick Jagger, 29, Gets a Put‐On, Turned‐On Sendoff (Published 1972)
July 28, 1972 Credit...The New York Times Archives See the article in its original context from July 28, 1972, Page 18Buy Reprints TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them.
‘Godfather’ Film Won't Mention Mafia (Published 1971)
Credit...The New York Times Archives See the article in its original context from March 20, 1971, Page 1Buy Reprints TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them.
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