Although rarely read today, Fannie Hurst was one of America's most popular, prolific, and well-paid fiction writers of the 1920s and 1930s. The author of eighteen novels in addition to hundreds of short stories, Hurst wrote sentimental but vivid accounts...
B. MARCELLO Sonatas, op. 2 * Hans Ludwig Hirsch (cond); Accademia Claudio Monteverdi Venezia (period instruments) * ARTS 47790-2 (2 CDs: 110:10) As long as there have been siblings, there have been sibling rivalries. Could it have been different for the Marcello brothers,...
After A Moon for the Misbegotten and The Entertainer, Gaslight might seem a bit middle, if not actually low, brow for the Old Vic. The veteran director Peter Gill's approach to Patrick Hamilton's old penny dreadful is, however, utterly reverential, and the...