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Marin Alsop, a world-renowned conductor name-checked in “Tár,” is speaking out against the 2022 film and its antagonistic protagonist portrayed by Cate Blanchett.In a recent interview with British newspaper the Times, Alsop denounced the prestige drama’s depiction of Lydia Tár — a fictional, abusive, narcissistic maestro who bullies her students and exploits her employees. Alsop — a real-life maestro, principal conductor of the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra and esteemed MacArthur fellow from New York — is mentioned in…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeMarin Alsop, a female conductor namechecked in Tár, has hit out at the critically acclaimed film, calling it “anti-woman”.Cate Blanchett stars in Todd Field’s film as Lydia Tár, a world-famous fictional conductor who finds herself at the centre of a debate about the power given to successful artists after she is accused of preying on and abusing young musicians.A number of reviewers…

Sitting in a smart hotel foyer a stone’s throw from Berlin’s Philharmonie concert hall, there’s little indication of the dramatic week Daniel Harding has had. He is in town conducting the Berlin Philharmonic in a programme of Vaughan Williams, Strauss and Unsuk Chin’s intensely complex 2008 work Rocaná. He seems relaxed and casual in a hooded tracksuit top and jeans, and as we settle down to chat, I mention how much I enjoyed the concert – and how much he seemed to, as well.“I’m glad that was the impression,” he says with…

PRAGUE —  Libor Pešek, a Czech classical music conductor best known for leading the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic for a decade, has died. He was 89.Pešek died on Sunday, said Jan Hasenöhrl, the director of the Czech National Symphony Orchestra where Pešek was a chief conductor until 2019. Pešek worked with several orchestras at home and abroad. He was a great supporter of music from Czech composers, above all Josef Dvořák’s pupil and son-in-law Josef Suk. His recordings and concerts with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic…

No one but Cate Blanchett could have delivered the imperious hauteur necessary for this engrossing movie from writer-director Todd Field, about a globally renowned conductor heading for a crisis or crackup or creative breakthrough. No one but Blanchett has the right way of wearing a two-piece black suit with an open-necked white shirt, the way of shaking her hair loose at moments of abandon, the way of letting her face become a Tutankhamun mask of contempt. She holds the screen for two and a half hours, aided by Florian…

Maestro​​ first look is here. On Monday, streaming platform Netflix shared a few stills from its biographical drama on the life of the iconic broadway conductor Leonard Bernstein to pique the curiosity of fans. In them, we see Bradley Cooper in a virtually unrecognisable avatar as he transforms into the music legend. His body language and intense gaze are hard to miss. These stills also give us a look at the softer moments from Bernstein's life as we see Cooper with Carey Mulligan, who plays his wife Felicia…

In 1939, when popular American novelist Gertrude Stein wrote The World Is Round, it was markedly different from other children’s literature of the time. In its pink pages, Stein wrote about a little girl named Rose who was in search of her individual identity. Rose had a favourite song, that she would only sing in the presence of her big dog Love which went like, “I am a little girl, and my name is Rose. Rose is my name. Why am I a little girl? And why is my name Rose?". Stein isn’t the only famous writer, who despite not…