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No, I haven”t read all of Proust. Fighting the coronavirus humble brag

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David Hockney has painted 10 new iPad works. Barbra Streisand is working on her memoir. On Instragram people are baking bread and working out. Friends are calling to say that they”ve Marie-Kondo”d their homes.And all their getting-things-done is stressing me out.What this is is an epidemic of humble brags.People are knitting and quilting and reading […]

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“I want to leave home less and less.”

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As the sixth week of the stay-at-home order in California begins, I realize that I”ve become deranged and must be suffering from a Coronavirus pandemic-induced Stockholm syndrome because I keep thinking: I don”t want the quarantine to end.Outside my home’s bubble is tragedy: Thousands upon tens of thousands of lives lost to this insidious malady, […]

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Q & A with Zubin Mehta on Making Music After a Historic War

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When the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (IPO), conducted by Zubin Mehta, played at Walt Disney Concert Hall in October, it was part of a farewell tour for the 81-year-old maestro, who will retire in October 2019.Born in India and music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra from 1962 to 1978, Mehta is much attached to […]

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