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The Christmas fruitcake fiasco: Puccini versus Toscanini
In the spirit of the season Cultural Cocktail Hour will share a holiday favorite! In her revealing book, Secret Lives of the Great Composers, Elizabeth Lundy described a fruity fiasco between two rivals: opera composers, Giacomo Puccini and conductor Arturo Toscanini: “During the years of Puccini and Toscanini’s feud, they had very little contact- except for one Christmastime incident.…
Read MoreReview- Hope Springs Eternal: “Manet and Modern Beauty at the Getty Center”
Édouard Manet French, 1832 – 1883 Flowers in a Crystal Vase, about 1882 Oil on canvas Unframed: 32.7 × 24.5 cm (12 7/8 × 9 5/8 in.) National Gallery of Art, Washington, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection,1970.17.37 Image courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington EX.2019.3.100 Hope Springs Eternal: Manet and Modern Beauty at the Getty Center by Leticia Marie Sanchez October 8, 2019 to…
Read MoreReview: By Day and by Night: Paris in the Belle Époque- A MUST SEE Exhibit at the Norton Simon
Review The darkness and light of LA Belle Époque at the Norton Simon Museum October 4, 2019-March 2, 2020 by Leticia Marie Sanchez La Belle Époque, which means the “beautiful age,” evokes thoughts of frothy, light-hearted spectacle: can can dancers, entertainment posters, cabarets, bistros, and electrifying nights at the theater during France’s Gilded Age. However, the Norton…
Read MoreShakespeare’s observation on Summer…
“Summer’s lease hath all too short a date” – William Shakespeare Photos Taken in Montauk, New York (Well Hello there Montauk, where have you been all my life?) All photography ©2019 Leticia Marie Sanchez
Read MoreSnapshot of Manhattan, August 2019 with the words of Walt Whitman 1867
Give me faces and streets — give me these phantoms incessant and endless along the trottoirs! Give me interminable eyes… Give me such shows — give me the streets of Manhattan! Walt Whitman, 1867 All photography ©2019 Leticia Marie Sanchez
Read MoreThe Sherry-Netherland: A welcome dose of Beauty and Civility
Review: The Sherry-Netherland A welcome dose of Beauty and Civility in Manhattan by Leticia Marie Sanchez Amidst the hustle and bustle of New York City is a place that embodies civility at its finest: The Sherry-Netherland. If you find yourself lost, a sidewalk clock on Fifth Avenue bearing the hotel’s name lets you that you have…
Read MoreReview: The 2019 Hampton Designer Showcase House in Southampton
Cultural Cocktail Hour® is a registered trademark Review: An artistic oasis in Southampton by Leticia Marie Sanchez Photo Left: Cultural Cocktail Hour Editor-In-Chief Leticia Marie Sanchez at the 2019 Hampton Designer Showhouse presented by Traditional Home to benefit Stonybrook Southampton Hospital. What struck me about the design of this Southampton retreat on Rosko Lane was that it was simultaneously a calm, light-filled seaside escape as…
Read MoreCultural Cocktail Hour visits New York!
Throwback Tuesday to New York trip two years ago! Looking forward to visiting New York again next week! All photography ©2017 Leticia Marie Sanchez “If London is a watercolor New York is an oil painting”- Peter Shaeffer Central Park, New York, July 2016
Read MoreGet Lost! (Lost in Liberty Park, that is)
Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared in Cultural Cocktail Hour in 2008. In 2017, the Sphere moved from Battery Park to Liberty Park, where it now overlooks the World Trade Center site. Fritz Koenig’s The Sphere by Leticia Marie Sanchez It is the stillness after the storm, a place for reflection on the violence that occurred nearby in lower Manhattan. It is…
Read MoreCultural Events LA: July 4th
William Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream Opens July 4th Directed by Melora Marshall Saturdays at 4 pm: July 4, 11, 18* Thursdays at 8 pm: August 6, 13, 20, 27 Monday at 6:30 pm: September 7 (Labor Day) *Prologue (pre-show discussion): Saturday, July 18 at 3:00 pm (included in ticket price)The Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum. 1419 N. Topanga…
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