by Andreas Kessaris for Curtains Up! (@AKessaris) I first heard of Roger Ebert, or more accurately Sneak Previews (the PBS movie-review show he co-hosted with Gene Siskel), thanks to Mr. Eccles, my Grade Six teacher at Barclay Elementary who spoke of the show (broadcast locally on Vermont-ETV), often in class. From the first time I saw […]
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Simple Dreams: A Musical Memoir by Linda Ronstadt (Simon & Schuster, $29.99)
by Andreas Kessaris for Curtains Up! “I think of music as dreaming in sound.” -Linda Ronstadt When Linda Ronstadt retired from show business in 2009 after five decades, countless hit records, multiple Grammy Awards, and over one hundred million albums sold, it signaled the end of an era when vocalists belted out lyrics that had […]