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Isaiah's Blog
 Isaiah
Sheffer, Artistic Director and
co-founder of Symphony Space and host of Selected
Shorts: A Celebration of the
Short Story, gives you a backstage peek at the creation of Symphony Space
programs, and also shares his thoughts on any variety of
topics.
Readers are encouraged to
leave a message for Isaiah and share their own thoughts with other blog
readers.
Blogs -> Isaiah's Blog
Happy summer, blog readers. Greetings from the dunes of
Cape Cod, where I am recuperating from Symphony Space’s 30th
Anniversary Season and preparing for Season #31, which doesn’t have to have any
special milestone celebrations, just the usual sustained artistic
excellence!
But I don’t want to speak yet about the exciting plans
for the coming season in literature, music, film, dance, and all the rest.
There’ll be time for that later.
You know the way newspaper...
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How I Spent My Memorial Day Weekend: Well, I did a couple of
normal things for a few hours of the three-day holiday weekend, like visiting
friends in the country, picking up my car from its winter storage for
summertime use, and attending the festivities at the newly-refurbished Soldiers
and Sailors Monument near my home on Riverside Drive. And I did do a bit of
resting up after a week that included a 12-hour Bach marathon, a Selected
Shorts booking up in Westport,
the celebratory closing...
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FIVE different Selected Shorts programs on two
coasts within six days! Whew! When the Jet Blue red-eye overnight flight from Long Beach,
California deposited a bleary, sleepy Shorts team of Sheffer and Minton at JFK
airport on Monday morning after a week in L.A. rehearsing and presenting three
different story programs on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, focusing on
mysteries, detective tales, and violence and mayhem at our 17th
annual season of literary programs at the beautiful J.Pa...
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“You haven’t blogged in a while, Isaiah” “I know. I’ve been busy.” “People like reading your blog. Thousands of hits. Can’t you find a little time—“ “Okay, okay, but what shall I blog about?” “Blog about being busy. I’m sure they’ll find it interesting.” “Well, maybe they will. Okay, here goes:” Multitasking is the name of the game here at the Artistic Director’s office at Symphony Space. Just as our programs are so varied and diverse, so is a typical day u...
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Dear Friends,
You’ll never guess what I’ve been doing for a good part of yesterday and today. Groveling. Yes, groveling and humbly apologizing for something I DIDN’T DO!
Those of you who listen to Selected Shorts on the radio know that we follow the practice of bleeping out any words that may be considered “obscene” or “inappropriate” or foul. Well, we don’t actually replace their words with annoying BLEEPS! We have learned to be much more subtle, and our mix engineers have develop...
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Wow! If you
weren’t at the 30th Anniversary Star Studded Birthday Bash, oh, you
shoulda been there! It turned out to be a memorable night, and a lot of fun!
Every single seat right up to the back of the balcony was filled with
participating artists, present and former Board and Staff members, old friends,
elected officials, sponsors and supporters, and ticket buyers attracted by the
dazzling list of participants. At the very end, tears streamed down many faces
on and off stage, includ...
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