Upcoming Guests

Monday January 21
Pianist Eliane Elias on her new CD Something for You, a tribute to Bill Evans. Elias also can be heard performing this material at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola in Manhattan Jan. 22-27.
then, artist/author Maira Kalman talks about her latest book, The Principles of Uncertainty.
http://www.jalc.org/dccc/d_calendar.asp
http://www.mairakalman.com/

Monday January 28
Film critic and Film Society of Lincoln Center programmer Kent Jones and author, critic, and Library of America's Editor in Chief Geoffrey O'Brien return to The Speakeasy with their picks for favorite and worst films of 2007.

Bob DeAngelis and Margaret Krug

Juno Award-winning clarinetist Bob DeAngelis talks about his Bennie Goodman tribute concert at Carnegie Hall on Jan. 16. The Coronation of a King: A Tribute to Benny Goodman will be performed with his 50-piece big band, the Champagne Symphony, exactly 70 years to the date after the legendary Goodman concert at Carnegie Hall.

then, Margaret Krug, painter and Senior Lecturer at the Whitney Museum of American Art, talks about art history, techniques, and more. She is the author of of An Artist's Handbook: Materials and Techniques.

Foster Hirsch and Keir Dullea

As the Otto Preminger restrospective rolls out at the Film Forum in Manhattan, Preminger biographer Foster Hirsch and actor Keir Dullea visit the Speakeasy to talk about this maverick fimmaker. Dullea starred in Preminger's Bunny Lake Is Missing, and
Hirsh's book is OTTO PREMINGER: THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING.

http://www.filmforum.org/films/preminger.html

Stacey Kent

Singer Stacey Kent talks about her new CD, Breakfast on the Morning Tram. Stacey will be performing In New York at Birdland from November 27 through December 2.

http://www.staceykent.com/

Luc Sante

Luc Sante Guggenheim Fellow, frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books, and author of the classic Low Life, talks about his work from 1990-2005 and his new collection of pieces from that time, Kill All Your Darlings.

Henry Petroski and Marilyn Maye

Professor of civil engineering (Duke) /author Henry Petroski returns to the program to talk about his latest book, The Toothpick: Technology and Culture.
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Singer Marilyn Maye visits to talk about her tribute to Johnny Carson (she was on the Tonight Show 70+ times). Marilyn will be performing at the Metropolitan Room in Manhattan from Nov. 7 - 19. Don't miss this entertainment powerhouse!!
The Metropolitan Room is at 34 West 22nd St between 5th & 6th Ave. - New York, NY 10010 - Tel: 212 206 0440

http://metropolitanroom.com/index.php?Itemid=111&id=77&option=com_content&task=view
http://metropolitanroom.com/index.php?option=com_jcalpro&Itemid=98&extmode=cal&date=2007-11-01

Daniel J. Levitin

Daniel J. Levitin is at McGill University,where he studies studies the science of musical sound, using a broad spectrum of approaches from low-levels (genes, neuroanatomy) to higher level processes such as the acquisition of musical expertise and the perception of musical emotion.

He discusses his work and his new book This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession (now in paperback).

Bell Chair in the Psychology of Electronic Communication
Laboratory for Music Perception, Cognition, and Expertise
Department of Psychology, McGill University

His research http://www.psych.mcgill.ca/levitin/