In this outtake from Never Too Late: The Doc Severinsen Story, the colorful bandleader of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson and master trumpeter shares his best advice with one of his music students. Stream the documentary now.
The renowned physician and writer Oliver Sacks was known for his amazing empathy for other people. But his first “friends” as a child, as he described, were not people but numbers, minerals, metals and plants.
“It wasn’t the first time I had seen Twyla at work with her dancers, but it was definitely the most memorable,” dance critic Laura Shapiro writes in this exclusive essay for our website.
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