Laura Atkinson

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Editor, Style at The Sunday Times

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Renee Fleming finds her way to nature after a career singing on the world's stages

1 week ago | lpm.org | Laura Atkinson

What more could an artist like Renee Fleming look to achieve? She has sung on every major stage in the world, she's performed for Presidents and royalty and the Super Bowl. She's won Grammys, the National Medal of Arts, written books, consulted for major arts organizations... what else could lie ahead for someone like Fleming? "Well...
Howard Goodall's Requiem sheds light on the living

2 weeks ago | lpm.org | Laura Atkinson

Howard Goodall says he can only take so much credit for his work. It comes to him from some source... a muse? A rush of hormones? The Divine? His role, as he explains it, is to capture what he hears in his mind, and write it down before it slips away. When his work Eternal Light: A Requiem began to take shape, Goodall felt somewhat disconnected from the traditional text of the Mass for the Dead.
This fashion editor's pick for a chic family holiday? It's Marbs

2 months ago | thetimes.com | Laura Atkinson
New albums featured during Black History Month on WUOL

2 months ago | lpm.org | Laura Atkinson

Every day at 2pm, I’ll be featuring some of the stellar Black artists of our time and of eras past on Voices Carry. We’ll share in some powerful singing from titans of the operatic world, world-premiere songs by Florence Price, centuries-old Black spirituals, and art songs written by current Black composers exploring the Black experience in our world today.
A dichotomy of hope and horror: music of the Holocaust

Jan 24, 2025 | lpm.org | Laura Atkinson

As we continue our commemoration of the 80th International Holocaust Remembrance Day on WUOL, listen to my conversation with David Chack, Professor of Holocaust Theatre and Performance at DePaul University in Chicago. We talk about the ways art and music were experienced in various concentration camps, about how art was a home to both hope and horror, and our duty to not over-romanticize the art that comes from this period. David recalls Alma Rosé Mahler's experience in Auschwitz, among others.
What to listen for on WUOL this 80th Holocaust Remembrance Day

Jan 22, 2025 | lpm.org | Laura Atkinson

“Here… everything of an artistic nature is the very antithesis of one’s environment” Viktor Ullmann, 1944This year marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. In many ways, there doesn’t always feel like much to celebrate. How far as a people, as a world have we really come?
beauty, accessories and more

Jan 18, 2025 | thetimes.com | Laura Atkinson
In Tune With... David Borman

Jan 14, 2025 | lpm.org | Laura Atkinson

In Tune With... is a monthly interview series that introduces you to Louisville's artists by exploring their connection to classical music and to our city. David Borman, conductor of The Louisville Chorus1. What is your concert day routine? Concert day always involves caffeine, typically Heine brothers. During the fall, it’s a pumpkin spice latte with oat milk, yum! If it’s an evening concert, I might wait until early afternoon for the caffeine.
What's it like to play a Stradivarius? I asked Ray Chen.

Nov 11, 2024 | lpm.org | Laura Atkinson

If you've spent any time around classical music, there's a good chance you've heard the term "Stradivarius" thrown around before. But what does it mean? There's a sort of aura of mystique and intrigue around these very special instruments that carry the Stradivarius name. These are string instruments, most often violins, that were built by the Italian violin-maker Antonio Stradivari in the early 1700s.
Style is 30! Explore our archive of fun, fashion and famous faces

Nov 2, 2024 | thetimes.com | Laura Atkinson

The first issue of Style, published on September 18, 1994, edited by Alison McDonald, featured an unnamed model reading a copy of the magazine while she relaxed among the suds. Launched to reflect the growing interest — and advertising revenue — in fashion, beauty and interiors, this early iteration of Style featured a column by a young Jonathan Ross, a lonely hearts section called Encounters and was mostly, apart from the cover, printed in black and white.