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Elvis Presley during the “Don’t be Cruel” recording session at the RCA Victor Studio 1 in NYC, July 2, 1956. Copyright ©Alfred Wertheimer. All Rights Reserved. If you’re interested in Elvis Presley’s music from his golden year of 1956 there is a new box set called Young Man with the Big Beat that is terrific. […]

Wertheimer’s Elvis/The Kiss photo mystery solved!

A story from this summer, July 2011, on Govinda Gallery in The Washington Post.

A story from this summer, July 2011, on Govinda Gallery in Georgetown.

My friend and jazz aficionado Bill Paley invited me to the 25th Anniversary All-Star Concert and 2011 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Piano Competition at the Kennedy Center last night. It was an incredible evening of outstanding Jazz and of outstanding talent. The special honoree was the incomparable Aretha Franklin, who brought the house to its […]

News and photos from this year’s All Ireland Music Festival.

Carlotta Hester’s exhibition covered in The Anglo-Celt Newspaper.

While visiting London for Donovan’s Royal Albert Hall concert a few weeks ago I went to the remarkable Saatchi Gallery to see the exhibition The Shape of Things to Come: New Sculpture. While at The Saatchi Gallery I picked up The Saatchi Gallery Magazine and was delighted to see Mick Rock’s photo of Syd Barrett […]

Govinda Gallery’s thirty-five year exhibition cycle.

Govinda Gallery just completed a thirty-five year cycle of exhibitions. We document here the complete exhibition history on 34th Street in Georgetown.