November 13, 2011

At the Governors Awards, the buzz was all about Billy Crystal, who swooped in to save the Academy Awards.

Italy has replaced Greece as the focus of anxiety in Europe’s debt crisis, but investors are also worried over the outlook for France.

Judy Collins’s memoir addresses her early life, career, romantic relationships, alcoholism and eating disorder, as well as the fraught life of her son, Clark.

Edward Villella, 75, will be stepping down as artistic director of the Miami City Ballet in 2013; according to recent interviews he was forced out in a shift toward a business rather than an artistic leadership.

George Lewis, the composer, trombonist and improviser’s guide, was celebrated at the Miller Theater.

Olivier Latry, the organist at the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris, performed 70 minutes’ worth of highlights from pieces by Olivier Messiaen on Friday.

Henryk Gorecki, the Polish composer, was commemorated on the first anniversary of his death in a concert at Le Poisson Rouge.

Corrections appearing in print on November 13, 2011.

An outpouring of tributes and a new documentary about his life, “When the Smoke Clears,” have given Frazier an eloquence in death that often eluded him in life.

“Saved,” a new series on Animal Planet, features people who were in need of some kind of spiritual boost and received it from an animal.

The campaign uses abstract imagery to draw attention to malnutrition in a “more positive, upbeat way” and to attract donations.

The mezzo-sporano Angelika Kirchschlager and the pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet performed together at Zankel Hall on Saturday.