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Sunday, November 8, 2009

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Out Of Cash, Honolulu Symphony Cancels All 2009 Concerts
"Citing mounting debts and lackluster revenues, the Honolulu Symphony said it will file for bankruptcy protection and may lay off half of its musicians. … [The orchestra] will cancel all of its November and December concerts and made no guarantees that the rest of its 2009-10 season would go on." Honolulu Advertiser 11/07/09
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issues
Nine Ways Of Looking At The Fall Of The Wall "Twenty years ago tomorrow, the Berlin Wall came down. The [New York Times] Op-Ed editors asked nine poets - Eastern European, American, Russian and German - to write new works inspired by that event." New York Times 11/08/09
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Philip Gourevitch To Leave Paris Review The former New Yorker staffer, author of We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda, succeeded founding editor George Plimpton on the latter's death in 2003. Gourevitch "plans to return to writing full time." Los Angeles Times 11/06/09
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Merce's Work, Without Merce "By outlining ways in which his dances might be conserved without the dance company for which they were created, Cunningham … introduced a forward-looking program for modern-dance professionals, who have always focused on the here and now. … But can Cunningham's scheme really be carried out? Can the dancers and the dances be disentwined?" New York Times Magazine 11/08/09
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music
Out Of Cash, Honolulu Symphony Cancels All 2009 Concerts "Citing mounting debts and lackluster revenues, the Honolulu Symphony said it will file for bankruptcy protection and may lay off half of its musicians. … [The orchestra] will cancel all of its November and December concerts and made no guarantees that the rest of its 2009-10 season would go on." Honolulu Advertiser 11/07/09
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For The New Barnes, A New Chief Curator Judith Dolkart, currently associate curator of European art at the Brooklyn Museum, joins the Foundation as it prepares to break ground on its new home in center city Philadelphia. She will, among her other duties, plan and oversee the special temporary exhibitions the Barnes will add to its program at the new building. Philadelphia Inquirer 11/06/09
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ideas
How People Get Addicted To Virtual Reality Games "Brain scans of avid players of the hugely popular online fantasy world World of Warcraft reveal that areas of the brain involved in self-reflection and judgement seem to behave similarly when someone is thinking about their virtual self as when they think about their real one." New Scientist 11/06/09
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Why Newspapers Need Editors, Demonstrated In Red Ink "Earlier this week the Toronto Star announced, among other changes, that it was planning to outsource some one hundred in-house, union editing jobs." In response, one of those in-house editors took a red pen to the internal memo making said announcement. Torontoist 11/06/09
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music
Time To Close The Rock Hall Of Fame? "The Hall of Fame is a notoriously top-down institution, with an elite group of insiders making up a nominating committee that pre-selects their own idiosyncratic idea of the worthy candidates. So all of us lowly peons are only allowed to vote for 5 out of 12 possible candidates, which judging from this year's nominees makes for slim pickings." Los Angeles Times 11/06/09
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The Bookless Libraries? "The scientists have mostly gone online with their library needs. Cutting-edge scholars in the humanities are building new disciplines and online environments are are, in effect, libraries themselves; they are diffuse, collaborative, non-hierarchical, always changing." InsideHigherEd 11/06/09
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issues
The Future Of College "What is the future of this thing called college? What became quickly and painfully obvious in their deliberations is that the center will not hold. In something of an irony, higher education leaders acknowledged here Thursday that the very system that put them in the position to run the nation's colleges and universities is no longer fit to groom their successors or the rest of the U.S. work force." InsideHigherEd 11/05/09
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media
EU To Give Teeniest Tiniest Protection To Those Accused Of Illegally Downloading Media "Some members of the European Parliament felt nobody should lose their connection until after they had been prosecuted in a court for illegally downloading content. The new rules take the form of an amendment to a much wider revision of all Europe's telecoms regulations." BBC 11/05/09
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music
Pianists As Super Heroes (Okay, Virtuosos, Then) "Today's virtuosos and super-virtuosos are reluctant members of the club. Many of the younger generation are shunning the repertoire and the older ones are shunning the label. So why are pianists wary of being associated with this tradition?" The Times (UK) 11/05/09
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Why Not? Art Under The Big Top "Paris' Pompidou Center plans to fill a colorful circus big top with Picassos, Matisses and Calders instead, creating a roving museum to take its masterpieces of modern art to France's culturally deprived rural regions and rough suburbs." Gogle (AP) 11/05/09
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issues
Who "Advises" The President On The Arts Want to get appointed to the President's Committee on Arts and Humanities? It's a star-studded group. Here's a little something to think about... Politico 11/06/09
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dance
The Red Shoes Restored, With Shoes Redder Than Ever Manohla Dargis: "This born-again version of The Red Shoes, digitally resuscitated from battered prints and negatives, … is essential viewing because even if you think you have seen the movie before its restoration, if you're under 60, you probably haven't seen it anywhere near its original Technicolor glory." New York Times 11/06/09
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Durham, NC, PAC $1M In Black, Gives $400K To City Eight months after opening, "the Durham Performing Arts LLC [has] made a profit of $1,004,265, of which 40 percent, or $401,706, is to be shared with the city, which owns the building." (Who says the arts aren't an economic engine?) The News and Observer (Raleigh, NC) 11/05/09
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people
Francisco Ayala, Spain's Literary Lion, Dead At 103 "Considered one of 20th-century Spain's most distinguished intellectuals, Mr. Ayala was routinely mentioned as a contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Besides being a novelist, he was a poet, critic, essayist, lawyer and academic sociologist. Much of his work was banned in Spain during the Franco era." New York Times 11/05/09
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music
Honolulu Symphony Fails To Make Payroll "The chairman of the Honolulu Symphony's board of directors [said] that as of last Friday, the symphony did not have enough money to make its payroll. … He refused to confirm whether the orchestra will file for bankruptcy or postpone part of its season. The symphony has already put off two concerts this weekend." KITV (Honolulu) 11/04/09
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ideas
When God Was Dead: A Look Back Remember that notorious 1966 issue of Time magazine whose cover read simply, "Is God Dead?" The article covered "what may be the last theological craze in history," an intellectual movement "to turn Nietzsche's proclamation of the deity's demise from frightful blasphemy into the basis of a new kind of faith." Obit Mag 11/05/09
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media
Disney Moves To Give Mickey Mouse A Little 'Tude "For decades, the Walt Disney Company has largely kept Mickey Mouse frozen under glass, fearful that even the tiniest tinkering might tarnish the brand. … Now, however, concerned that Mickey has become more of a corporate symbol than a beloved character for recent generations of young people, Disney is taking the risky step of re-imagining him for the future." New York Times 11/05/09
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music
Rolando Villazón Says His Voice Is Back "In a new video that was posted on his official website last month and has since been making the rounds on YouTube, [the tenor] declares that his [vocal cord] surgery was a success and even provides a brief vocal demonstration for his fans." He says he will return to the opera stage next year. Los Angeles Times 11/05/09 (includes video)
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visual
Dia Art Foundation To Return To Manhattan In 2003, the contemporary art hothouse opened a big new space in a converted Nabisco factory up the Hudson in Beacon, NY; not long afterwards, Dia closed its exhibition space in New York City. But now, "Dia [has] announced that it will be building a new home in Chelsea, which is now the downtown hotbed of Manhattan art galleries." Time 11/05/09
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dance
Bangarra Dance Theatre At 20 Founded in 1989, Bangarra is now the flagship performing company of Australia's (and perhaps the world's) aboriginal peoples. "When you sit down and see a Bangarra show, you don't realise you've just been given a 50-minute history lesson, you just feel like you've been taken on a journey and it comes back to you in waves.'' The Age (Melbourne) 10/30/09
email this story | Posted 11/05/09@10:07PM
people
George Zoritch, 92, Ballet Russe Leading Man He was "an international star in the rival Ballet Russe companies who stood out for his matinee-idol looks and bold stage presence and who later became one of American ballet's respected teachers." New York Times 11/06/09
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theatre
Julie Taymor's Spider-Man Hangs In The Balance The producers of the long-anticipated musical are to meet with director Taymor and other creative team members to discuss the show's now-considerable cash flow, logistical and scheduling problems. New York Times 11/05/09
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music
Vancouver Opera Celebrates Its Golden Anniversary It's been an eventful 50 years for opera in the City of Rainshine: a legendary 1963 Norma with Sutherland and Horne; Sutherland's husband, Richard Bonynge, as boss during the '70s; a lively Britten-and-Janacek phase; and plenty of the argument, strife and money troubles that are endemic to the art form. Vancouver Sun 11/04/09
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ideas
The Brainwave Sofa (We're Not Kidding) "The couch's lumpy, bumpy shape is a three-dimensional version of a brain scan, specifically a three-second recording of designer Lucas Maassen's alpha brain waves as he closed his eyes and thought of the word 'comfort'." Wired 11/04/09
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visual
Why Are Autumn Leaves More Boring In Europe? North America is, of course, famous for the brilliant reds, oranges and yellows its trees display in the fall, and East Asia offers its own arboreal spectacular (think of all those Japanese maples). Why do the leaves of Europe offer mostly yellow and brown? The answer, it turns out, has to do with ice ages and mountain ranges. EARTH Magazine 11/03/09
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theatre
Cirque Du Soleil Creating Elvis Presley Tribute "Today, the Montreal-based Cirque said the show will be titled 'Viva ELVIS' and that it will premiere in December at its permanent home" in Las Vegas. "Choreographer Vincent Paterson … describes the production as 'an abstract biography of Elvis Presley' that will incorporate some 'acting moments' spoken in English." Los Angeles Times 11/05/09 (includes video preview)
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people
Susan Graham In Bed With Renée Fleming (With Her Ex-Boyfriend Watching) "[With] Renée and me, there's no barrier … We can do anything with each other and we don't care. … One of the reviews said we seemed giddy in bed together, and we really were." (She's talking about playing Octavian to Fleming's Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier at the Met; the ex-boyfriend is conductor Edo de Waart.) San Francisco Chronicle 11/04/09
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music
Real-Life Dead-Baby Mystery Becomes Serialized Radio Opera "Baby Kintyre, a radio opera by composer Dean Burry to be broadcast in serial over five Saturdays starting Nov. 7 on CBC Radio 2, … takes its inspiration from a real 1920s Toronto household where a baby was wrapped in newsprint and buried between the floorboards of an attic … only to be discovered more than 80 years later." The Globe and Mail (Canada) 11/05/09
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publishing
Glenn Beck, Art Critic Manqué, Is Driving Fiction Sales "On his radio show and cable television programs ... Mr. Beck has enthusiastically endorsed dozens of novelists, a majority of them writing in the thriller genre." While he "often selects authors whose plots or characters reflect political stances that mirror his own," that's not always the case. The New York Times 11/05/09
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Taiwan Performing Arts Center, aka National CKS Cultural Center, will open Taiwan International Festival (TIF) from 19th February to 28th March, 2010 featuring the best figures and groups from abroad and Taiwan such as Robert WILSON, TAN Dun, Thomas OSTERMEIER, George FENTON, LÜ Shao-Chia and LIN Hwai-Min, etc. Six of the programs will be world premiere while another six will be Asian premiere. You will be amazed by the diversified cultures in Taiwan and countries around the world. Among others, tickets for the flagship production, 1433-The Grand Voyage, are sold amazingly fast. Please browse http://tif.ntch.edu.tw for more information.

 

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How People Get Addicted To Virtual Reality Games - New Scientist 11/06/09
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Merce's Work, Without Merce - New York Times Magazine 11/08/09
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Nine Ways Of Looking At The Fall Of The Wall - New York Times 11/08/09
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Out Of Cash, Honolulu Symphony Cancels All 2009 Concerts - Honolulu Advertiser 11/07/09
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Philip Gourevitch To Leave Paris Review - Los Angeles Times 11/06/09
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Why Newspapers Need Editors, Demonstrated In Red Ink - Torontoist 11/06/09
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For The New Barnes, A New Chief Curator - Philadelphia Inquirer 11/06/09
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