Taking off from a newly-revealed incident on the Life of Pi, in which the tiger nearly drowned, The Hollywood Reporter presents an in-depth investigation of treatment of animals in the U.S. movie industry.
Archives for December 3, 2013
Cleveland Orchestra Looks To Expand Its European Bases Further
Bolshoi’s Music Director Abruptly Quits
In a notably terse statement, the theater’s general director announced that he had accepted the resignation of Vasily Sinaisky, effective immediately. Sinaisky, who had been in the job for three years, was due to conduct a new production of Verdi’s Dopn Carlos that opens in two weeks.
Laure Prevost Wins Turner Prize 2013
Performing The Vagina Monologues In China
Did Dorothy Parker Rip Off Lolita From Nabokov?
Angela Lansbury To Make West End Return At 88
The Truth About The Left Brain/Right Brain Relationship
Rare Biblical Texts From Bodleian And Vatican Libraries Digitized
“A Gutenberg Bible, a dazzlingly illuminated 15th-century Hebrew Bible from Spain and a copy of Maimonides’s 12th-century commentary on the Mishnah written in the philosopher’s own hand are among the rare bibles and biblical commentaries from the Vatican Library and the Bodleian Libraries at Oxford that have been digitized and posted online.”
Accountant For Princeton’s Triangle Club Accused Of Embezzlement
“Founded in 1891, Princeton University’s touring musical comedy troupe … has counted among its members luminaries like F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jimmy Stewart and Brooke Shields. But one man involved with the prestigious organization allegedly reached a low point and is now accused of treating the club’s purse as a piggy bank to pay off his personal debts.”
Broadway Posts Record Thanksgiving Week
Australia’s Only Major Classical Music Magazine May Close
The Real-Life Folksters Who Inspired The Coen Brothers’ New Movie
Can You Distinguish Blue From Blue?
For Maria Callas’s Birthday, Five Great Rumors
Critic Marion Lignana Rosenberg, 51
“A multilingual writer of wide-ranging interests – from Italian art and literature to the life of Maria Callas – Rosenberg’s feature stories and music criticism appeared frequently in Time Out New York, as well as Newsday, Forward, Capital New York, Opera News, Salon, the Classical Review and La Voce di New York.”
Serbian Composer Djuro Zivkovic Wins Grawemeyer Prize
“Zivkovic, who is also active as a violinist, has a mystical bent. He characterizes his winning piece as an “instrumental cantata” inspired by the religious music of J.S. Bach and especially the Philokalia (love of the beautiful), a collection of ancient Eastern Orthodox texts.”
Bolshoi Dancer Convicted, Sentenced To Six Years In Acid Attack
How Smartphones Are Ruining The Museum Experience
“Flash photography has long been banned owing to the damage its blasts of high-intensity light can inflict on paintings. Smartphones and tablets pose a less visible but potentially graver threat. They disconnect the visitor from the art on display and imperil the museum in other, very real, ways.”
Why Are Lists The Crack Cocaine Of Journalism?
FTC Wonders If Music Teachers Are Anti Competitive?
“The association’s sin, according to the feds, rested in its code of ethics. The code lays out ideals for members to follow–a commitment to students, colleagues, society. Tucked into this worthy document was a provision calling on teachers to respect their colleagues’ studios, and not actively recruit students from other teachers.”
Online Video Streaming Data Shows Us How TV Networks Have Misjudged Prime Time
LA Weekly Cuts Theatre Reviews
Violin Prices Soaring
The Problem With Involving The “Public” In Public Art
“Consultation doesn’t work. If I am going to be kicked for a piece of art work, and I fully expect to be, than I want to be kicked for a piece that I have chosen, that I can stand by.” Public art, though, executed in our name, requires the vision of an artist who can shape and lead public taste without patronising people.”