Classicist Charlotte Eagar writes about her project, with her husband and a Syrian director, to stage the antiwar Greek tragedy in Arabic translation with a cast of women who have fled their homeland’s vicious civil war for neighboring Jordan.
Archives for January 6, 2014
Art Is The Antidote To ‘Stuffocation’
Dereliction of Duty: Canadian Opera Co. Is Ignoring Canadian Opera
Top AJBlog Post For 01.06.14
In Age Of University Museums, A Thriver
Source: Real Clear Arts | Published on 2014-01-07
How many pianos are still being made in Europe?
Source: Slipped Disc | Published on 2014-01-06
Innovation to what end?
Source: Jumper | Published on 2014-01-06
Saul Zaentz
Source: RiffTides | Published on 2014-01-06
2013’s “Word Of The Year” (Just Because)
2013’s Most-Pirated Movies (And The Highest-Selling)
Here Are The Top Box Office Broadway Shows For 2013
The Next Industrial Revolution (It’s Here)
California’s Incubator For Tech Innovators Discovers The Arts
The Problem With Crowd-Funded Movies
“When the people who have paid for the film are also your audience, you lose the latitude to innovate and surprise. Two roles that used to be distinct – investor and consumer – are now one, and as such the way the filmmakers can work is altered and limited, if they are to avoid a fan backlash and get funded a second time.”
By The Numbers: 2013 In Classical Music
She Learned To Dance In A Year On YouTube (Here’s How She Did It)
“I realized that things that look like magic are often just many hours of invisible practice. Since then I’ve learned guitar, cello, singing, card tricks, juggling, unicycling, origami, public speaking and design. There’s something really rewarding about not knowing how to do something, practicing like crazy, and then being able to do it.”
