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Archives for January 24, 2014

Marilyn Horne At 80

PEOPLE Posted: January 24, 2014 2:10 pm

“Her hair is white, her gait a tad unsteady, and she underwent treatment for pancreatic cancer in 2006 and 2007, but her build is still solid, her skin firm, her voice strong, her eyes twinkling, and her cancer gone. When she comes out on stage, she’s used to dominating it, even if her performance these days is devoted less to the operas of Rossini and more to singing the praises of her three grandchildren, Daisy, Henry and Alex.”

PEOPLE Published: 01.24.14

Read the story in Washington Post Published: 01.24.14

Dance’s Injury Problem (Why Does It Have To Be This Way?)

DANCE Posted: January 24, 2014 2:08 pm

“Ballet has for centuries been taught by its high priests like a sacred mystery, shut off from medical analysis of its principles. Given the horrendously high rate of injury it seems to entail (mostly related to repetitive strain rather than sudden accident), isn’t it time that a comprehensive review, informed by modern physiology, was made of its theories and practices?”

DANCE Published: 01.23.14

Read the story in The Telegraph (UK) Published: 01.23.14

How Netflix Is Taking Over TV

MEDIA Posted: January 24, 2014 2:02 pm

“The true threat to HBO and the cable business model is that NetFlix can transcend the television itself, offering you shows on all your devices.”

MEDIA Published: 01.24.14

Read the story in Wired Published: 01.24.14

Want To De-Motivate Your Unconfident Kid? Praise Them

IDEAS Posted: January 24, 2014 12:23 pm

“As the researchers predicted, inflated praise led children with low self-esteem to choose the less-challenging assignments. For children with high self-esteem, it had the opposite effect, increasing the likelihood they’d pick the more difficult task.”

IDEAS Published: 01.23.14

Read the story in Pacific Standard Published: 01.23.14

Charge: Orchestras Are Hostile To Women

MUSIC Posted: January 24, 2014 11:39 am

“Women still tell me they find orchestras can be hostile, can undermine them deliberately, that executive directors can be sceptical.”

MUSIC Published: 01.24.14

Read the story in BBC Published: 01.24.14

Irish City Bans A Play For Being Blasphemous

THEATRE Posted: January 24, 2014 11:37 am

Christians have forced the cancellation of play at a Northern Ireland theatre because it supposedly mocks the Bible, it has emerged.

THEATRE Published: 01.24.14

Read the story in The Guardian (UK) Published: 01.24.14

The Death Of Pop Music?

MUSIC Posted: January 24, 2014 11:32 am

“While those born in the Sixties may cling to notions of pop’s ‘importance’, younger generations appear far less obsessive or even interested. Many argue that computer games, the internet and social media have filled the gap where buying vinyl and the music weeklies used to be.”

MUSIC Published: 01.17.14

Read the story in spiked Published: 01.17.14

Classical Music Dying? It Isn’t A Very Sound Argument

MUSIC Posted: January 24, 2014 11:24 am

“The most exciting music being created today is not the product of a single compositional aesthetic or the work of just one segment of the population. (Pick your prejudice and throw it away.) It cannot be contained geographically or be hermetically sealed up in impenetrable genre boxes.”

MUSIC Published: 01.24.14

Read the story in NewMusicBox Published: 01.24.14

Osmo Vanska Will Perform With The Minnesota Orchestra This Season

MUSIC Posted: January 24, 2014 7:59 am

“Some concerts are drawn from a self-produced season that musicians put together. Others were assembled from scratch. Neu said that he, CEO Michael Henson and a group of musicians worked on the program.”

MUSIC Published: 01.24.14

Read the story in The Star-Tribune (Mpls) Published: 01.24.14

Admission To 9-11 Museum Will Be Expensive!

VISUAL Posted: January 24, 2014 7:52 am

“At $24 per person, the new museum will be in the same league as the Museum of Modern Art ($25) and the Metropolitan Museum of Art (suggested admission of $25). That’s some stiff competition for an institution that has a very focused subject: the terrorist attacks of 1993 and 2001.”

VISUAL Published: 01.24.14

Read the story in Washington Post Published: 01.24.14

Ballet San Jose Makes Extra Budget Cuts Before Season Opener

DANCE Posted: January 24, 2014 1:05 am

“The South Bay’s major resident dance company, which has long struggled with its finances, announced Thursday that it will cut its sparsely attended Saturday matinees as well as replace its substitute recorded music for a live orchestra at its Feb. 14-16 performances.”

DANCE Published: 01.23.14

Read the story in The Mercury News (San Jose) Published: 01.23.14

Outside Auditors Slam Dublin’s Alley Theatre

THEATRE Posted: January 24, 2014 12:59 am

“Reports by an independent panel of assessors suggest that the Abbey is struggling to meet its aim of being a world-class theatre. The assessors, appointed jointly by the Arts Council and the Abbey Theatre itself, gave just four of 12 productions marks that would rank them as very good.”

THEATRE Published: 01.19.14

Read the story in The Irish Times Published: 01.19.14

Show Us Your Audience Data, Says Arts Council England

ISSUES Posted: January 24, 2014 12:54 am

“Arts Council England is to introduce new conditions on funding that would force its national portfolio organisations to share their audience data.”

ISSUES Published: 01.23.14

Read the story in The Stage (UK) Published: 01.23.14

The World’s First Robot Theme Park

IDEAS Posted: January 24, 2014 12:52 am

South Korea’s Masan Robot Land in Incheon – “whose English motto is ‘Fun & Fantasy with Robot! – will celebrate science fiction cyborgs and androids while also promoting popular interest in the robotics industry and robot culture.”

IDEAS Published: 01.21.14

Read the story in GlobalPost Published: 01.21.14

Ousted ‘WhatsOnStage’ Editor To Sue

THEATRE Posted: January 24, 2014 12:45 am

“Former WhatsOnStage chief Terri Paddock has spoken out for the first time about her shock departure from the theatre website at the end of last year, describing it as ‘sudden and unexpected’. She said she had asked solicitors to pursue legal action on her behalf.”

THEATRE Published: 01.23.14

Read the story in The Stage (UK) Published: 01.23.14

Terrifying News of the Day: A Lot of ‘Dr. Strangelove’ Was Not Fiction

MEDIA Posted: January 24, 2014 12:38 am

Okay, not the precious bodily fluids obsession, and not the part about Slim Pickens astride a nuclear missile, but beyond that …

MEDIA Published: 01.23.14

Read the story in The New Yorker Published: 01.23.14

Jasper Johns Testifies in U.S. Federal Court

VISUAL Posted: January 24, 2014 12:37 am

“[He] discussed his methodology, corrected a lawyer on the pronunciation of the artist Robert Rauschenberg’s name and said, quite firmly, that he had never authorized a foundry owner to reproduce one of his famous works depicting the American flag.”

VISUAL Published: 01.24.14

Read the story in The New York Times Published: 01.24.14

Here’s the Latest Hot Hollywood Movie Director to Take Up Series Television

MEDIA Posted: January 24, 2014 12:35 am

David O. Russell (I ♥ Huckabees, Silver Linings Playbook, American Hustle) and scriptwriter Susannah Grant (Erin Brockovich) have been commissioned for 13 episodes of “an upstairs/downstairs soap centered on a private country club.” (And this will be for network television rather than cable.)

MEDIA Published: 01.23.14

Read the story in The Hollywood Reporter Published: 01.23.14

Legendary Clipper Ship Becomes Cabaret Theatre

THEATRE Posted: January 24, 2014 12:33 am

The Cutty Sark, in drydock on the Thames in Greenwich, will continue being a historical exhibit by day, “but by night it will become an 85-seat theatre intended to showcase cabaret, music, lectures, small-scale drama and local performers.”

THEATRE Published: 01.21.14

Read the story in The Guardian (UK) Published: 01.21.14

Atom Egoyan on Why Actors in a Feature Beat Real People in a Documentary

MEDIA Posted: January 24, 2014 12:31 am

“In the documentaries [about the West Memphis Three] many of the characters implicate themselves by virtue of the fact that they’re performing for a documentary camera … And I felt that dramatically, using professional actors you could actually achieve a degree of naturalism that maybe in a documentary [you can’t, because] there’s always an agenda.” (audio)

MEDIA Published: 01.23.14

Read the story in CBC Published: 01.23.14

Alice Munro Explains Why She Used to Get Hate Mail

PEOPLE Posted: January 24, 2014 12:29 am

“Many people then, and quite a few people now, want to read books that make them feel good, make them feel happy. … I didn’t understand that you read books in order to feel that the world is better than it is, and so I was offending without really understanding it for quite a while.”

PEOPLE Published: 01.23.14

Read the story in The New York Times Published: 01.23.14

The Six Things That Make Stories Go Viral Will Amaze, and Maybe Infuriate, You

WORDS Posted: January 24, 2014 12:28 am

Or, alternatively, Aristotle Recommended These Three Elements for a Great Story, And Here’s How to Balance Them to Get a Hit.

WORDS Published: 01.21.14

Read the story in The New Yorker Published: 01.21.14

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