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Archives for March 14, 2014

Minnesota Orchestra Loses A Star Principal: “I Don’t Believe Anymore”

MUSIC Posted: March 14, 2014 9:16 pm

“I am resigning now because I do not believe the current leadership has the vision to restore the Orchestra to its place among the great orchestras of the world,’’ longtime principal clarinetist Burt Hara wrote in a letter to his colleagues.

MUSIC Published: 03.14.14

Read the story in MinnPost Published: 03.14.14

Dudamel And Gergiev – Of Art And Politics (It’s Complicated)

ISSUES Posted: March 14, 2014 9:07 pm

“Dudamel has stopped short of taking a political stand; Gergiev, to Western eyes, has taken the wrong one. How much condemnation do they deserve? And is it reasonable to expect them to take a stand at all? Do we have the same expectations of leading figures in other fields — athletes, actors, dancers, poets?”

ISSUES Published: 03.14.14

Read the story in Washington Post Published: 03.14.14

Today’s Top AJBlog Posts 03.14.14

AJBlogs Posted: March 14, 2014 9:01 pm

How You View the Pie
AJBlog: Audience Wanted | Published 2014-03-14

Can arts organizations be both art-focused and community-focused?
AJBlog: Jumper | Published 2014-03-14

Picasso Museum: Reopening With What?
AJBlog: Real Clear Arts | Published 2014-03-14

Will Gentrification Kill Music Scenes?
AJBlog: CultureCrash | Published 2014-03-13

Respecting the craft
AJBlog: The Artful Manager | Published 2014-03-13

Pavarotti estate takes action to stop illicit child duet
AJBlog: Slipped Disc | Published 2014-03-13

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AJBlogs Published: 03.14.14

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Can El Sistema Navigate Venezuela’s Roiling Politics?

MUSIC Posted: March 14, 2014 10:17 am

El Sistema was founded in 1975 by Jose Antonio Abreu, a musician and economist, and it has flourished under eight different governments while aiming to keep many impoverished kids on the straight and narrow. “Ultimately, we have no idea how Dudamel, maestro Abreu and others are functioning in El Sistema. Abreu’s way of working has always been to try and influence the politics subtly from the inside. The second he takes a public stand, he can’t do that anymore.”

MUSIC Published: 03.14.14

Read the story in WQXR (New York) Published: 03.14.14

The Value Of Original Cast Recordings

THEATRE Posted: March 14, 2014 10:13 am

“What it does do is give the listener—as well as actors and directors—a snapshot of what the play sounded like when it was new. Such snapshots can serve as invaluable points of departure for the present-day performer, a benchmark against which to measure subsequent interpretative developments.”

THEATRE Published: 03.14.14

Read the story in The Wall Street Journal Published: 03.14.14

Lyricist Tim Rice On The Key To Success: Failure

PEOPLE Posted: March 14, 2014 8:34 am

“I always worry today when I see everybody has to pass – there’s very little failure these days. I think failure is the best thing for some people.”

PEOPLE Published: 03.13.14

Read the story in The Telegraph (UK) Published: 03.13.14

Voice Over (Literally) Hal Douglas Dies At 89

PEOPLE Posted: March 14, 2014 8:26 am

His dramatic range, from Olympian-thunderous to comic-goofy, suited him for trailers for movies as diverse as “Philadelphia,” “Forrest Gump,” “Coneheads,” “Meet the Parents” and “Lethal Weapon.” (“Under 17 not admitted without a parent.”)

PEOPLE Published: 03.14.14

Read the story in The New York Times Published: 03.14.14

Turn It Down! (We’ve Made The World Too Loud And We’re Being Hurt By It)

ISSUES Posted: March 14, 2014 8:16 am

“Hearing-damaged infants become hearing-damaged teenagers who listen to loud music that further damages their hearing, who then become hearing-damaged adults who go to events that further damage their hearing, who then have children whose hearing is damaged because their parents cannot hear.”

ISSUES Published: 03.13.14

Read the story in Pacific Standard Published: 03.13.14

Report: $66 Billion Of Art Sold Last Year

VISUAL Posted: March 14, 2014 8:09 am

“International art and antique market sales totaled €47.4 billion ($66 billion) last year, their highest sum since the pre-recession days of 2007, according to the European Fine Art Foundation (TEFAF)’s annual art market report, released yesterday.”

VISUAL Published: 03.14.14

Read the story in Hyperallergic Published: 03.14.14

Decline Of The Public Intellectual

IDEAS Posted: March 14, 2014 8:04 am

“A generation ago, political scientists were public intellectuals. We wrote lucid prose. We spoke to the issues of the day. We advised President John F. Kennedy. But now all we care about is math, jargon and one another.”

IDEAS Published: 03.12.14

Read the story in AlJazeera America Published: 03.12.14

The Problem With Movie Reviews Today

MEDIA Posted: March 14, 2014 8:01 am

“If critics want to avoid irrelevance, they might relinquish their duties made redundant by the internet, and focus on reviewing film in terms that draw from their deep knowledge of film as a unique artform. Almost every review—whether in newspapers, magazines or websites—currently follows a similar blueprint: plot synopsis, recap of director’s work, brief appraisal of the acting and/or writing, cursory sentence about the camera work and/or score, and then a long dissection of the narrative and themes.”

MEDIA Published: 03.04.14

Read the story in Prospect Published: 03.04.14

How The Royal Ontario Museum Has Evolved In 100 Years

VISUAL Posted: March 14, 2014 7:54 am

“Over the years, the ROM, beloved, popular and populist, has become less a pinhole to faraway worlds than a primer for the present and increasingly diverse future outside its doorstep. That fact is not lost on them.”

VISUAL Published: 03.14.14

Read the story in Toronto Star Published: 03.14.14

“Noah” Movie Banned In Three Countries

MEDIA Posted: March 14, 2014 7:44 am

“Director of media content at the National Media Center in the UAE, Juma Al-Leem, told The Associated Press on Thursday that the movie will not be allowed in cinemas because it contradicts a generally agreed upon taboo in Islam of depicting a prophet.”

MEDIA Published: 03.14.14

Read the story in Yahoo! (AP) Published: 03.14.14

Killing Books? It’s Ridiculous To Think So

WORDS Posted: March 14, 2014 7:25 am

“Library bureaucrats aren’t books. A single author isn’t the written word. We in the book business are paid poorly for our work, so we tend to inflate the importance of our jobs to the point where any negativity aimed at us becomes an assault on the worthy cause to which we’ve fed large and juicy chunks of our lives: literature, and books, and ideas.”

WORDS Published: 03.08.14

Read the story in The Stranger Published: 03.08.14

Arts Council England: The Arts Lack The Right Data

ISSUES Posted: March 14, 2014 7:00 am

Gaps in research include the sector’s impact on people’s health, how participation in cultural activities may reduce rates of re-offending among criminals, and how these may save the government money, the study reveals.

ISSUES Published: 03.14.14

Read the story in The Stage (UK) Published: 03.14.14

Professional Writers Unions Admit Self-Published Authors (So What’s The Point?)

WORDS Posted: March 14, 2014 6:21 am

“If anyone who declares herself to be a writer is one, then what is the point of a professional organization? Will the group be taken at all seriously?”

WORDS Published: 03.13.14

Read the story in The Globe and Mail (Canada) Published: 03.13.14

Saudi Book Fair Yanks Mahmoud Darwish’s ‘Blasphemous’ Poetry

WORDS Posted: March 14, 2014 12:57 am

“The publications administration at the [Riyadh International] book fair, one of the biggest of its kind in the Arab world, ordered the removal of all books containing [the Palestinian poet’s] work after youths from the religious police complained about the content of the books. … Darwish, who died in 2008, is considered a modern Arab literary giant.”

WORDS Published: 03.13.14

Read the story in Gulf News Published: 03.13.14

Amazon Publishing Makes a Move Into Germany

WORDS Posted: March 14, 2014 12:50 am

“Amazon Publishing is starting a new German-language publishing program that will be based in Munich … Many of the titles first released in Germany will [subsequently] be published in English-language editions by AmazonCrossings.”

WORDS Published: 03.12.14

Read the story in Publishers Weekly Published: 03.12.14

Paul Taylor Dance Co. to Relaunch With Other Choreographers’ Works

DANCE Posted: March 14, 2014 12:41 am

“‘I prefer to think I’m going to live forever,’ said Mr. Taylor, 83 years old. ‘At some point, they’re going to not let me make dances anymore, so I have to think ahead.'”

DANCE Published: 03.13.14

Read the story in The Wall Street Journal Published: 03.13.14

How Did the Stakes for TV Series Finales Get So High?

MEDIA Posted: March 14, 2014 12:39 am

“When I heard pleas from several friends in the week leading up to the last episode that True Detective would ‘stick the landing,’ it wasn’t just out of a hope that the narrative would tie up in a satisfying catharsis. The statement was filled with more anxiety than that – the need for a tangible return on obsessive investment.”

MEDIA Published: 03.13.14

Read the story in The New Yorker Published: 03.13.14

It’s Awkward to Be Writing a Novel Set in Present-Day Crimea

WORDS Posted: March 14, 2014 12:37 am

David Bezmozgis: “As I was writing the book, I kept changing when the action was set, constantly pushing the date ahead by another year … I closely followed the news to see if real events had yet outpaced my inventions. I expected this to happen at any moment in Israel, … [not in] Ukraine and Crimea, places I’d believed to be locked in a dismal kleptocratic stasis.”

WORDS Published: 03.13.14

Read the story in The New Yorker Published: 03.13.14

Being a Paparazzo

PEOPLE Posted: March 14, 2014 12:01 am

As part of its series “You Hate My Job”, Marketplace sends a correspondent to work with guerrilla celebrity photographer and photo agency head Giles Harrison. (includes video and audio)

PEOPLE Published: 03.13.14

Read the story in Marketplace Published: 03.13.14

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