The Requiem has long been a significant source of major new works (and major commissions) for composers. Mozart died while writing one. Others from Tomas Luis de Victoria to Andrew Lloyd Webber have tried their hand. Thanks to the folks at Requiem for You, you no longer have to be an aristocrat to find and […]
Archives for April 2008
The difference between ”feeling” and reality
Security technologist Bruce Schneier offers a useful distinction in Wired between feeling secure and actually being secure. His focus is on how the gulf between the two approaches has distorted our national security policy, and our own life choices. But his point is directly relevant to larger decision-making issues, as well. Says Schneier: …there are […]
”Business-like” is not the problem
Justin Macdonnell offers up the latest salvo in the perennial push-back against ”business” thinking in arts and culture organizations. It’s a topic that lives at the center of my working life (directing, as I do, an MBA degree in arts administration). And it’s a question to which I continually try to bring clarity, nuance, and […]
What I know about you
When we do our work in the actual world, it’s striking how much feedback we receive. Every sense can find some evidence of our actions and the reactions to them: we hear the sound of our voice, see the reactions of those we’re speaking to, sense the acoustics of the space around us, feel the […]