Yearly Archives: 2021
Finally: More Money, Resources For Black Theatre?
In the last seven months, there has been a groundswell of support for Black-owned businesses and nonprofits that are focused on specifically and directly...
Why We Have Difficulty Trusting Science
Precisely the same methods, and precisely the same leaps of brilliance and faith that led in some cases to science that has withstood the...
Claim: The COVID Shutdown Has Revolutionized And Democratized Theatre
"The result is a worldwide swarm of approaches that have profoundly opened up the possibilities of the form, most likely for good. The word...
Composer Gets No Play Until She Puts Her Music Out Under Male Pseudonym
A change of name it all started to click. After adopting the pseudonym Arthur Parker her pieces were getting the airplay she had struggled...
Everyone’s Pivoting – Here’s What’s Relevant To Classical Music
According to Eric Ries, author of The Lean Startup, there are ten different kinds of pivots. At least six out of them are relevant...
1,000-Year-Old Murals Identified In German Cathedral
"A series of frescoes showing the life and death of John the Baptist in the cathedral of the Bavarian city of Augsburg have been...
Reimagine Yourself
The failure to lift our eyes and see that our core work can and should be connecting people with art is the principal source...
Documentary: Could It Be Years Before Big Music Festivals Return?
"If, like me, you happened to watch the documentary mere hours after hearing that statement, the Glastonbury scene took on a whole different kind...
COVID Has Shown Us That Theatre Is Too Dependent On Its Buildings
Lyn Gardner: "At their best, are creative powerhouses, community hubs, a place of inspiration, succour and sanctuary. But often they come with self-perpetuating,...
How A Bad Joke Ended Up In Canada’s Top Court
Comedian Mike Ward made a bad joke about a teenager with a disability back in 2010. The victim sued and the case is now...
Jorge Morel, Classical Guitarist And Composer, Dead At 89
" added a vast repertoire to his instrument and performed to packed concerts around the world. … In between classical concerts, Mr. Morel paid...
To Understand The Problems With Big Tech Platforms We Need To Understand What’s At...
Harvesting data at scale makes us collectively vulnerable in ways that go beyond breaches of individual privacy. This is a new and nasty problem:...
‘A Thunderclap”, Says Publisher: Unknown Work By Proust Coming This Spring
"The texts in The Seventy-Five Pages were written in 1908, around the time Proust began working on In Search of Lost Time, which...
Music Critic Peter G. Davis, 84
He was longtime critic for New York Magazine. Peter was best known as an authority on opera — his 1997 book The American Opera...
‘Drenching Richness’: Alex Ross Revisits The Films Of Andrei Tarkovsky
Ross fell under the director's spell upon seeing Andrei Rublev in college. "The long pandemic months seemed a good time to burrow back into...
Black Dancers And Dance Companies Worry They Won’t Be Able To Survive Pandemic
Broadway dancer NaTonia Monét says that, even when theaters finally start up again, "you have your few Black shows that come along, but other...
Keeping Up Live Performance As The World Goes Virtual
"We have a total commitment to live performance. That's what we do. We're not a film company," says the director of the Annenberg Center...
Santa Fe Opera Hires New Boss With New Title
With the previous artistic director, Alexander Neef (who was shared with the Canadian Opera Co.), having left for the Paris Opera, Santa Fe decided...
Johnny Pacheco, Giant Of Latin Jazz And Salsa, Dead At 85
"Pacheco, a Juilliard-trained multi-instrumentalist who'd found success recording with his band, Pacheco y Su Charanga, sparked a musical revolution when, in 1964, he met...
Here’s What A British Musician Now Has To Go Through To Work In Europe
While the UK was in the EU, a British musician could pretty much just accept a gig and go. Now she has to apply...
Italy’s Art Museums Emerge From Lockdown, And They Have Lessons For The Rest Of...
"'We are now where you will be in a few days,' wrote novelist Francesca Melandri in a piece for the Guardian newspaper in late...
How A Young Pianist Learns About The Liszt Sonata From Historic Recordings
“I almost feel like you should know the notable recordings of a work like this,” Benjamin Grosvenor said of the sonata in a recent...
The Line Between Audiobook And Theatrical Play
"When different narrators take on chapters devoted to different characters’ points of view, the listener’s engagement with the book can be heightened. On the...
Was Some Of Ravel’s Best Music The Product Of A Brain Disorder?
“Think of it like traffic. There’s the language road, there’s the music road, there’s the seeing road, there’s the images road. Language is like...
The Problem With Museums
"If the postmodernism of the 1980s considered the museum to be in crisis and contemplated its “ruins,” today many see these same institutions as...
