Yearly Archives: 2023
Andrew Litton Talks About Conducting For Ballet
It’s very hard to explain to musicians who don’t know ballet, but “One” is everything to a dancer — even though it may have...
A “Pre-Colonial” Africa Never Existed
The concept of ‘precolonial’ anything hides, it never discloses; it obscures, it never illuminates; it does not aid understanding in any manner, shape or...
How Will Women Conductors Change The Culture Of Conducting?
What is authority as it pertains to conducting? If music itself cannot be gendered, why has the conductor’s role been gendered? - Aeon
Nazi Loot Claim On Van Gogh Worth $250 Million
In 1987 the work was auctioned for £25m, but the heirs of the German Jewish banker Paul von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, who owned it until the...
The Imelda Marcos-David Byrne-Fatboy Slim Immersive Disco Musical Is Coming To Broadway
"Here Lies Love will be produced in the fully immersive, mostly standing-room format that was an essential element in its world premiere engagement ......
Studies: How Making Theatre Helps You Think
Theater involves “active learning” — getting up on your feet to take in information, rather than merely sitting at a desk. “When you put...
Lessons From Hamline University: Who’s Really In Charge?
Does academic freedom really only mean as much freedom as your most sensitive students can stand, and the careers of scholars in the hands of students...
Studying Conducting Is Very Expensive — Except In This L.A. Garage
"The Los Angeles Conducting Co-op is a new organization founded by violinist and producer Lisa Liu, conductor Christopher Rountree and violist, curator and broadcaster...
We Sometimes Forget How Words Evolve
Sentence structure aside, so much of the challenge posed by James’s prose is that words often had different meanings around the turn of the...
Kevin Spacey Pleads Not Guilty To Latest Counts Of Sexual Assault In London
"The hearing focused on additional charges brought against Spacey in November, including three ... of indecent assault, three of sexual assault and one of...
Lessons From Hamline University’s Firing Of An Art History Lecturer
Standing up for a religious minority’s right to exist, believe, and worship freely does not mean leaving all your other values at the door,...
The “Romeo And Juliet” Lawsuit: “Paramount, Don’t Pay Them One Thin Dime”
"(Olivia) Hussey has spent the last 50 years not just telling the story of how the nude scene came to be shot, but defending...
Will AI Robots Narrating Audiobooks Put Human Narrators Out Of Work?
That's certainly the worry professional audiobook readers have, and there's also the worry that someone's voice will be sampled without their consent. Yet, writes...
Tamara Rojo’s New Plan For San Francisco Ballet
"She is already eyeing possible significant changes, like negotiating a more flexible venue-sharing arrangement with the San Francisco Opera. ... That would allow the...
The Most Popular Podcast Genre? Comedy (And News Is No Longer Number Two)
"Edison Research's quarterly analysis of the top genres shows Comedy continues to have the most listeners. The bigger surprise could be that despite the...
Brasilia’s Modernist Architecture May Have Helped Stymie The Bolsonarista Rioters
"(The Brazilian capital's) proportions can render political action strangely inert. … It is an otherworldly landscape of red earth, open grass and enormous roadways...
The Bolsonarista Rioters Ruined A Lot More Artwork Than We’d Realized
"(Damages) go far beyond the shattered glass on the exteriors of the presidential palace, Congress and Supreme Court, all architectural icons. Modernist furniture was...
Discovered: Independent Written Record Of The Biblical King David
"The Mesha Stele ... is a basalt stone slab that has provided historians and linguists with the largest source of the Moabite language to...
City Of Leeds Embarks On Its Own Year Of Culture After Brexit Killed Its...
Leeds 2023 is the “unofficial” city of culture. The city’s official bid to be European capital of culture began about a decade ago but was dashed...
Florida College Goes To War With DeSantis After Governor Appoints New Oversight
In a tweet, Christopher Rufo said the group will seek to a create a new core curriculum, “abolish ‘diversity, equity, and inclusion’ and replace it...
NYC’s Shed Restructures Its Leadership
“It has become more and more clear to me that, to really take us on to the next chapter, I need to dedicate my...
Oregon Shakespeare Festival Loses Top Leadership And Will Restructure
OSF has recently been trying to offset deficits from the pandemic’s impact, including reducing its number of shows each season, shortening its calendar for...
Mellon Foundation Picks A New Arts Program Officer
Stephanie Ybarra joins Mellon following her tenure as Artistic Director of Baltimore Center Stage, where she broke ground as the country’s first Latina artistic...
The Great Unheralded Wits Of Social Media? State Agencies
Washington State Dept. of Natural Resources: "Update: The Twitter wildfire is at 44 billion acres and 0% contained." NE Ohio Regional Sewer District: "now...
What Daniel Barenboim Accomplished In Berlin
In Berlin, the former-musical-prodigy-turned-artistic-director increasingly became a cultural politician. In keeping with his self-image, he found his equals at the federal (rather than the...
