Yearly Archives: 2023
How Michael Tilson Thomas Carries On
The conductor survived brain cancer surgery and has been conducting at a furious clip - but he's also been "trying to dig out his...
Hugo Ball Prize Halted As Organizers Address The Artist’s Antisemitism
The prize, named for the influential German Dadaist, was awarded - but at the request of artist winner Hito Steyerl, and agreement of writing...
Publisher Withdraws Coloring Book Based On Popular Novel About Domestic Abuse
No, not even Colleen Hoover's popularity can win this one. "The coloring book, which was set to be published by Atria, was, according to...
Riverdance’s Michael Flatley Diagnosed With An Aggressive Cancer
The long-heralded "Lord of the Dance" (who retired in 2016) once had his feet insured for $30 million, at the height of the traditional...
The Wait For Prince Harry’s Memoir Stretches Into Years At Libraries
At Orange County, the wait is more than 55 weeks (or was when the article was written, as "more than 700 people are on...
Some Historical Fiction Is Only Kinda Based On A True-ish Story
And lawsuits are quick to follow. - The New York Times
How To Win A Literary Prize (Hint: It’s Rigged)
The game is rigged. It is rigged like capitalism is rigged. There is no puppet master, no conspiracy, only a field where advantages, to...
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...
