Yearly Archives: 2023
A Conversation With The Vienna Philharmonic’s First Woman Concertmaster
She noted that the increasing sense of equality has also heightened competition. “Even more than in the past, one’s achievement is what counts,” she...
Where Will You Find The World’s Largest Dickens Festival? The Netherlands.
"Despite no known historical connection with the author, Deventer, in the eastern province of Overijssel, now plays host to … 950 volunteers … performing...
Mongolia’s Dilapidated Circus School Is Training Star Acrobats For The World (But Not For...
"'We are wanted all over the world, but we can’t even properly train in our own country,' said Gerelbaatar Yunden, a former acrobat and...
Post-COVID, Two New York City Performance Venues Use Design To Bring People Together
Los Angeles Times design columnist Carolina A. Miranda looks at how, despite exteriors that can seem intimidating, the new Perelman Performing Arts Center near...
The World’s Arts And Culture Agencies Give A Report On 2023
Based in Australia, the International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies represents public institutions from around the world whose mandate is to support...
2023 Was Disney’s Centennial Year. Why Was It Such A Flop?
"Pundits have been puzzling over the Mouse House’s annus horribilis for weeks, identifying several factors. A key one being that the COVID-19 pandemic got...
Mezzo-Soprano Mildred Miller, One Of The Met’s Great Interpreters Of “Trouser Roles,” Is Dead...
One of the Met's stalwarts of the 1950s and '60s (especially as Cherubino and Octavian), she performed so many male mezzo parts that her...
Banksy Put Up A New Artwork. It Took Half An Hour For Thieves To...
At noon last Friday. the anonymous street artist posted on social media that he'd installed a new piece — a stop sign with three...
The Most Scathing Book Reviews Of 2023
Among the books being flung into the fiery pit this time around: Walter Isaacson’s “dull, insight-free doorstop” biography of Elon Musk; Paris Hilton’s “vapid...
Fear Not The Deepfakes. They Arise From A Long Tradition
There is "value of parody and satire in human communication. This is a very old format for making a social critique, often used quite...
The “Santa Claus Symphony” That Riled Classical Music Fans
At the center of the melée was William Henry Fry, a widely traveled composer and critic whose lectures on music drew sold-out crowds, and who...
Lessons From The Ransomware Attack On The British Library
“It is difficult to tell the nature of this attack but it is a symptomatic of a significant challenge globally to protect critical...
The Fight For New Music
Concert programmers and soloists who wish to stray from the beaten concerto path must often summon their powers of persuasion to get new and...
Minnesota Picks 24-Year-Old Artist’s Design For New State Flag
The image at the centre of the 1893 design—depicting a pioneer with a rifle, a farmer and a Native American on horseback with a...
How Jewish Immigrant Irving Berlin Created A Christmas Song That All Americans Could Embrace
"This was a new kind of Christmas carol. It didn't mention the birth of Jesus, angels or wise men." Bing Crosby sang it in...
Movies Are Becoming More And More A Global Business (A Trend Accelerated By The...
I think that we’ve always been an international industry, but the pandemic has really illuminated that fact in some ways, both in physical production,...
How “Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas” Was Transformed From Morbid Movie Dirge Into...
The original lyrics written for the film Meet Me in St. Louis began "Have yourself a merry little Christmas / It may be your...
Why Christmas Panto Is Big Business
For many Brits, panto is their first experience in the theater. For some, it’s their only experience. It’s woven into the fabric of the...
A Pioneer Of Drag Queen Story Hour Launches Her Own Publishing Imprint
In 1998, Michelle Tea, who started the first series of events called "Drag Queen Story Hour," published her first novel with Semiotext(e), publisher of...
Josh Kosman: 2023 Classical Music Highlights Dominated By New Music
“New” is the key factor here. In compiling my best-of list for the year gone by — a list that has now swollen year-over-year from...
Ozy, The Defunct News Site That Wildly Inflated Reader Numbers, Sues Semafor And Ben...
"The shell of Carlos Watson's Ozy Media (has) filed a lawsuit against Semafor co-founder Ben Smith, his news site and his former outlet, BuzzFeed,...
Donald Runnicles Appointed Chief Conductor Of Dresden Philharmonic
The orchestra said that Runnicles will take up the post in the 2025-26 season and will lead the Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra as Chief Conductor Designate from...
An Afghan Radio Scriptwriter On The Day The Taliban Forced Her To Stop Working
"After our family tea, I remembered to switch on my phone. I saw a notification from my office WhatsApp group. My hands trembled as...
As Paramount Looks To Merge With Warner Bros. Discovery, It Gets A Bid To...
Paramount Global planned to sell the Black-oriented cable network earlier this year but backed off after deciding that the purchase offers were too low....
Francesco Ventriglia Appointed Artistic Director Of Calgary’s Alberta Ballet
The Italian-born choreographer was a principal at La Scala Ballet, created works for that company's ballet school, and founded his own company, Heliopolis, before...
