Yearly Archives: 2023
A Statistical Profile Of Artists In Ontario
The 81,800 professional artists who reside in Ontario account for 40% of the 202,900 artists in Canada. As a percentage of the overall labour...
This Season, The Living And The Dead Create Theater Together
"Musicals can be shotgun weddings, their authors joined by necessity, not love. But in most cases, they're at least both breathing. Not so this...
Model Collapse? Spotify Is Desperate To Find New Ways To Charge Subscribers
The company is on the hunt for anything it can do to get users to pay up. After pouring billions into podcasts and audiobooks...
Two Years After A Stroke, Choreographer Ronald K. Brown Is On The Road To...
"'At one point I couldn't move my left leg at all, and my therapist told me, just move it on a molecular level.' It...
The Smithsonian’s Natural History Museum Has A Human Remains Problem
The Natural History Museum has at least 30,700 human bones and other body parts. Responding to The Post’s reporting, Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie G. Bunch...
A Rock Writer Watches The Gestation Of Carlos Acosta’s Black Sabbath Ballet
"While others try to persuade me that Acosta is a diehard Sabbath fan, he's a little more careful. He's Cuban, and Sabbath meant nothing...
The Myths Around One Of The Greatest of Native American Basket-Weavers
The Nevada businessman who sold the baskets in the early 1900s said they were made by a Washoe princess named Dat So La Lee....
Can The New York State Summer School Of The Arts Be Saved?
"For thousands of New York high schoolers without access to comprehensive arts education, the New York State Summer School of the Arts isn't just...
For Its 50th Anniversary, The Classical Label BIS Is Acquired By Apple
Founder Robert von Bahr says the label's staff will join the team working on Apple Classical, the streaming app launched earlier this year. BIS...
Meet The First Executive Director Of The New San Antonio Philharmonic
Roberto Treviño: "We finished the first season in the black. We did that without any city support and with a lot of things lined...
Warner Bros. Discovery Says Strikes Will Cost It Half A Billion Dollars
"The company said in a regulatory filing that it now expects 2023 adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization to be between $10.5...
Composer Gloria Coates, 89
Known especially for the use of glissando, "(she) composed 17 symphonies, along with numerous works for small ensembles and voice, … pieces that were...
Research: Our Brains May Sort Memories By Practical Necessity
A new theory proposes the brain sorts memories by how likely they are to be useful as guides in the future. Memories of predictable...
Donald Runnicles Steps Down From Leading Berlin’s Deutsche Oper
Runnicles was appointed Music Director in 2007 and began his tenure in 2009. He extended his contract in 2016 and in 2020 extended it...
Aesthetics And The Dispassionate Observer
All of us experience aesthetic properties when we’re not in a condition to fully appreciate them because we are tired or distracted. Yet the...
How The TV Industry Was Broken By Streaming
Streaming provided an explosion of opportunity at first, but profits dried up along with the pool of potential subscribers. The dual strike is happening...
Writers Condemn Use Of Misleading Book Blurb Quotes On Jordan Peterson Book
On 15 August, prominent writers criticised the way their reviews had been quoted on the back cover of the paperback edition of Peterson’s book,...
Bradley Cooper’s “Leonard Bernstein” Biopic Gets A Big Greeting At The Venice Film Festival
Bradley Cooper’s long-awaited second film as director — screened at the Venice Film Festival to rapturous applause. The drama about the life of legendary stage composer...
Here’s One Regional Theater Company That’s Doing Very Well Indeed. What’s Its Secret?
"Santa Cruz Shakespeare … hit 114% of its box-office goal for the year before its summer season even finished. And its 2024 lineup expands...
Confessions Of A Netflix DVD-Holdout
"I stream plenty of movies, and listen to most of my music on Spotify. The real reason I stuck it out was the queue....
A Look Inside The BBC Singers, The Hardest-Working Choir In Britain
"In the last couple of weeks, we've done everything from synthy backing vocals to full-blooded Poulenc; we have opera choruses coming in the Last...
Politics Is Fracturing The Close-Knit Country Music Community
“Politics has to cool off, but I don’t know if that changes anytime soon. It’s a bummer. Now we feel like any other genre,...
Gaza Is Chock-Full Of Antiquities. Keeping Them Safe Is An Enormous Challenge.
"Valuable items can be seized by Hamas … or sold by smugglers. There is little funding and equipment to adequately excavate or maintain historical...
Cable Company Admits Cable TV Business Is Broken
Cable TV has become too expensive for consumers and providers, Charter Communications said in an 11-page presentation to investors on Friday, adding that cord-cutters...
“The Floor Is Moving!” The Challenges Of Performing Ballet On A Cruise
"The dancers on this unusual summer voyage" — English National Ballet was performing in the 1,000-seat theater aboard the Queen Mary 2 last month...
