Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Period Instruments: Experiencing Chopin On One Of Chopin’s Pianos
Pianos made in the 18th and 19th century were simpler, lighter and smaller than modern instruments, with narrower keys and lighter strings. The result...
Detroit Opera’s Experiments In John Cage
The original production featured 64 arias, stripped of their original context and set against a collage of other materials in ways that could be...
The Oldest Oscar Nominee: John Williams And His 54 Nominations
Even though he’s not ready to surrender the staff-lined paper and pencil with which he’s written his scores, Williams, 92, is also the oldest...
UK Government’s New Support For The Arts
The chancellor has given Britain’s creative industries a boost, including £26.4m to help the National Theatre upgrade its stages and tax relief to encourage film-makers to...
Finding The Differences Between “Natural” Intelligence And “Artificial” Intelligence
“What separates natural from artificial forces? Does natural intelligence end where I think something to myself, silently, alone? How about using a notebook or...
Cleveland Institute Of Music Faculty Vote No-Confidence In School Leadership
Faculty senate of the Cleveland Institute of Music voted overwhelmingly in favor of a motion of no-confidence in its president, Paul Hogle, and provost,...
New Help For Creative Industries IN UK Budget
The new permanent rate covering theatres, museums and galleries - 45% for touring productions and 40% for non-touring shows - is below the current...
Netflix Is Back On Top. How?
How did Netflix defend its bulwark when there are still multiple streaming services fighting for eyeballs? - Los Angeles Times
How Schoenberg’s Ideas About Music Shaped Movies
Film composers have taken up serialism as an important technique, employing this to yield a high degree of dissonance and ethereal sounds. - The Conversation
How American Outsider In Popular Media Shaped Our Culture
As we entered the new millennium, three daring TV series remade the television landscape, and they all featured a new breed of outsider: lawless,...
Can Literature Shape Law?
What does it mean to credit the written word with such capacious potencies, to charge it with such real-world responsibilities? And how is literature,...
Architect Turns To Local Materials, Builds Schools That Stay Cool In 100+-Degree Heat
“We don’t need air conditioning, which is an incredible energy saving." Temperatures in this region of the world remain at about 40C (104F) during...
Paris’ Own Outlaw Street Artist — The French Banksy
Like Banksy, the British street artist he is sometimes likened to, Invader is elusive, fiercely protective of his anonymity and operating on the margins of...
Architect Antoine Predock, 87
In a 65-plus-year career, he sought to create buildings that were, as he often put it, “grounded in the earth yet soaring toward the...
Annals Of Bad AI Ads: This Orchestra Ad Imagines A Fake Audience
“Want to do something different this Saturday? Come see an orchestra play,” reads the ad. It was apparently created by someone who has never seen...
Texas Public Radio Pioneering Leader Dies At 66
Joyce Slocum was instrumental in TPR’s growth from an organization of modest size and ambition to one whose reach and influence is recognized nationwide,...
Here’s What Happened When Chicago’s Public Radio Merged With The Sun-Times Newspaper
Now deep into the five-year grant, the combined newsrooms reach 2.8 million readers and listeners; newsletter subscriptions total 760,500; and the Sun-Times’ pageviews increased...
Artists Warn Censorship Is Rising
Censorship is on the rise globally, say artists and art professionals: two groups that carry the unofficial but historic burden of speaking truth to...
State Of Texas Took Over Houston Schools. Now School Libraries Are Being Emptied
According to circulation data from the Houston Independent school district, the number of books checked out per student at NES schools dwindled to nearly zero compared...
Why The EU’s Fine For Apple Is Important
“This decision sends a powerful message — no company, not even a monopoly like Apple, can wield power abusively to control how other companies...
Why Public Radio Has Struggled To Diversify Its Audience And Not Succeeded
None of these efforts moved the audience measurement needle, in most cases because they didn’t sufficiently address the primary cause of audience — the...
Losing Your Mind? Forgetting Is Part Of The Design For How Memory Works
“The problem isn’t your memory, it’s that we have the wrong expectations for what memory is for in the first place. Severe memory loss is...
Apple Is Fined $2 Billion By The EU Over Access To App Subscriptions To...
The European Commission, the EU’s executive body, said it found the company violated antitrust rules by restricting app developers from telling users about alternative...
It’s Musicians Who Are Getting Hurt By The TikTok Music Ban
“TikTok is how you get the word out about a new song — and now you’re muting someone’s entire catalog? The labels say TikTok...
UK Backs Down, Grants Visas To Afghan Youth Orchestra Musicians
The band of 47 exiled musicians aged between 14 and 22 had been working for months on their repertoire for the shows, which are...
