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Iván Fischer Appointed Music Director Of European Union Youth Orchestra
The 73-year-old Hungarian conductor, founder and director of the Budapest Festival Orchestra, succeeds Vasily Petrenko, who has just completed a ten-year term. Fischer begins...
How One Author Found The Right Audio Narrator For His Book
Michael Andor Brodeur, whose day job is classical music critic for The Washington Post, was relieved when informed he would not be recording the...
Dancers Fired By Syracuse City Ballet Win “Vindicating” Settlement
"The settlement, which includes back pay and an apology, … came after the National Labor Relations Board ruled recently that the Syracuse City Ballet...
French Critic Sues Theatremaker Who Mocked Him Onstage And Mooned Audience
Stéphane Capron from radio station France Inter filed a defamation claim against Spanish actor-director Angélica Liddell after she read one of his reviews aloud,...
CNN Is Laying Off 100 Staffers As Part of Overhaul Of Online Operations
"CEO Mark Thompson outlined his digital vision in a lengthy memo to staff Wednesday morning, announcing plans to build a flurry of digital products....
How The Big Celebrity Book Clubs Really Work
"Not once did I catch a whiff that (Reese) Witherspoon, (Jenna Bush) Hager, (Oprah) Winfrey, or any of the other celebrities are not die-hard...
Some Of Alice Munro’s Associates Knew About Her Husband’s Sexual Abuse Of Her Daughter
Said Munro biographer Robert Thacker, "I knew that it was going to come out, and I knew that I would be having conversations like...
Cellist Antonio Meneses Reveals Stage Four Brain Cancer Diagnosis, Cancels Engagements
The Brazilian cellist has been diagnosed with glioblastoma multiforme, the same cancer that struck conductor Michael Tilson Thomas in 2022. Meneses has withdrawn from...
Lin-Manuel Miranda’s At Work On His Next Musical: “The Warriors”
As was the original plan with Hamilton, and as happened with Here Lies Love, The Who's Tommy, and Evita, the show — an adaptation...
Angry Barcelonans Shoot Tourists With Water Pistols
Thousands of protestors furious about the ills of overtourism marched down La Rambla and other areas of the city popular with visitors, accosting vacationers...
For The Second Time In A Week, A Controversial Statue Of A Woman Has...
Seven days after someone in Austria decapitated a sculpture of the Virgin Mary giving birth, a vandal took advantage of Hurricane Beryl's strike on...
“The Era Of Culture Wars Is Over,” Says UK’s New Culture Secretary
Lisa Nandy: "For too long, for too many people, the story we tell ourselves, about ourselves as a nation, has not reflected them, their...
Ex-Cop In New Orleans Indicted For Art Theft Insurance Fraud
"The indictment alleges that Christian Claus, 55, falsely claimed valuable paintings were stolen from his New Orleans residence in order to collect insurance money....
Alexander Knaifel, One Of Russia’s Leading Post-Soviet Composers, Is Dead At 80
"Knaifel was one of the most prominent Russian composers of his generation, both at home and in the West. He played a key role...
After Half A Century Of Delays, A Contemporary Art Museum Opens In Milan
"The Brera Modern will be inaugurated this fall, 52 years and 39 Italian governments after it was first envisioned. The new museum, just a...
America’s Small Independent Presses Build Back After Their Major Distributor Collapsed
"A little more than three months after Small Press Distribution abruptly closed, leaving some 400 independent presses without a trade distributor, publishers and distributors...
Philadelphia Plans A $100 Million Makeover Of The Avenue Of The Arts
The project will include traffic-calming measures, new street fixtures and lots of lush plantings. The goal: "To get more people excited about South Broad...
Russian Playwright And Director Sentenced To Six Years For “Justifying Terrorism”
Prosecutors charged director Yevgeniya Berkovich and writer Svetlana Petriychuk over their 2021 play Finist the Brave Falcon, a cautionary tale about Russian women who...
Afghan Women Do Online What The Taliban Won’t Let Them Do In Real Life
Barred from high school and college, they attend online classes, learn foreign languages with chatbots and e-books, and trade cryptocurrencies hoping for financial independence....
His Saudi Cartoon Series Was A Hit. Even As He Was Publicly Celebrated, He...
As the conservative kingdom loosened up, Abdulaziz Almuzaini's show Masameer (often likened to South Park) got a fan base and he was feted as...
What David Devan Leaves Behind After 13 Years Running Opera Philadelphia
"The Devan era had its shortcomings. … But (they) shouldn’t overshadow (his) central accomplishment: He took an undernourished, traditional opera company, set in motion...
Willem Dafoe Is The Next Director Of Theatre At The Venice Biennale
"The Biennale’s theater department was founded in 1934, following the establishment of its art, music and cinema branches. Its previous directors include Renato Simoni,...
John Neumeier Concludes His 51 Years Directing Hamburg Ballet
"Neumeier is 85, which might seem like a decent age to retire. But choosing to go was difficult for him. 'It was a rational...
Mollywood, The Thinking Person’s Bollywood
The Malayalam-language film industry, based in the state of Kerala in India's far southwest, never went in for the mythological films or song-dance-melodrama extravaganzas...
The Occupational Injuries Of Ancient Egyptian Scribes
"Just as modern-day government workers suffer neck and spinal injuries from sitting at desks and arching forward to stare at screens, ancient Egyptian scribes...
