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English National Opera Gets A One-Year, £11.46 Million Funding Reprieve
"Arts Council England said it would invest national lottery funding in the company until March 2024 to 'sustain a programme of work at the...
Archaeologists Say They’ve Uncovered The World’s Oldest Runestone
"The flat, square block of brownish sandstone has carved scribbles, which … are up to 2,000 years old. … Older runes have been found...
Hawaii Symphony Appoints Its First Music Director In A Decade
Dane Lam, a Chinese-Australian who currently holds positions with Opera Queensland and the Xi'an Symphony Orchestra in China, is the first music director at...
Louisiana Philharmonic Names Matthew Kraemer Music Director
Starting in July, Kraemer, currently music director of the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra, will succeed Carlos Miguel Prieto, who is leaving New Orleans after 17...
St. Louis Symphony Prepares For Major Expansion Of Powell Hall
"The $100 million renovation kicks off this spring, with a groundbreaking on the expansion beginning in March. The 65,000-square-foot expansion will include a new...
The Dance Data Project Moves Beyond Collecting Data On Women Leaders In Dance
"Intended to help address the gender and racial barriers that prevent women from securing leadership positions, the free online program "Raising the Barre: Curriculum...
How Filmmaker Alica Diop Turned A Sensational Trial Into The Oscar-Nominated “Saint-Omer”
"When the French director Alice Diop attended the trial of Fabienne Kabou, a woman who left her 15-month-old daughter on a beach to drown,...
Michael R. Jackson, Writer-Composer Of “A Strange Loop”, On The Show’s Success And The...
"The more that I've reflected on it, it really makes sense to me that A Strange Loop would be a supernova that cuts across...
A Poisonous Issue: Repatriation Of Some Artifacts Is Delayed For Decontamination
"Across Europe and North America, museums are waking up to an ethical dilemma. The widespread historical use of pesticides means objects in their storage...
“Power Is Genderless”: Cate Blanchett Answers Back To Marin Alsop’s Criticism Of “Tár”
"I don't think you could have talked about the corrupting nature of power in as nuanced away as Todd Field has done as a...
Gen Z Is Really Starting To Get Into Classical Music
"There are plenty of reasons for this, from the playlist culture spawned by streaming platforms … to the solace it provided during the pandemic....
The Smithsonian Is Restoring 300 Of The World’s Oldest Sound Recordings
"Now, the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History has announced a new project: restoring hundreds of never-before-heard sound recordings made by Bell and his...
Plácido Domingo Faces New Accusation Of Sexual Misconduct
Speaking on Spanish television — in shadow, voice electronically altered — a female singer alleged that, roughly two decades ago, Domingo on one occasion...
Two Libraries In Colorado Close Due To Meth Contamination
Public library branches in Boulder and Englewood, a Denver suburb, were closed to the public for several days after tests found methamphetamine on surfaces...
Art Institute of Chicago’s Former Payroll Manager Indicted For Embezzling $2 Million
"In his role as payroll manager, (Michael) Maurello had access to make direct deposits. But between 2007 and 2020, he disguised payments to make...
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 ......
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...
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...
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...
