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In Search Of The Ingredients Of A Hit Christmas Tune
"The Guardian took every Christmas song that had charted in the UK Top 100 since 1952, and selected the 100 most popular of those...
New Zealand’s Arts Funding Agency, Mired In Controversy, To Review Its Entire Operation
"(Creative New Zealand) has, over the last several months, found itself (in) multiple controversial decisions, including declining funding applications for ... the Shakespeare Globe...
A Brief History Of Nativity Scenes And Crèches
The Gospels don't really tell much about the birth of Jesus: the shepherds are only in Luke, the Wise Men only in Matthew. So...
The Dance Data Project Looks At The Gender Balance In Leadership Changes In 2022
"(This report) details changes among artistic directors, executive directors, associate artistic directors, and resident choreographers at dance venues, ballet companies, contemporary/modern companies, and prominent...
It’s The Centennial Of “Carol Of The Bells,” Ukraine’s World-Famous Christmas Tune
"That complicated history of 'Carol of the Bells' has embodied a grim motif since its inception. ... Then as now, Ukraine was under threat...
A Battle In Sarasota Over Whether To Build A New Performing Arts Center Or...
"Members of the Van Wezel Foundation have been working with Sarasota officials on plans for a new performance space, arguing that the 54-year-old Van...
Atlanta Ballet Eliminates Its Low-Paying Apprentice Program And Will Expand Its Corps Instead
"Going forward, entry-level dancers who pass the main company audition will start as full company members, earning entry-level pay based on a collective-bargaining-agreement scale....
Nielsen, The Ratings Company, Is Splitting Itself In Three
The private equity group which purchased Nielsen last March is reorganizing into three divisions: Nielsen Audience Measurement, Nielsen Analytics and Gracenote. The company, once...
Stanley Drucker, Revered Clarinetist Of New York Philharmonic, Is Dead At 93
"(He) was known as the dean of American orchestral clarinetists during a 60-year career with the New York Philharmonic, ... presenting a style and...
The Art And Skill Of A Master Audiobook Narrator
"(Robin Miles) has been the voice of the Antiguan American novelist Jamaica Kincaid, the Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the Russian journalist Yelena Khanga,...
The “Berlin Snout”: The Dialect, And Attitude, That Make Berliners The Philadelphians Of Germany
"On paper, Berliner Schnauze is simply a dialect of German spoken in and around Berlin. In reality, it's a visceral dialect merged with working-class...
Going Totally Retro: An English Teenager Sets Up A Celluloid-Only Movie Theatre
"While studying for his A-levels (in 2019), Joe Cornick undertook a project close to his heart. He wanted to recreate a retro cinema utilising...
Opera Australia’s New Artistic Director Breaks Another Glass Ceiling
"Welsh-born Jo Davies, 52, an award-winning director of opera, theatre and musical theatre in the UK, Europe and North America, will join Opera Australia...
So Who Were The Two Mysterious Men Whose Coffins Were Discovered Under Notre-Dame De...
Earlier this year, in the course of the post-fire reconstruction, researchers found two unfamiliar sarcophagi under the cathedral's floor. Now researchers have partly identified...
Here Are Half A Dozen Dance Companies Who Are Thriving Despite The Field’s Post-Pandemic...
"Now expenses are high, earned income from ticket sales is limited, touring remains complicated and budget deficits loom large. Against these odds, a few...
A Tally Of Cultural Sites In Ukraine Destroyed Or Damaged By Russian Attacks
"Since the invasion in February, The New York Times's Visual Investigations team has been tracking evidence of cultural destruction across Ukraine. ... These documented...
Garth Drabinsky Adds Antitrust Claims To His Countersuit Against Actos’ Equity Over “Paradise Square”
"This summer, Actors' Equity Association filed lawsuits against a Paradise Square producing entity in both state and federal court. ... After those lawsuits were...
Did Britain’s National Gallery Just Completely Botch A Painting Restoration?
Oh, no, not another Beast Jesus! Piero della Francesca's The Nativity (ca. 1470-75) is back on display after three years with the conservators. There's...
What’s In The New Actors’ Equity Broadway Contract
"(The just-ratified agreement) provides pay increases for those working on Broadway and, in a move prompted by the coronavirus pandemic, allows producers to make...
Here’s One Country Where Putin-Supporting Russian Performers Are Still Invited
"While artists identifying with the Russian president are boycotted all over the world, the gates remain open for them in Israel – and these...
An Ancient Grammar Mystery Is Solved, Clarifying A 2,500-Year-Old “Language Machine”
In ancient India, the grammarian Pāṇini developed a set of rules that basically constitute an algorithm, allowing any word or phrase to be coined...
How Allen Ginsberg Caused Gail Collins To Organize A Pro-Gay Rights, Anti-Censorship Rally In...
The future New York Times columnist met the Beat poet and invited him to come to her college to speak. Then the dean of...
Herbert Deutsch, Co-Inventor Of The Moog Synthesizer, Is Dead At 90
"(He) collaborated with engineer Robert Moog in the 1960s to invent a portable synthesizer that revolutionized the sound of rock, classical and other forms...
How On Earth Do These People Improvise A Shakespeare-Style Play On The Spot?
That's exactly what the five-member Improvised Shakespeare Company does: take a suggestion from an audience member and invent an entire play, complete with tragedy,...
Rare Early Self-Portrait Of Cézanne Discovered Underneath Still Life
Cincinnati Museum of Art chief conservator Serena Urry was inspecting the artist's Still Life with Bread and Eggs this past spring when she saw...
