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Leonard Bernstein Wrote A String Quartet? Who Knew?
"Music for String Quartet was composed by an 18-year-old Bernstein in 1936 while he was at Harvard. You can tell, authenticators agree, from the...
Wheelchair Aerial Dance — With Barbed Wire (Oh, Yes, There’s Such A Thing)
Alice Sheppard of the disability dance company Kinetic Light: "It kind of made sense. If you're making a work about barbed wire, of course...
Britain, At Last, Gets A National LGBTQ Museum
The opening of Queer Britain at king's Cross in London, "is an important milestone for a minority that has only enjoyed widespread public acceptance...
Will Fort Worth End Public Arts Funding Altogether?
"People who work in the arts in (the Texas city) say City Manager David Cooke is seeking to gut funding for Arts Fort Worth...
Can An Old Industrial City In England’s Northeast Produce A Rival To The Edinburgh...
Culture officials in Newcastle envision an event with "the same spirit, vibe and inclusivity as the Edinburgh Fringe" but including art shows, concerts, and...
English National Opera’s Online Breathing Lessons Help Long-COVID Sufferers: Study
"The programme, developed with Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, is led by professional singers from the ENO and focuses on breathing retraining through singing...
Collapsing In Discord, The Children’s Chorus Of Greater Dallas Will Be Taken Over By...
"The announcement, made Tuesday, comes after several rancorous months at the 25-year-old children's chorus that saw hiring disputes with the chorus board, staff resignations...
Henry Winkler On What Acting Takes Out Of Him And Puts Back In
"All that stuff you squash, all that frustration, eventually you have to spoon it out, but then you're left with holes inside you. ......
A Paris Curator Is Auctioning Off Lalanne Sculptures To Help Pay For An Expansion...
"A trove of sculptures and objects by the design duo Claude and François-Xavier Lalanne are hitting the auction block at Sotheby's to help fund...
The Addictive Glory (Or Glorious Addictiveness) Of Word Puzzles
Oh, it goes way beyond Wordle (which, luckily, only lets us play once a day) and crosswords. A.J. Jacobs looks at the New York...
Scottish Ballet Develops A New Therapy Program For MS Patients
"The Orkney Islands has the highest prevalence of multiple sclerosis in the world – with one in 170 Orcadian women living with MS –...
Beyond The-Scottish-Play-Which-Shall-Not-Be-Named: Theatre Superstitions Continue To Thrive
Never wish an actor "Good luck." (That's why they say "Break a leg.") Never bring mirrors onstage. Don't wear green. (We didn't know about...
“Unprecedented”: Ancient Phoenician Burial Complex Discovered In Andalusia
"Archaeologists exploring the site – which was discovered amid the Roman ruins in the town of Osuna, 55 miles (90km) east of Seville –...
Pianist Alexander Toradze Suffers Heart Failure During Performance, Finishes Anyway
Toradze had been feeling ill most of last weekend and needed assistance to walk onstage Saturday night to play Stravinsky and Shostakovich with the...
If Florida Wants To Take Away Disney World’s Special Status, It Has To Pay...
"The Reedy Creek Improvement District claimed that dissolving the special tax district would violate a pledge (made) by Florida to bondholders under the law...
BBC To Sharply Reduce The Amount Of Programming It Produces
"Director General Tim Davie is preparing to announce deep cuts to BBC output in the coming week. ... The corporation estimates it needs to...
What Happened When People Who Hate The BBC License Fee Went Without Without All...
They changed their minds, of course: "70% of the households who initially wanted to pay nothing or less than the £159 ($200.54) per year...
Exquisitely Elongated Time In Noh Drama
"Attending a performance, the first thing you might notice is the way time itself immediately slows down and takes on a stretched-out quality. You...
The Native American Artist Who Insisted That Indians Get To Define Indian Art
The furious response that Yanktonai Dakota artist Oscar Howe wrote when rejected for the 1958 Philbrook Indian Annual competition because the abstract painting he...
How Sasha Waltz Choreographed A Semi-Improvised Analog To Terry Riley’s Semi-Improvised “In C”
Riley's landmark Minimalist score consists of 53 short phrases for an unspecified number of musicians, each of whom decides how long to repeat a...
One Of Turkey’s Most Important Arts Philanthropists Is Sentenced To Life In Prison
"The founder of the Istanbul nonprofit art center Anadolu Kültür and the creator of Depo Istanbul, an independent art space serving as a platform...
There’s Now An Entire American Right-Wing Comedy Ecosystem
They mostly (excepting Joe Rogan) fly beneath mainstream radar, but "rightwing satirists, podcasters and standups … feature on each other's podcasts, TV shows and...
In Which John McWhorter Discovers That New Classical Music Does Not Have To Be...
Oddly, the linguist/op-ed pundit, who's demonstrated genuine musical sophistication in previous columns, cites Korngold (d. 1957), Rozsa (d. 1995), and William Bolcom, but, besides...
California’s Two Biggest Classical Music Radio Stations Join Forces, Rebrand, And Refocus
KUSC in Los Angeles and KDFC in San Francisco, both now part of the KUSC Radio Group, have rebranded as Classical California, with simulcast...
Chicago Reader, The City’s Alt-Weekly, Can Now Become Nonprofit As Co-Owner Steps Away
"Leonard Goodman, a Chicago attorney and member of the billionaire Crown family, ... had demanded more representation on a nonprofit board set up to...
