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Soprano Carmen Balthrop Dead At 73
Part of the third generation of Black opera singers to become international stars, she performed throughout Europe and the US, achieving wide fame in...
Unknown Tennessee Williams Story Sees Print At Last
"Honored worldwide as a playwright, Williams also wrote dozens of short stories. A rarely seen piece, 'The Summer Woman,' set in Italy, appears...
Scaffolding At Stonehenge As First Repairs In 63 Years Get Underway
Workers will stabilize cracks and holes in the stones of the 4,500-year-old monument and will replace concrete mortar used in the 1958 repairs with...
San Antonio Symphony Management Demands To Slash Orchestra’s Size By 40%
In renegotiations for the final year (2021-22) of the current contract, management had proposed cutting salaries in half, down to $17,710 per year. Their...
After 35 Years, Chicago’s Goodman Theatre Artistic Director Robert Falls To Depart
" decision, which he said was not made under any kind of internal or outside pressure, brings the exit of Chicago theater's premier auteurist...
Jaap van Zweden To Leave New York Philharmonic In 2024
" announced that he would leave his post at the end of the 2023-24 season, saying that the pandemic had made him rethink his...
Britain Has A New Culture Secretary (And It Looks Like She’s A Doozy)
"Boris Johnson has appointed Nadine Dorries as culture secretary, giving a first Cabinet post to an outspoken MP who has previously accused the BBC...
This A Cappella Quintet Can Mimic Your Electronic Devices
"Traditional a cappella groups cover pop lyrics and full music beds with impressive skill. But one group in South Korea, called MayTree, is taking...
It’s Not Easy To Be Both A Professional Dancer And Religiously Observant
"By and large, the North American dance community is secular and leans politically to the left. For Orthodox Jews as well as some evangelical...
Why Short, Soft-Spoken, Fey Truman Capote Was So Popular With The Strong And Powerful
"In the beginning, they'd look down on him. But everybody who took the time to speak with him was captivated by his intellect; it...
There’s Lots Of Complex, Intricate Movement In The Broadway Play ‘Pass Over’. Don’t Call...
"There's not even blocking," says director Danya Taymor (Julie's niece). "I mean, there's a little blocking." That was worked out by the director and...
Loving Or Hating Ebooks: The Quality Of ‘Bookiness’
"Whether you love or hate ebooks is probably a function of what books mean to you, and why. … What it means to read,...
Professional Classical Musicians Have The Same Physical Problems (Other) Athletes Do
LA Phil violist Ingrid Hutman: "When we're injured, we tend to go to sports doctors because that's what's available. It's very difficult to find...
LA MoCA Makes it Official: Johanna Burton Will Be Its Solo Director
Two weeks ago, she was named executive director, working alongside Klaus Biesenbach, whose title was changed to artistic director. Last Friday, Biesenbach was appointed...
Public Radio Is Moving Into The ‘Urban Alternative’ Format
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is giving a total of $1.3 million to public stations in Milwaukee, Minneapolis, and Jackson, Mississippi to develop digital...
The New Yorker’s Archivist Counted Up Decades’ Worth Of Nonwhite Writers’ Bylines, And …
Erin Overbey: "As someone who's done the research, seen all the numbers, I can tell you that things are simply not changing quickly enough...
Japan’s ‘Nobel For The Arts” To James Turrell, Yo-Yo Ma, Sebastião Salgado, Glenn Murcutt
The Praemium Imperiale, including ¥15 million ($136,000) for each recipient, is awarded for painting (Salgado, a photographer), sculpture (Turrell, a light artist), music (Ma,...
The New Hot Spot For Art In Athens Is — Piraeus (?!)
Yes, the Greek capital's grotty old seaport, which has been busy, industrial and unpleasant for 2,500 years, is seeing serious art galleries, and the...
Peru Has A New National Museum With Thousands Of Pre-Columbian Objects
"The Peruvian government has inaugurated the Museo Nacional del Perú, a $125m museum that was initiated by the ministry of culture to preserve the...
‘Negotiated Authenticity’ — What Black Scriptwriters In Hollywood Have Always Been Expected To Provide
That's how one screenwriter describes the unspoken task she and her Black colleagues usually face: "it's still white people determining what the Black experience...
South Korea Considers Adding A Serious Museum To Its Busiest Airport
Authorities are planning to set aside two spaces at Seoul-Incheon, one in each terminal, as a satellite location for one or two major museums....
Mirga’s Successor At The City Of Birmingham Symphony Has Been Chosen
And it's sort of an internal hire: in April 2023, Kazuki Yamada, a 42-year-old from Japan who's been the orchestra's principal guest conductor for...
Yep, Too Much TV Really Will Shrink Your Brain, Researchers Find
A professor at Johns Hopkins found that middle-aged people who watched an above-average amount of television lost volume in the frontal cortex. (The Guardian's...
Is There *Anything* To The Idea That You Can Learn A Foreign Language While...
Well, you can't say there's nothing to it. But there's not much. And don't even think that playing recordings of the language while you’re...
For The First Time, A Dancer In A Wheelchair Will Perform With London’s Royal...
Joe Powell-Main studied at the Royal Ballet's school for four years, until his accident at age 15. Now 23 and a member of Ballet...
