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Words to live by: Don’t shoehorn grand opera
The return to the stage (though not their own) of the Met and of Opera Philadelphia, along with a streamed Aïda from the Paris...
What James Whiteside Has Been Doing With (Or To?) Dance Through The Lockdown
"As theaters went dark during the pandemic, the New York-based Whiteside" — best known as a prinmcipal at ABT — "began putting out a...
London’s West End Reopens Yet Again, Hoping This Time Will Stick
There were two attempts in the second half of 2020 to start British theatres up after the pandemic lockdown, and both were quickly ended...
Britain’s Stages Are Not Reopening With Theatrical Comfort Food
"There has been a fear that the large-scale redundancies during the pandemic – an estimated 40% of theatre workers lost their jobs – could...
On The Rediscovery Of Black Composers Of The Past
"Black composers have been emerging over the past year at a dramatically accelerated pace that's particularly rare amid the normally glacial progression of the...
Uffizi Gallery Is Making Up Its Pandemic Cash Shortfall By Releasing NFTs Of Its...
"And it's starting off with a bang: an encrypted Michelangelo painting of the holy family, Doni Tondo (1505-06), just sold for €140,000 ($170,000). The...
Blake Bailey’s Philip Roth Biography, Withdrawn By W.W. Norton, Picked Up By New Publisher
The acclaimed but controversial bio was dropped by its original publisher after several women came forward with serious allegations of sexual misconduct on Bailey's...
Co-Host Bob Garfield Fired From Public Radio’s ‘On The Media’
The longtime co-anchor was dismissed by New York Public Radio "after two separate investigations found he had violated an anti-bullying policy. … Mr. Garfield...
World’s Oldest Cave Art Is Being Damaged By Climate Change
"Researchers examined 11 caves and rock-shelters , which feature art dating from 45,000 to 20,000 years old. … The scientists found that the art,...
Amazon In Talks To Buy MGM For $9 Billion: Report
"Chatter that Amazon (and other tech giants) have been sniffing around MGM has circulated for some time. But sources indicated that Amazon's interest in...
It’s Official: AT&T Is Spinning Off WarnerMedia To Merge With Discovery
"Under the terms of the deal, AT&T will spin off entertainment arm WarnerMedia and combine it with Discovery, creating a TV, film and streaming...
Radio City Music Hall Set To Reopen At 100% Capacity, No Masks Required
The first scheduled event is the finale of this year's Tribeca Film Festival on June 19. Only vaccinated people will be admitted. And how...
David Ludwig talks technology in the arts
The Artistic Advisor to the President and Chair of Composition Studies at the Curtis Institute of Music, also Artistic Director of Curtis Summerfest, speaks...
Revisiting TikTok Before It Was TikTok, A Long, Long Time Ago
"From 2014 to 2018, the Chinese app Musical.ly was where kids — as in, literal children and very young teenagers — would lip-sync to...
Analyzing The 17-Year Cicadas’ ‘Grand Magic Insect Symphony’ — And Joining In
"Only the males can vibrate a section of their abdomen called the tymbals to make either phaaaaaroah drone sounds or chchchchhwhhhs noise waves, depending...
Jazz Trombone Great Curtis Fuller Dead At 88
"Mr. Fuller was among the dozens of musicians to emerge from the fertile mid-century jazz scene of Detroit, where he learned to play intricate,...
Nobel Committee Was Nervous About Giving Prize To Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Fifty years on (as is the rule), documents on the deliberations for the 1970 prize have just been made public, and some committee members...
San Diego Symphony Has A New $85 Million Outdoor Venue
The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park, located on the downtown waterfront, seats up to 10,000 people and (because it's San Diego and they can)...
NPR Is Starting To Put Its Most Popular Podcasts On Traditional Radio
The traffic started out the other way, of course, with over-the-air programs being released as or adapted into podcasts. "But podcasting has turned into...
Hollywood Is Now Producing Companion Podcasts To Movies And TV Series
Why? Money, of course: to put it in business-speak, the companion podcast "offers a new way for creators to diversify IP assets." What's the...
‘There’s Something Going On’ — Who Will Really Be Running LA’s MOCA?
"As the Museum of Contemporary Art prepares to reopen after a historic pandemic closure, it finds itself in the midst of restructuring, moving director...
As Broadway Prepares To Reopen, Here’s How It Will (And Won’t) Be Operating Differently
"Ticket-buyers are being told they will be required to wear face masks (although it's not clear how changing advice from the Centers for Disease...
Bayreuth Festival: Christian Thielemann May Have Lost His Other Job, Too
At the beginning of this week it was announced that the conductor (who was, when he was younger, hailed as a new Herbert von...
St. Paul’s Cathedral In London Is Running Out Of Cash And Could Close
With the pandemic having cut off the revenue from tourist admissions, the landmark's income is down by 90%. The engineer in charge of maintenance...
The Sounds Of Japan’s Ancient Music, Recorded More Than A Century Ago
"Let's set the scene. It's February 28, 1903, and 12 musicians from the Imperial Household Orchestra are seated in front of a gramophone horn...
