"Michelle Donelan, a former WWE marketing manager who was Boris Johnson's Education Secretary for just 48 hours, is to replace Nadine Dorries as Culture Secretary in UK Prime Minister Liz Truss's first cabinet." - Deadline
"Alan Garner (at 87) has become the oldest author to be shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and is the only British writer on this year's list. He is joined ... by one Irish writer, two Americans, a Zimbabwean and a writer from Sri Lanka." - The Guardian
It's an emerging art form — inclusive dance — in which dancers may be in wheelchairs, or on crutches, or have no obvious challenges at all, and professionals often mix with amateurs. - The World
Without public education delivered as a public good, the asylum seeker in detention, the teenager in jail, not to mention millions of children growing up in poverty, will have no realistic way to get the instruction they need to participate in democracy or support themselves. And students of privilege will stay confined in their bubbles. - The New York Times
From copying my music teacher to copying the great composers to mashing-up great recorded content to learning to ask AI to create – it’s all the same process. We are copying what already exists and trying our best to do it so others will consider it art – not craft. - Shelly Palmer
Plácido Domingo has issued a statement apologizing to the Arena di Verona for his recent performances, which resulted in an onstage protest from the orchestra and a subsequent letter from the local union lambasting the showcases as “humiliating.” - OperaWire
Even after the Soviet Union crumbled, Russia was able to keep up its classical strengths—and attract artists from all around the world. But now its musicians are leaving, and Western ones have stopped arriving for guest performances. - Foreign Policy
Almost everyone agrees that the 117-year-old movie exhibition business cannot keep going like this. But hardly anybody agrees on precisely the best way forward. - The New York Times
The U.S.S.R. filled him with dread, and his return brought to light one of the great themes of his life: he had set his own path away from the Marxist materialism of the Bolshevik Revolution, and quietly built, in N.Y.C.B., a village of angels and a music-filled monument to faith and unreason, to body and beauty and spirit. -...
After taking second prize at the 1990 Leeds International Piano Competition, he performed concertos, recitals, and chamber music at leading venues for years. In the 2010s he took up conducting and became music director of England's Royal Northern Sinfonia and, subsequently, the Orchestre de chambre de Paris. - BBC Music Magazine
Rebecca Haw had a bumpy ride before landing her permanent position in the ballet company at Dresden's Semperoper. Hoping to spare other dancers some of her troubles, she founded CODA — and business quickly boomed as potential clients flocked to the agency. - Pointe Magazine
Even if a director wanted to edit their movie to please ratings royalty, the MPAA’s murky machinations could make it hard for her to determine what to carve out. The aversion to the rating is so strong that a search for films that kept their NC-17 rating and played in theaters yields just 40 titles. - The Daily Beast
In response to the Second Vatican Council's reforms, the monks of the Abbey of Keur Moussa set about Africanizing their worship, researching traditional music and adapting it to their liturgy. It was when they discovered the kora that everything clicked — and even got them a recording contract. - The New Yorker
The items, seized under the terms of three separate search warrants executed during the last six months, will be returned to their countries of origin — 21 to Italy and six to Egypt — in ceremonies scheduled for next week. - The New York Times
"(He) was the influential missing piece in American music, (with) a profound impact on Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, and Broadway from the 1930s to the 1960s. The Communist overtones in his work that polarized 20th-century listeners ... plus the circumstances of his 1964 death, ... make him all the more intriguing." - The Philadelphia Inquirer
