“You are the last orchestra and the most important orchestra where I have been music director. Your memory will accompany me in my heart to the end of my life. You, Chicago, are the Symphony of my heart. Grazie.” - New City
"Lenny was feverishly finishing music even as the premiere was approaching. I remember hearing that Alvin Ailey would be waiting for the next piece of music that would involve dance so that they could rush to put it together." - MSN (The Washington Post)
It was the lowest haul since 2001, when summer movies earned $3.34 billion at domestic theaters. The summer season typically accounts for about 40% of annual box office receipts, Comscore says. - The Wall Street Journal
Some of the images, like Grant Wood's American Gothic and van Gogh's The Night Café and Hokusai's The Wave, work pretty well. Others, like Munch's The Scream and Kehinde Wiley's portrait of Barack Obama, wellll ... (We can't decide about Leonardo's Last Supper and Picasso's Guernica.) - Artnet
"I thought of Maude as a horseshit liberal. She was altogether liberal, but she knew far less than she should know to support her point of view. I felt that way about myself." And he says that, 50 years after it aired, he could do the abortion episode the same way today. - The Hollywood Reporter
The largest storm ever recorded in the country, Typhoon Hannamnor roared through on Monday. Luckily, no serious destruction has been reported, but several sites such as the Seokguram Grotto and the Bulguksa Temple in Gyeongju will require careful repairs. - ARTnews
PBS Appalachia Virginia, a streaming service operated by Blue Ridge PBS in Roanoke, will have dedicated staff and studios in Abingdon producing local programming. One of the biggest challenges will be helping get better broadband service to the mountainous and rural area. - Current
She snuck into war-torn Chechnya, witnessed the Tienanmen Square protests, covered the Taliban's retreat from Kabul in 2001, and did extraordinary reporting from the Iraq War. Yet, she once told Susan Stamberg, "I didn't set out to be a war correspondent. The wars kept happening." - MSN (The Washington Post)
The concert itself was cancelled, but that doesn't mean the orchestra didn't perform: instead, these musicians from the capital of the rebellious 13 colonies played a two-piece tribute to Her Majesty that moved just about everyone. - The Philadelphia Inquirer
This year's iteration of the popular and somewhat rowdy celebration of British patriotism was to have happened on Saturday evening. Friday's concert by the Philadelphia Orchestra was also called off. - The Guardian
With the cost-of-living crisis taking hold, the publishing industry hopes Truss and her government will bring in a range of measures to ensure people from all backgrounds are able to access books easily. - The Guardian
“If we do three smaller events around an opening, it’s just that much better for the artist and for my team to be able to reconnect with people and be able to talk, instead of the one big blow-out type of celebration. But there are going to be artists that want that.” - Hyperallergic
"It is a feeling of being in a minefield where some things are permitted and some not, but you don’t know which, or that certain lines are ‘meant to be funny’, but you don’t find them so – that Shakespeare’s intentions are in some mysterious sense to be honoured, even though no one truly knows what they were." -...
At 85, he retains, as Daphne Merkin once wrote in The New York Times, a louche glamour, “like a lounge lizard who reads Flaubert.” The house Stoppard shares with his third wife, the charming Sabrina Guinness, is exactly what you would expect: elegant, erudite, fey and library-quiet. - The New York Times
