Tom Port believes that records are like snowflakes — no two are the same. So many things can impact the pressing, including room temperature, the split second the stampers are pressed onto the hot, vinyl biscuit, and unknown factors no human can understand. - Washington Post
References to Apple Classical in code were previously found in a beta version of iOS 15.5, and an Android version of Apple Music. The evidence isn’t conclusive, of course, and may be laying the groundwork for another future version of iOS. - Ludwig Van
Founded in Los Angeles in 2011 by Michael Cornell, the Align Ballet Method was born out of a desire to make ballet approachable for adults, despite whether they know a “tendu” from a “dégagé.” While adult ballet has long existed, it is niche and has little marketing presence. - Los Angeles Times
Using deepfake technology, the actor appeared in a phone advert without ever being on set, after his face was digitally transplanted onto another performer. Willis allowed US firm Deepcake, which makes “digital twins”, to use his face. - The Telegraph
Class Act, based loosely on Shaw's Pygmalion and Lerner and Loewe's My Fair Lady, is inspired by lead actor Mish Gregor's "bogan" (that's Australian for "white trash") background and how she changed as a person as she crossed class boundaries as a theatre professional. - ArtsHub (Australia)
The brain begins becoming less connected within those separate networks and more connected globally across networks. By the time we reach our 80s, the brain tends to be less regionally specialized and instead broadly connected and integrated. - Big Think
He taught himself to play the lute while imprisoned as a conscientious objector during World War II, collected antique instruments, and recorded, as a singer, an LP that featured English lute songs alongside African-American spirituals. He even composed a lute song that he passed off as "Elizabethan." - Early Music America
"We do not know how many Black people are in orchestras. And I say that as a representative of Black Orchestral Network. One of our calls is, let's start collecting data. Let's find out, have we done better than the 1.4% number that is going out there?" - NPR
Danny Boyle is creating a "large-scale immersive performance" of the landmark science-fiction movie for the new performance venue The Factory International in Manchester next year. The choreographer will be Kenrick "H2O" Sandy, with designs by Es Devlin, music by composer Michael "Mikey J" Asante, and book by Sabrina Mahfouz. - BBC
The season total represented a decline of 7 percent compared to 2019, when 311,596 patrons attended 248 performances. Because there were 44 fewer events this past summer than three years ago, individual concert attendance increased 12 percent from the summer of 2019. - Berkshire Eagle
"If you read his 1984 'carbuncle' speech in full, what follows might come as a surprise. Far from issuing a decree for more Corinthian columns and pumped-up pediments, he outlines principles that are now found in practically every best-practice design guide." - The Guardian
Not long ago, piano factories like this were one of America’s largest and most formidable industries, employing tens of thousands of workers. Today, only two remain: Steinway & Sons in New York, and this place — Mason & Hamlin. - The Hustle
More specifically, the Radio Corporation of America (you know it as RCA), whose boss, David Sarnoff, stole some of Philo T. Farnsworth's technology, and then, when Farnsworth declined to sell his business to RCA, harassed the poor guy with lawsuits until he was a broken man. - Salon
Said one employee at Memphis's Museum of Science and History, "Whether the police couldn't or just wouldn't do anything about them, I don't know. All I know is we had 30 armed bigots trying to break in, and that was when our director made the decision to evacuate." - Hyperallergic
"Local bartenders, retirees, restaurant workers and marketing professionals joined other Pride-goers to create a buffer around the store's entrance. Someone started playing music from a mobile speaker, kicking off sporadic dancing under the early afternoon sun." The right-wingers ended up outnumbered 10-to-1. - The Guardian (Montana Free Press)
