Music director, at various points, of the Indianapolis Symphony, Opera Theater of St. Louis, and the Ensemble orchestral de Paris, he is noted especially for a series of landmark recordings of Berlioz’s vocal and stage works — in particular a multi-award-winning Les Troyens. - Gramophone
By caving to Trump’s demands and failing to protect international students, the letter says, Columbia has participated in an “authoritarian assault on universities” aimed at “destroying their role as sites of teaching, research, learning, and activism essential to building a free and fair world.” - Hyperallergic
Put another way, this monk is acknowledging the spiritual potential of Gregorian chant while warning against decoupling it from a specifically Catholic liturgy. - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Opening night is not a Broadway show’s first performance in front of a paying audience, as it used to be many decades ago. That first show is now called the first preview. - New York Theatre
These advisories are vague. They do not instruct anyone not to visit the United States, as they might Iran or North Korea. But they are acknowledging that Trump’s border-enforcement efforts are unpredictable enough to have introduced a new variable in tourism decisions. - The Atlantic
The Kennedy Center was once the place where politics, the arts and debate met. Historically, it has been a propellant of diversity and inclusion. But now it is a place of division. Which is why what’s happening there is not only significant for the venue, but across all of America’s artistic landscape. - The Stage
As is true of autocracies everywhere, this Administration demands a mystical view of an imagined past. In late March, Trump issued an executive order called “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History.” - The New Yorker
For the first time in its history, the National Gallery in London is offering an overnight stay to the lucky person who wins its new prize draw, which has been launched before its public reopening next month. - The Guardian
Software companies and studios are in a better position than companies that import hardware, provided the tariffs don’t lead to a recession. Publishing video games is better than selling game consoles. Producing TV shows is better than making TVs. - Bloomberg
“This is Jurassic Park: Castlemaine Redux, a shot-for-shot remake (if you squint) of Jurassic Park.” The film's director, with a $3,000 budget, has classic Australian issues: “Some sheep walked into the last shot and screwed up the continuity.” - The Guardian (UK)
But this surprise is of the good, even great sort: The theatre “has paid $9.5 million to buy back the campus it lost in bankruptcy in 1970 — a remarkable feat for a theater organization, and a building, brought back from the brink.” - Los Angeles Times (MSN)
"Weimar cabaret has a kind of punk, dirty, gritty, raw, social commentary energy about it. … It flares up in times when there’s a lot of scary shit happening in the world.” - The Guardian (UK)
“Dance has always been more fragile as an audience draw; we are so keenly aware of that and are always trying to build bridges to help audience members find ‘their stories’ in our performances.” - Wisconsin State Journal (Internet Archive)
“We’re competing against are taking our business, our assets, our storytelling and hiring their crews instead of our crews, and that’s not good for business here.” - Los Angeles Times (MSN)
