“One of the ironies of Brookes history will be that the university will finally offer a proper performance space, at the same time that it is closing the doors to music students,” the letter notes. - ClassicFM
"I can totally admit that these questions highlight my naivety. But overall I really did enjoy my first experience at the orchestra, and although I felt a little clueless in some parts, life is all about learning after all.' - Liverpool Echo
The League of Live Stream Theater, the nonprofit organization dedicated to bringing live performances to audiences around the world via livestream, can play a vital role in expanding access to high-caliber work of an adventurous spirit. - Los Angeles Times
Syracuse Opera board chair Camille Tisdel said ticket sales are down 40-60% from where they were prior to the Covid-19 pandemic. The opera company had planned to stage three more productions. - Syracuse.com
“We know that junk fees resonate with American consumers. They don’t like being taken for suckers,” said Lael Brainard, the director of the White House National Economic Council. “And we’re going to continue our efforts to make sure that across all industries consumers have the right to see all-in pricing right up front.” - Washington Post
The phenomenon is sped by automation, which usurps routine tasks, leaving employees to handle the nonroutine and unanticipated—and the continued advance of which throws the skills employers value into flux. It would be supremely ironic if the advance of the knowledge economy had the effect of devaluing knowledge. - The Atlantic
Somehow, the friendship has survived - and "honesty, even at its most uncomfortable, is far more compelling than just another celebrity swan song." - Washington Post
Coca-Cola. Coors. Hallmark. Even Instagram - all with cursive script logos. Are they distinctive enough to stay, or will they follow Eddie Bauer and Johnson & Johnson into the land of angular type? - Fast Company
When the factory that made the very specific sort of clay Aardman Animations uses, the company bought up all the backstock - but now they're nearly out. - Vulture
In a recent study, most college students "are forgoing regular app usage (79 percent) in favor of in-person connection." Time truly is a flat circle. - Wired
"In the past, organized tours of the necropolis were generally only granted to approved groups of academics, students and other specialists." Now, anyone with a ticket has the same access. - NPR
The script choices were so disturbing that Vulture's critics called "an emergency discussion" to thrash out why the season's early episodes are haunted. - Vulture
"Although set at the start of the 20th century, play producer Mika Kaartinen says the theme of searching for a better life resonates just as strongly today." - CBC
