One notable finding over the past ten years has been the steady rise in programming of music by living composers. Worldwide, since 2013, contemporary music has risen from around 6% to 14% in our listings. - BachTrack
"'Art has never been a priority' for the government, says (one gallerist), and response to pressure from the arts is 'slow, but we can’t not do it.' The arts still only represent 1.2% of the total government budget, … with too much of it used on one-off festivals." - The Art Newspaper
A different festival director from a variety of artistic disciplines will be engaged each year. It is a new concept for the oldest choral festival in the Western Hemisphere. - Cincinnati Business Journal
"There was once a transgressive appeal to the Santos persona. … It was the inappropriateness of his high status that made him amusing. Now that he’s been brought low, viral fame supplies no tension for a Santos character. There is nothing transgressive about a grifter on Cameo." - The New York Times
Niblock made music from drones, microtones, and instruments such as cellos, bagpipes, hurdy-gurdies, and more. He remains best-known for the spare sounds he produced, but he also amassed a formidable oeuvre of photography, films, and videos. - ARTnews
"Just under 300 people responded to the survey, which was intended to collect data about copyright, payment, royalties, and other labor issues. … Only 11.5% of respondents reported earning 100% of their income from literary translation work, and … 63.5% reported an annual income of less than $10,000 from literary translation." - Publishers Weekly
For all its newfound task as “knowledge navigator and facilitator” in an increasingly complex and connected world, the library’s traditional role has also benefited from its new home: library book loans, far from declining, have risen by almost 10%. - The Guardian
"Alsop, 67, was music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra from 2007-08 through 2020-21, the first woman to lead a top-level American orchestra. She agreed to a three-year term with the Philadelphia Orchestra starting with a 2024 tour of China." - AP
“If you want to know your game is not good, you prefer to know it as early as possible, so that you can still do something about it, and not when it’s too late." - The New York Times
"The seven-officer team has mastered hip-hop and salsa and is playing around with bachata and bhangra. … But what they really need is recruits to fill out a robust, diverse roster of at least two dozen dancers who can travel and compete against other groups, ideally other officers." - The New York Times
"Loss of local support for the arts is a symptom of the increasing number of councils facing bankruptcy after more than a decade of central funding cuts. … Arts campaigners and performers fear the lights will soon go out in a string of venues across England, Wales and Northern Ireland." - The Guardian
"Radio’s second largest ownership group says it has reached an agreement with a 'supermajority' of its debtholders on a deleveraging transaction that will erase over 80% of the company’s debt, … (in exchange for which) Audacy’s debtholders will receive an ownership stake in the reorganized company." - Inside Radio
"He presided over the newsroom as executive editor from 1994 to 2001, a period that coincided with the impeachment of President Bill Clinton and the chaotic presidential election night of 2000. … (His) tenure also coincided with the advent of digital media" and the launch of NYTimes.com. - The Washington Post (MSN)
"Master’s degree student Shiran Canel — an Israeli-American Jew in her 30s who lives in the Chicago area — alleges the school discriminated against her during an admissions interview and then intentionally subjected her to a hostile environment following the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel." - Chicago Tribune (MSN)
The screenplay, which is finished, is based on A Life of Jesus by Shūsaku Endō, who also wrote the book on which Scorsese's Silence is based. Scorsese intends the 80-minute film to focus on the core principles of Jesus's teachings rather than retelling the Gospels. - Los Angeles Times (Yahoo!)
