Paul Winberg is credited with tripling the festival’s annual contributions, bolstering its administrative infrastructure and overseeing a key change in artistic leadership last year. Under his watch, the festival has become one of the country’s foremost free classical music series. - WBEZ
The change may seem cosmetic, but as a marketing scholar at Temple University whose research focuses on branding and digital marketing strategy, I know that in the tight geometry of naming and branding, every word matters. - The Conversation
“Last week, NBC News gutted all the reporting groups aimed at the stories of underrepresented groups. And they're hardly alone. … As more media companies roll back diversity efforts, … the avenues for reporters who specialize in such coverage grow increasingly limited, putting those journalists on the front lines of layoffs.” - TheWrap (MSN)
Common knowledge — awareness of mutual understanding — can explain the emergence of social-media shaming mobs, academic cancel culture and revolutions that seem to erupt from nowhere. - Nature
Employees at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art announced Wednesday that they are forming a union, LACMA United, representing more than 300 workers from across all departments, including curators, educators, guest relations associates and others. - Los Angeles Times
“A ‘once in a century’ discovery of a cache of long-lost letters has revealed how the English poet WH Auden developed a deep and lasting friendship with a Viennese sex worker and car mechanic after the latter burgled the author’s home and was put on trial.” - The Guardian
If the reading revolution represented the greatest transfer of knowledge to ordinary men and women in history, the screen revolution represents the greatest theft of knowledge from ordinary people in history. - The Free Press
The power of music has long been its ability to soundtrack a generation—to evoke emotion, as well as summon a specific time and place. Headphone listening not only isolates the listener; it shrinks music’s cultural footprint. - The Atlantic
Their whole lives, they had heard people talk about picturing, and imagining, and counting sheep, and visualizing beaches, and seeing in the mind’s eye, and assumed that all those idioms were only metaphors or colorful hyperbole. - The New Yorker
“Dance is already abstract, and so the role of us as artists is to be as specific as possible with what we want to say. That’s how we make dance speak. We are talking heart-to-heart, spirit-to-spirit, with the audience.” - The Minnesota Star Tribune
“At the Hot Club of New York, ... jazz from the 1910s through the ’50s crackles to life, spun on 78 RPM discs made of shellac (and heard) through a restored vintage hi-fi system … (in a room) where shelves sag under thousands of 78s, books and magazines.” - The New York Times
Arts Council England’s online portal, Grantium, was used by artists to submit and manage funding applications. It crashed in July, leaving thousands of applications in limbo until the portal reopened in late September. Yet, say applicants, ACE refused to extend deadlines and has distributed less money than grantees were promised. - The Guardian
The company was producing Michael Frayn’s backstage farce Noises Off, which is, as DTC’s executive director wrote to subscribers, “an intensely physical comedy that depends on precise timing and movement, (so) even one missing performer made it impossible to safely continue.” And the cast had a whack-a-mole series of health issues. - KERA (Dallas)
