"The (61-year-old) singer withdrew this summer from the Bayreuth Festival, where he was scheduled to perform (three different leading roles). He said he made the announcement after the Festival ended last week because 'I did not wish anything to cloud this year's achievements.'" - AP
"The technology utilizes tiny motors — 16 of them — embedded in the fabric, like those that make cellphones vibrate. … Lyric is the first opera company in the world to offer the technology at live performances." - Chicago Sun-Times
"Fox said Thursday that Murdoch would become chairman emeritus of both companies. His son, Lachlan, will become News Corp. chairman and continue as chief executive officer of Fox Corp." - AP
"The Authors Guild — led by authors including George R.R. Martin, Jonathan Franzen and John Grisham — sued OpenAI, accusing the company of engaging 'in a systematic course of mass-scale copyright infringement.' … The legal action is at least the third over the company using copyrighted books to train its system." - The Hollywood Reporter
In a statement headlined "Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony Announces Potential Ceasing of Operations," the board chair said, "Despite our persistent efforts over the last year, we have been unable to secure the funding necessary to continue our operations this season." - Ludwig Van
"The Dayton library – which was on the verge of becoming the first library in the country to shutter over disputes about what books it offers – will remain open after a Columbia County court Wednesday barred an initiative to close the library from appearing on the November ballot." - Yahoo! (The Seattle Times)
"Newfields has appointed Belinda Tate as the next director of the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfield, concluding a nearly four-year hiring process and crisis of identity for the 140-year-old institution." - ARTnews
Librarians and teachers, self-professed fans of lengthy, complex tomes, and even bookstore owners have similar tales of woe. Some of the books on the list are precisely what one might expect. - Washington Post
They took a jab at CEO Matias Tarnopolsky, claiming his pay went up by 111% from 2019 to 2022, at the same time they said the musicians took $4.6 million in pay cuts to help the ensemble. - Philadelphia Inquirer
Negotiations began over a year ago, going into formal sessions on Sept. 15, 2022, ahead of the contract’s expiration, with the Musicians Union Local 6 representing the SFS players. But to date, there is nothing known to have been settled, except for health care provisions. - San Francisco Classical Voice
Aiming to rebuild its audience from post-pandemic lows by attracting younger and more diverse ticket-buyers, the company is devoting fully one-third of 18 staged productions to contemporary works. - AP
According to the British Film Institute (BFI), spending on such productions reached a record £6.27bn last year, with most of that money coming from overseas. - BBC
Mayor Eric Adams convened the inaugural meeting of the first-ever Live Performance Industry Council, which features a mix of leaders representing the theater, music and dance industries from the city’s arenas, cultural institutions, unions, nonprofit sector and city government. - The Hollywood Reporter
"I didn’t know what the response would be, especially on newsstands, with no precedent or place for a women’s magazine that wasn’t about home, family, and children. The response was shocking. (The first issue) sold out in eight days. Soon, bags of mail began arriving in our offices." - Literary Hub
"This late starter — he turned to dance after graduating from Yale in the 1990s — has never taken formal classes in the techniques that have most influenced him, which include vogueing and Japanese Butoh. Instead, he observed them from the outside, and took from their 'theoretical underpinnings,' he said." - The New York Times
