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After earning her doctorate in music composition, she wrote "more than a hundred compositions in a seven-decade career, including seven operas, many orchestral works and a large body of chamber music." - The New York Times

"Creative Scotland will use National Lottery funding reserves to plug the gap, but said the moment was a 'tipping point' for an already fragile sector." - BBC

He's 90. One of his costars (John Standing) is 89; the other (Glenda Jackson) has died. "No wonder tempted them from retirement: meaty roles dry up as you approach 100." - The Guardian (UK)

Radio stations in the state are refusing to broadcast operas from the Met. You know why. - The New York Times

Gabriela Wiener is "the most irreverent and daring voice of the new literary generation of Latin American women." - The New York Times

"The debate over the series is growing increasingly heated as it becomes a surprising transatlantic export from the more traditionally buttoned-up Brits." - Washington Post

Twelve hundred things, to be precise, including Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood and a poem by Cranogwen, the first woman to win a Welsh national poetry prize. - BBC

Then you obviously become a literary historian. - Los Angeles Times

That's right, never before have any of us heard "Every morning I greet thee" in the actor's own voice, despite intense vocal training before Sound of Music. - The Guardian (UK)

But the Academy has decided to replace it. - NPR

The fire in Port Clyde destroyed restaurants, a general store - and an art gallery with Jamie Wyeth paintings. - The New York Times

"There's nothing the right could do that could meaningfully affect Swift. She has an incredibly devoted fanbase, a sold-out tour that lasts until November 2024, which again, is going to make her a billionaire, and maybe even has a hot new boyfriend." - Salon

Studios are already busy developing myriad uses for machine-learning tools that are both creative and administrative. Will they halt that development, knowing that their own copyrighted product is in jeopardy from machine-learning tools they don't control and that Big Tech monopolies, all of which could eat the film and TV industry whole? - Wired

A “view” in this case means the total viewing time divided by its running time, a metric that can be applied fairly easily across streaming services. Importantly, those success bonuses will rely not only on the “view,” but on subscribers as well. And that’s where things get tricky. - The Hollywood Reporter

If we want the university to remain a viable space for knowledge production, then scholars across disciplines must be able to identify the goal of their work – in part to advance the Enlightenment project of ‘useful knowledge’ and in part to defend themselves from public and political mischaracterisation. - Aeon