The Young Conductor Who Replaced Muti On A Moment’s Notice And Wowed The Chicago...
“I wasn’t expecting it, but somehow, I took more notes than usual on the Brahms that day,” she says. - Chicago Tribune
America’s 150 Largest Ballet Companies And Where They Stood Financially In FY2020
DDP's latest report reflects the first part of the toll the pandemic shutdown took on the troupes — and it shows, yet again, just...
Someone Thinks Orchestra Music Died In The 20th Century
In order to begin to reclaim orchestral music of the 20th century, John Mauceri poses the following question: “If we put aside the unquestioned...
Can Cultural Institutions Help Heal Countries Torn Up By Civil War? Look To Bosnia
"Bosnia and Herzegovina share a painful legacy — yet, today, they live an enduring peace. Cities such as Sarajevo and Srebrenica are now largely...
A New Golden Age For Black British Theatre
"A raft of productions from Black theatre-makers have been making waves, garnering critical acclaim and exciting audiences. Black writers and directors are relishing telling...
Women From Trinidad Like Monique Roffey Are Reinvigorating Caribbean Literature
Roffey's The Mermaid of Black Conch "joins an impressive wave of recent books by Trinidadian women writers, including Ingrid Persaud's Love After Love and...
Arts Audiences In Australia Are Coming Back, Even As COVID Cases Rise Again
"Venues and organisations are frantically having to deal with a programming backlog and process delayed projects still 'on the books'. And from the visitor's...
“Country-House Opera” In England Is Thriving, And Not Just At Glyndebourne
Two hours south of London, Glyndebourne is the oldest and most famous of the summer opera festivals at the historic country homes of the...
Bass René Pape Gets Himself Into A Heap of Trouble With A Drunken Facebook...
Last week, after the Met's chorus posted an item about the company's participation in NYC's Pride festivities, Pape added a borderline-incoherent comment saying he...
Anti-Oil Protesters Glue Themselves To More Art In London Museums
On Monday, their target was Constable's The Hay Wain at the National Gallery; on Tuesday, it was a 500-year-old student copy of Leonardo's The...
The Cathedral Climbers Working On Salisbury Cathedral
It is neither practical, nor desirable, to keep erecting scaffolding. “Scaffolding can be intrusive. You have to attach it to the building and you...
After 51 Years, A Boston New Music Institution Calls It Quits
Boston is losing an essential purveyor of invigorating new music — after 51 years, 109 commissions, 20 recordings, and 243 world premieres. Until now,...
Movie Theatres Have An Aging Audience Problem
Older audiences will only be around so long. If you teach the rising generation that the theatrical experience is completely extraneous, that experience probably...
How Lilith Fair Changed Music 25 Years Ago
For the artists and fans who experienced it, Lilith Fair felt revolutionary. It's success upended concert industry norms and created a new place where...
Seattle To Remove Two “Culturally Inappropriate” Totem Poles From Pike Place Park
“They don't tell a story about me or my people, and it really makes me feel less-than because we are being represented by totem...
How MacIntosh’s Iconic Glasgow School Of Art Was Recreated After The Great Fire
Reflecting on the row over the second rebuild plans he describes how an academic, from the school. Professor Ray McKenzie, had said publicly that...
How Exactly Do They Get Fireworks To Create Fancy Shapes In The Sky?
No longer must holiday fireworks look like either meteors or weeping willows. Pyrotechnicians can make the shells show smiley faces, words, and even dandelions...
A Great Writer/Editor Partnership: Robert Caro And Robert Gottleib
When Caro was almost finished with “The Power Broker,” he got an agent, Lynn Nesbit, and she matched him up with Gottlieb. If there...
Refugee Ukrainian Dancers Have Formed A New Ballet Company In Europe, And They Have...
United Ukrainian Ballet, as the company is called, have set up a headquarters in the former Royal Conservatory building in The Hague. Their next...
YouTube Has Grown Its Own Critic Class
Importantly, these commentators were not professional journalists, concerned experts or onlookers from outside the YouTube world. They, and their audiences, come from the same...
At A Comedy Club In Lviv, Finding Humor In The War
When some local comedians realized that one basement comedy club is a designated bomb shelter, they started a regular show there. They call it...
What Will Be The New Australian Government’s Arts Policy?
The new Labor government's Arts Minister is also the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations: Tony Burke. He indicates particular interested in job security...
Remembering Flame-throwing Musicologist Richard Taruskin
Dr. Taruskin was said to have grown gentler in his later years and he befriended many young critics and scholars, the same sorts of...
Jim Oestreich Remembers Richard Taruskin
His keeper, not his editor, I used to call myself in affectionate jest — and with enormous pride and respect. - The New York...
HBO Max Will Stop Making Original Programming For Large Swaths Of Europe
"As the (new Warner Bros. Discovery) media conglomerate looks to recalibrate its streaming priorities, it will no longer produce originals for HBO Max in...
