Interim No More: Peter Oundjian Appointed Colorado Symphony’s Music Director
The former music director of the Toronto Symphony (and, before that, longtime first violinist of the Tokyo String Quartet), Oundjian stepped in as principal...
John Eliot Gardiner, Fired By The Ensembles He Founded, Creates New Ones
In July, the board of the Monteverdi Choir and Orchestras broke ties with the conductor, 11 months after he punched a singer in the...
“Gentle Giant Of Chamber Music In America,” Anthony Checchia, Has Died At 94
He was the longtime general manager of the Marlboro Music Festival, Vermont's great summer school for music students, and founding artistic director of the...
Actor James Earl Jones, 93
The actor amassed nearly 200 screen credits during his brilliant 60-year career. - Deadline
Montreal Closed Streets To Cars. Pedestrians Came. The City Was Enlivened
As of this summer, eleven streets in total have been transformed into seasonal pedestrian-only destinations, creating almost ten kilometres of walkable car-free surfaces across...
Charles Ives Was Born 150 Years Ago. Why Are We Conflicted About His Music?
Even our orchestras and instrumentalists perform him far less than they should. If it follows that the present Ives sesquicentenary is insufficiently observed, that...
Can Language Unify Black Culture?
Everyone knows what it means to capitalize “Black.” But how does it feel? On your tongue, on the page? If we act like affect...
How To Keep A Community’s Soul While It’s Under Gentrification Pressure
In order to be successful, any urban regeneration has to tap into the local culture and heritage of a place. This means embracing what...
Nabokov Said Rereading Distinguished Who The Real Readers Are. He Was Wrong
The correct and virtuous way to read, according to those who knew about reading and writing, was to reread. Rereading was that which separated...
Just How Terrible Is The Art Market Right Now?
For market participants who entered the game after 2020, all this turbulence may come as a surprise. Auction prices for some young artists have...
Internet Archive Ruling On Fair Use Is A Disaster For Libraries, Writers And Readers
Even though this outcome was always a strong possibility, the final ruling is just incredibly damaging, especially in that it suggests that all libraries are bad...
Brexit Has Been A Disaster For UK Musicians Wanting To Tour In The EU....
Since Brexit, musicians touring the EU have faced barriers introduced in the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA). They can work up to 90...
How Mick Herron Went From Obscurity To The World’s Top Spy Fiction Writer
“I was only ever a hair’s breadth away from being exactly as much of a failure as the people I write about,” he said...
An Illustrated Guide To Museum Etiquette For Dummies
Absolutely do not go on opening day, and always be prepared to leave your friends behind. - The New York Times
Could This Documentary Fix Our Relationship To The Internet?
“The question of how to use images responsibly isn’t new, but in our era of endless transmission and surveillance, even a project meant to...
Stop The Sexist Art Versus Craft Debate And Embrace A Third Way
Novelist Tracy Chevalier: The middle ground "is where people (women!) make things and are not patronised for it. ‘Crafter’ … is being superseded by...
We’ll Probably Never Get To See A Revealing New Nine-Hour Documentary About Prince
“This creature of pure sex and mischief and silky ambiguity, I now saw, was also dark, vindictive and sad. This artist who liberated so...
These Two Guys Aren’t Forty Yet And Have Gone EGOT As Of Sunday Night
They met as freshmen at Michigan. “They won an Oscar in 2017 for their original song 'City of Stars,' featured in the film La...
The Guys Who Design Those Really Intense Movie Theatre Popcorn Buckets
“The most difficult products are the ones that have a human face, because getting skin tones and the shadows and all that stuff can...
Maria Benitez, Who Popularized And Championed Flamenco In The States, Has Died At 82
Benítez was “an American dancer and choreographer who, as the founder of a popular Spanish dance troupe, played a major role in making New...
What The Internet Archive Decision Means To All Of Us
The Internet Archive “is the only keeper of the internet’s first days, via the Wayback Machine. ... The archive is a huge source for...
As The British Empire Died, Tropical Modernism Came To Dominate Postcolonial Architecture
A new exhibition shows how local architects in Ghana and India took the British idea of tropical modernism and turned it into a symbol...
Michael Lerner, Founder Of The Influential, Controversial Magazine Tikkun, Has Died At 81
“By the late 1980s, Tikkun had established itself as an outlet for writers who shared his conviction that some form of Palestinian self-determination was...
Amid A Wider Exodus From China, Ballet Dancer Du Hai Finds His Place In...
He tried the United States for a while, but then a spot opened in Japan - and, like many other Chinese intellectuals, he’s found...
Millennial Nostalgia Is Driving Pop Culture
Just as Boomer nostalgia influenced Gen-X for far longer than it perhaps should have, Gen-Zers (and the rest of us) will have years of...
