BalletX Receives Its Largest Gift Ever — By A Factor Of Nearly Ten
"(Joan) DeJean ... died in December at age 75 and left BalletX a remarkable gift: $7.4 million. A donation of that size is substantial...
Carlos Kalmar Completes 25 Years As Music Director Of Chicago’s Grant Park Orchestra
"The Grant Park Music Festival has long had a tradition of bold, adventuresome programming. But none of the festival’s leaders have done more than...
North Carolina’s Largest Public Radio Station Is Closing Down Its Music Channel
"The University of North Carolina’s WUNC Raleigh-Durham (91.5) will shutter adult alternative digital radio station WUNC Music at the end of the month. The...
Boston Globe Classical Music Critic Jeremy Eichler Steps Down
"After 18 years at the Boston Globe, I am moving on from my position and joining the faculty of Tufts University, where I’ll be...
Divvying Up What Will Be Copyright In The AI Era
It seems less important to get into the fine points of copyright law and arguments over liability for infringement, and instead to explore the political economy of...
Why Google’s AI Can’t Be Sued For Libel
Even as tech companies speak of AI products as though they are actually intelligent, even humanlike or creative, they are fundamentally statistics machines connected...
Why Contemporary Opera Isn’t A Good Fit At The Met
It is problematic to foretell who will attend the revivals of modern operas. New York visitors? Somebody who missed it the first season? The...
Internet Archive Forced To Remove 500,000 Books
"In short, Internet Archive transmitted literary works to the entire world while refusing to license the requisite rights from the authors and publishers who...
Quebec Orchestra Chief Quits In Dispute With Music Director
"The general manager is responsible for everything," he insists. If the artistic director doesn't agree, if he doesn't want to collaborate, that's when we...
Disconnections At The Troubled San Francisco Symphony
Salonen had been pushing for the orchestra to do more, not less, to try to forge connections with new audiences. He had become passionate...
Warning Signs At San Francisco Symphony
For the uninitiated, this may seem like merely an intra-classical-music-world squabble, a fight over the esoterica of contemporary music versus old and pampered performers...
TikTok Strikes Back
TikTok also went on offense, sharing for the first time internal documents from years of failed negotiations with the federal government that it says...
Michael Govan’s Plan For LACMA
Govan’s vision for the new LACMA — a nonhierarchical, decentralized “21st century museum” that is flexible and accessible to everyone — is an honorable one. Some art...
Peter Martins: My Life In Ballet
My instructors grudgingly conceded I had some talent but were skeptical I could develop it fully. These doubts forged a quality in me that...
We All Speak Phone Now
We’re in a language crisis. "The discourse that produces new slang is not only publicly available online, but also amplified based on its ability...
For Writer Tomi Adeyemi, Getting To Book Three Was A Long, Fraught Journey
Finishing a trilogy or a series isn’t easy for most writers, but Adeyemi faced physical challenges along the way. She says, "I like that...
With Rents Soaring And Property Developers Circling, Can Artists Afford Studios Anymore?
British artists are suffering: “Nearly one in three artists doubted that they would be able to continue working professionally in five years’ time, and...
The Internet Archive Shrank Last Week By Half A Million Books
Thanks, publishers, we love that you removed access to 500,000 titles from public access. - Ars Technica
The French Horn Teacher Who Works In Music To Support His Hobby
Andrew Westberg says his wife is "happy it's not tractors. … Pencils are so much easier to store.” - MPR
Suffice It To Say Stephen Sondheim’s Auctioneer Did Not Understand Theatre Kids
“There was a customer on the phone who said something along the lines of 'Just throw out $20,000,' and reported to our staff member...
The Washington Post Is Burning Through Its One Asset
And that is its credibility. "The reputation of the Post newsroom has been built upon readers’ trust that reporters do not pay sources, much less steal...
A Little Money Can Benefit An Aspiring Writer With A Buffer
Jeremy Cooper, the winner of the 2019 Fitzcarraldo Prize, remembers when he had a little cushion of money from selling art and a lot...
Online Trolls Tried To Bully A 20-Year-Old Actress Out Of Playing Kate Middleton
Not that this is unusual, sadly: Meg Bellamy “described the comments from internet trolls as ‘a glimpse into being a woman in this industry.’”...
They Tracked This Musician’s Heartbeats During Her Marathon Rachmaninoff Performance
“These five pieces include two-and-a-half hours of music, 621 pages of score, and more than 97,000 piano notes.” - Open Culture
Top Dealers Of Old Masters Accused Of Bigotry, Sexual Harassment, And Other Workplace Violations
"Previously a curator at the Fine Art Museums of San Francisco, where she led the European paintings department, Brilliant claims that Voena and...
