Teodor Currentzis Is Forming A New Orchestra, This One Not Funded By Russia
"The ensemble, to be called Utopia, will bring together 112 musicians from 28 countries, many of them soloists and principal players in renowned orchestras,...
More “Paradise Square” Drama As Director And Choreographers Sue For Unpaid Compensation
"The Stage Directors and Choreographers Society is seeking to enforce payment of (more than $140,000 in) owed royalties, fees and pension and health contributions...
French Government Declares That Notre-Dame Will Reopen For The 2024 Paris Olympics
Culture minister Rima Abdul-Malak: "We're all quite confident that 2024 will be the year of completing a large part of this reconstruction site and...
Actress Pat Carroll Dead At 95
From the 1950s through the '70s she was star of TV comedies and game shows before reinventing herself, at 50, as a classical stage...
Chicago’s Victory Gardens In Turmoil As Artistic Director Out
Three resident theater companies that present work at Victory Gardens have pledged not to work there until the artists’ complaints are addressed. - The New...
The People Who Probe For Meaning In Abandoned Theme Parks
As it turns out, there's an entire community of people captivated with defunct, abandoned or retired theme parks and attractions around the world. - NPR
Why Music Evokes Memories
The connection is one of the reasons why music — especially old music — is so meaningful to people. It's also why music became such...
Adapting To The Medium: Acting In Video Games
Games are kind of ragtag, and there’s not really a standard. For actors, there’s never been a guide what to expect, from auditions to...
The Art Of Pretending To Have Read Books
Now, as a life-long pseud, I learned years ago how to float in an implied familiarity with an author or their work, without telling...
The Death Of London’s Great Orchestra Festival
The death sentence was delivered by the BBC’s director general, Tim Davie, in a statement terminating BBC Four, which televises most of the Proms,...
In A World Where Nothing Is Forgotten, The Past Looks Different
Human experience is now recorded on something that looks a bit like an informal version of the blockchain – the distributed public ledger whose...
When Stories Of Sad White Men Were Groundbreaking
Could it be that the stories of the average middle-class white man — the ones we grew up on — were once a novelty?...
Triumphant Debut For New Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra At London Proms
It was an impressive start for an ensemble that didn’t exist a fortnight ago, rapidly assembled from professional Ukrainian musicians in Ukraine and across Europe. - The...
Beginning Of A New Era For Music? Chart-Eligible NFT Song Released In UK
Unlike with many NFTs, buyers will not require a crypto wallet. After the purchase is made on Serenade’s website, a digital wallet is created...
Why Does Beyonce Have So Many Songwriting Credits On Her New Album?
Beyoncé’s collaboration with other artists has a lot more to do with intellectual property law and the fairly modern practice of sampling (reusing part of an...
Seamus Heaney On How To Use Dictionaries
"I don’t begin with the idea of plundering the word for meanings; it’s rather a discovery, a saving grace, something that clinches or copes....
What Happened To Mall Culture?
What killed them wasn’t just online shopping or big box stores, but a broader cultural shift. Malls succeeded by catering to different groups, from...
Singapore’s Art Market Rises As Hong Kong Recedes
The tide seems to be turning in the city’s favor, in part, due to a general migration across the region to Singapore because of...
America’s Ten Most Influential Buildings
Dezeen asked 10 American architects, including American Institute of Architects (AIA) president-elect Kimberly Dowdell and veteran New York architect Robert AM Stern, to name the US building...
That Seems… So Normal. But Who Defines Normal?
How does such a tiny group dominate what we think of as normality? With meticulous research, Sarah Chaney traces the history of such narratives...
How To Sort Out Cultural Appropriation From Appreciation
The type of cultural appropriation we need to be vigilant about is fairly simple. It occurs when members of a dominant culture – for...
The End of Social Media As We Know It
“Mark last week as the end of the social networking era, which began with the rise of Friendster in 2003, shaped two decades of...
Has Our Thinking Become Binary Like Our Machines?
The machine world is a binary world, and it strikes me that we have learned to apply those zeroes and ones to our thinking,...
Marvel Comics Have Become Penguin Classics
Last month, the “leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world” released, in collaboration with Marvel, three volumes from what's being called the “Penguin...
What A Recent Scandal Reveals About Academic Research
Most suspect work is left to fester in the literature. When corrections do appear, they may be slow to be acknowledged; even retracted papers can...
