“Called “Shift: A Festival of American orchestras,” and initially scheduled for a three-year run starting in the spring of 2017, the festival is a continuation, or reimagining, of the Spring for Music festival that ran in New York from 2010 to 2014, which brought orchestras large and small to Carnegie Hall with innovative, unusual programs.”
Filmmaker Francesco Rosi, 92
“The French critic Michel Ciment once counted Mr. Rosi among ‘the three last giants of Italian cinema,’ the others being Federico Fellini and Michelangelo Antonio. His films won top prizes at the Cannes, Venice and Berlin film festivals. Yet he never acquired the kind of international fame many of his peers knew.”
Is There Really An Anti-Writer Trend In British Theatre?
“There has been a shift of opinion against playwriting, in favour of collective methods of theatre. The very activity of playwriting has been attacked as individualistic, undemocratic and even immoral,” playwright David Edgar recently declared. Lyn Gardner begs to differ: “But even if what Edgar is saying is just a provocation, I’m really not sure that talking about an ‘anti-writer trend’ is either true or helpful.”
Elena Obraztsova, Great Mezzo Of Soviet Era, Dead At 75
One of the few Soviet opera singers to become famous beyond the Iron Curtain, she made many appearances at the likes of La Scala and the Met in addition to her extensive career at the Bolshoi.
We Are All Charlie? Not In Australia, Where It Would Be Illegal
“Satirical French publication Charlie Hebdo could not be printed in Australia under existing restrictions on free speech … Human Rights Commissioner Tim Wilson [said that] the restrictions contained in section 18c of the Racial Discrimination Act would ‘ensure it would be shut down’; he was supported in this position by media law experts.”