“In her new [memoir], Hedren alleges that the director made sexual approaches to her and regarded her as his personal property. … [Two biographers] argue that Hedren’s claims are not supported by others who worked on the films, or by the shooting schedules and other documents in Hitchcock’s archive.”
Pianist And Conductor Zoltán Kocsis Dead At 64
He began his solo piano career at age 18 and went on to tour the world and make award-winning recordings, most notably of Bartók and Debussy. Turning to conducting, he co-founded the Budapest Festival Orchestra with Iván Fischer and brought the Hungarian National Philharmonic to an international standard.
When Ballet And Modern Dance Meet – Just To Mess Around, With No Performance Pressure
“All too often, when ballet and modern dance meet, compromises are made: Dancers – and dances – turn to mush. That was exactly what Sara Mearns, the New York City Ballet principal, was trying to avoid when she asked the contemporary choreographer and dancer Jodi Melnick to work with her as part of a residency at Jacob’s Pillow last fall.”
Medusa, The Original ‘Nasty Woman’ – Hillary’s Hardly The Only Leader To Have The Comparison Thrown At Her
Here’s What Happens When You Ask Ivo Van Hove If Being Faithful To A Play’s Text Is Important
“I don’t know what ‘being faithful to a text’ means. There’s not one truth. As a director or actor, you have to give an interpretation of a line. I get 10 different people to say ‘I love you’ – three words, an objective truth – and yet each time it is spoken it is different. I’m known for my preparation. For actors, this is not a threat, it is freedom.”
Liam Scarlett Gets A Second Ballet Company To Make Dances On
What’s It Like Being A Juror For The Giller Prize? Think Fight Club
Toronto Art Museum Scanned An Ancient Object That Had Been Defying Understanding For 500 Years. They Found Something Interesting
“The discoveries relate to much more than technique. In an ever-more virtual world awash in technology and information, at a time when machines are increasingly more capable than humans, the show raises profound questions about ancient objects that, it turns out, can be made by human hands alone – treasures we can see and contemplate and touch, but never completely understand, exactly as their makers intended. That might be a big idea.”
Claim: The National Book Awards Have Been Corrupted And Demeaned
“When two friends of mine were on recent panels, discord was so intense that each judge picked one finalist, the kind of situation that can produce unpredictable horsetrading and compromise winners. Corruption can also enter in. The year I was a judge, one colleague tried to give the award to a family friend. Another judge supported the writer with whom she shared an agent.”
So You Idealize Victorian England? The Reality Was Rather More… Smelly Than You Might Have Thought
“To the modern sensibility, even the most carefully turned-out Victorian — male or female — reeked. Heavy perfumes covered bodily smells; onion juice was a popular hair tonic; dental hygiene was primitive and certainly not concerned with freshness of breath. Households were poorly ventilated, so various cooking smells clung to fabrics and damp walls.”
On The Eve Of An Election In A Divided Country, The Story Behind A Fanfare For The Common Man
Copland’s Fanfare is an American anthem. “It was written for the heartland, specifically Cincinnati. But it was also for America. In the end, it was not written for a general or a president, but for the “Common Man,” those“doing all the dirty work” in wartime – in Copland’s words. For those who voted and paid taxes. For those who rationed sugar and gasoline. For a nation united against a common foe. For those who waited for their young men and women to come home.”
This Fall Simon Rattle Is The Defining Conductor In New York
And he has lots to say in addition to his performances: “This is not an easy time for classical music here. I do only get asked this on this side of the pond. In Europe, with all the troubles, it’s alive and well and kicking. Orchestras are doing amazing things here as well, but it’s more of a struggle. One of the reasons orchestras in Europe went so gangbusters in education was that they saw that there wasn’t much music education here, and they said, ‘We’re frightened what will happen along the road when people haven’t grown up with this.’”
For ‘Saturday Night Live,’ The Blessing And The Curse Of This Election
The Making Of A Countertenor
The L.A. Opera Casts A White Man To Play A Pharoah, And Protests Arrive On Schedule
This Week In Understanding Audiences: Interactive Theatre, Arts Video And Artificial Intelligence
This Week: Theatre used to be more interactive – can it be again?… There’s an awful lot of arts video out there – but what do audiences want?… Can you shame an arts organization into being more diverse?… More orchestras are getting out of their concert halls… Can artificial intelligence connect us more closely to art?
This Week’s AJ Highlights: Ominous Orchestra Results? New Arts Journalism? Accountable Algorithms?
This Week: Record ticket sales at the Chicago Symphony but still a budget problem…Wall Street Journal cuts arts coverage and Boston Globe gets a subsidized critic…Why did Shakespeare’s Globe fire its director?…Two cities on opposite sides of a border, share common arts culture… Who will hold intelligent machines accountable?
Top Posts From AJBlogs For The Weekend 11.06.16
This Week In Understanding Audiences: Interactive Theatre, Arts Video And Artificial Intelligence This Week: Theatre used to be more interactive – can it be again?… There’s an awful lot of arts video out there – but what do audiences want?… Can you shame an arts organization into … read more
AJBlog: AJ Arts Audience Published 2016-11-06
Born in Vail
Vail Dance Festival: Re-Mix NYC performs at City Center, November 3 through 6. Vail Re-Mix performers in 1-2-3-4-5-6 (L to R): Lil Buck, Michelle Dorrance, Robert Fairchild, and Melissa Toogood. Photo: Erin Baiano Damien Woetzel … read more
AJBlog: Dancebeat Published 2016-11-06
Bob Cranshaw, 1932-2016
Bassist Bob Cranshaw succumbed to bone cancer yesterday at his home in New York City. He was 83. He may be best remembered as Sonny Rollins’s bassist for more than half a century, but Cranshaw’s … read more
AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2016-11-05
Lit Crawl L.A./ North Hollywood
THE other night I ventured out to Los Angeles’s North Hollywood neighborhood for the latest installment of Lit Crawl L.A. This annual night out has been going since 2013, but for various reasons I’ve … read more
AJBlog: CultureCrashPublished 2016-11-04
