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Alfred Hitchcock Harassed And Bullied Tippi Hedren? That’s Not What We Remember, Say Cast And Crew Of ‘The Birds’

PEOPLE Posted: November 9, 2016 1:04 pm

“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.”

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Read the story in The Observer (UK) Published: 11.06.16

Pianist And Conductor Zoltán Kocsis Dead At 64

PEOPLE Posted: November 8, 2016 9:25 pm

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.

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Read the story in Yahoo! (AP) Published: 11.06.16

When Ballet And Modern Dance Meet – Just To Mess Around, With No Performance Pressure

DANCE Posted: November 8, 2016 9:03 am

“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.”

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Read the story in New York Times Published: 11.06.16

Medusa, The Original ‘Nasty Woman’ – Hillary’s Hardly The Only Leader To Have The Comparison Thrown At Her

ISSUES Posted: November 8, 2016 7:02 am

“Indeed, almost every influential female figure has been photoshopped with snaky hair: Martha Stewart, Condoleezza Rice, Madonna, Nancy Pelosi, Oprah Winfrey, Angela Merkel. (Have a few minutes? Do a Google Image search: Type in a famous woman’s name and the word Medusa.)”

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Read the story in The Atlantic Published: 11.06.16

Here’s What Happens When You Ask Ivo Van Hove If Being Faithful To A Play’s Text Is Important

THEATRE Posted: November 8, 2016 6:29 am

“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.”

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Read the story in The Observer (UK) Published: 11.06.16

Liam Scarlett Gets A Second Ballet Company To Make Dances On

DANCE Posted: November 8, 2016 5:16 am

Starting next year. the young British choreographer, currently Artist in Residence at the Royal Ballet, will also be an Artistic Associate at Queensland Ballet.

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Read the story in Limelight (Australia) Published: 11.06.16

What’s It Like Being A Juror For The Giller Prize? Think Fight Club

WORDS Posted: November 7, 2016 2:01 pm

“The experience was like being in a war,” says novelist Alison Pick, who served on last year’s jury. “Other than the actual act of writing books, I would say it was the most intense experience of my literary career.”

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Read the story in The Globe and Mail (Canada) Published: 11.06.16

Toronto Art Museum Scanned An Ancient Object That Had Been Defying Understanding For 500 Years. They Found Something Interesting

VISUAL Posted: November 7, 2016 12:12 pm

“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.”

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Read the story in The Globe and Mail (Canada) Published: 11.06.16

Claim: The National Book Awards Have Been Corrupted And Demeaned

WORDS Posted: November 7, 2016 11:31 am

“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.”

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Read the story in The Daily Beast Published: 11.06.16

So You Idealize Victorian England? The Reality Was Rather More… Smelly Than You Might Have Thought

ISSUES Posted: November 7, 2016 11:02 am

“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.”

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Read the story in Washington Post Published: 11.06.16

On The Eve Of An Election In A Divided Country, The Story Behind A Fanfare For The Common Man

MUSIC Posted: November 7, 2016 10:31 am

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.”

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Read the story in Cincinnati Enquirer Published: 11.06.16

This Fall Simon Rattle Is The Defining Conductor In New York

MUSIC Posted: November 7, 2016 8:31 am

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.’”

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Read the story in The New York Times Published: 11.06.16

For ‘Saturday Night Live,’ The Blessing And The Curse Of This Election

MEDIA Posted: November 7, 2016 6:15 am

Sure, Alec Baldwin’s Donald Trump is so mimetic that he’s drowned out the actual candidate in our minds, and sure, Kate McKinnon’s Hillary Clinton is a “savage yet sympathetic portrait of political thirst,” but the best SNL moments came on the edges of the election.

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Read the story in The New York Times Published: 11.06.16

The Making Of A Countertenor

MUSIC Posted: November 7, 2016 5:00 am

Anthony Costanzo has been in demand for decades – but only to sing very old or very modern roles. That is the curse and blessing of the countertenor.

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Read the story in Los Angeles Times Published: 11.06.16

The L.A. Opera Casts A White Man To Play A Pharoah, And Protests Arrive On Schedule

ISSUES Posted: November 7, 2016 4:00 am

Will L.A. Opera’s claim to colorblind casting – and the need for a very fit countertenor – help calm the troubled waters?

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Read the story in Los Angeles Times Published: 11.06.16

This Week In Understanding Audiences: Interactive Theatre, Arts Video And Artificial Intelligence

AUDIENCE, TOP STORIES Posted: November 6, 2016 2:13 pm

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?

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Read the story in ArtsJournal Audience Published: 11.06.16

This Week’s AJ Highlights: Ominous Orchestra Results? New Arts Journalism? Accountable Algorithms?

TOP STORIES Posted: November 6, 2016 1:41 pm

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?

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Read the story in diacritical | Douglas McLennan Published: 11.06.16

Top Posts From AJBlogs For The Weekend 11.06.16

AJBlogs Posted: November 6, 2016 12:00 pm

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

 

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How Can Theatre Be More Like Basketball?

AUDIENCE, THEATRE Posted: November 6, 2016 8:30 am

In a video, Diane Paulus, the American Repertory Theatre’s artistic director, explains. “The old vaudeville houses were interactive; in gilded opera theatres, the lights used to stay up, the crowd as much of a spectacle and dramatic social circus as the one that was happening on stage.”

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Read the story in The Big Think Published: 11.06.16

Octavia Spencer Beat The Hollywood Odds – And Now She’s Actively Changing Them

PEOPLE Posted: November 4, 2016 11:02 am

“Ms. Spencer is African-American, female, in her 40s and not twig-shaped – Venn-diagram those traits atop the circle marked ‘Available Parts,’ and the overlapping area shrinks to pea-size.” Yet she’s carved out a career, earned an Oscar, and now branched into producing.

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Read the story in New York Times Published: 11.06.16

  • Lookback: on joining the National Counncil on the Arts
    From 2005: I went to my framer yesterday afternoon and picked up the presidential commission for my appointment to the National Council on the Arts. It’s a splendidly old-fashioned document, about twice the size of a college diploma, printed in copperplate script on thick cream paper by the Bureau of Engraving... Read more
    Source: About Last Night Published on: 2021-01-26
  • Almanac: Thornton Wilder on hope
    “Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.” Thornton Wilder, The Eighth Day Continue reading Almanac: Thornton Wilder on hope at About Last Night.... Read more
    Source: About Last Night Published on: 2021-01-26
  • Almanac: Gore Vidal on the will to power
    “To want power is corruption already.” Gore Vidal, The Best Man Continue reading Almanac: Gore Vidal on the will to power at About Last Night.... Read more
    Source: About Last Night Published on: 2021-01-25
  • Just because: Gore Vidal talks about The Best Man
    In an undated TV interview, Gore Vidal talks about Franklin J. Schaffner’s 1964 screen version of The Best Man, his 1960 play, and the ideas about politics on which it was based: (This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appear in this space each... Read more
    Source: About Last Night Published on: 2021-01-24
  • Joseph Conyers on Being an Artist Entrepreneur
    Check out this week’s episode of my show Arts Engines with Joseph Conyers, The Philadelphia Orchestra bassist and entrepreneur, as he shares the passions that have fueled his success!... Read more
    Source: Aaron Dworkin Published on: 2021-01-23
  • Looking for a Fugitive Rainbow—a Very Transient “Gift” to the Bidens
    Laura Baptiste, the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s (SAAM’s) always helpful chief of communications and public affairs, found herself fielding misinformation disseminated in a number of news reports after Wednesday’s Presidential Inauguration festivities. She scrambled to set the record straight about Robert Duncanson‘s suddenly famous “Landscape with Rainbow,” after several published... Read more
    Source: CultureGrrl Published on: 2021-01-22
  • Verbal virtuosity
    In today’s Wall Street Journal drama column, I review Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey’s Shaw! Shaw! Shaw!. Here’s an excerpt. *  *  * Webcasts of the plays of George Bernard Shaw have been scarce during the pandemic. It’s a shame, for Shaw’s plays are for the most part comedies of ideas, political and... Read more
    Source: About Last Night Published on: 2021-01-22
  • Jump-starting an arts revival
    In today’s Wall Street Journal “Sightings” column, I talk about how to jump-start a post-pandemic revival of the arts in America. Here’s an excerpt. *  *  * As everybody with even the slightest interest in the arts knows, the coming of Covid-19 has had a catastrophic effect on creative institutions in every... Read more
    Source: About Last Night Published on: 2021-01-22
  • Replay: Alfred Hitchcock talks to Dick Cavett
    Alfred Hitchcock is interviewed by Dick Cavett on TV in 1972: (This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday) Continue reading Replay: Alfred Hitchcock talks to Dick Cavett at About Last Night.... Read more
    Source: About Last Night Published on: 2021-01-22
  • Almanac: Tolstoy on happiness
    “Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly.” Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace (trans. Louise and Aylmer Maude) Continue reading Almanac: Tolstoy on happiness at About Last Night.... Read more
    Source: About Last Night Published on: 2021-01-22
  • Almanac: Ambrose Bierce on the President of the United States
    “PRESIDENT, n. The leading figure in a small group of men of whom—and of whom only—it is positively known that immense numbers of their countrymen did not want any of them for President.” Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary Continue reading Almanac: Ambrose Bierce on the President of the United States at... Read more
    Source: About Last Night Published on: 2021-01-21
  • Ominous Juxtaposition? Biden Flanked by Duncanson’s “Rainbow” & Statue of a Murdered President
    In a jolting inauguration installation, marred by unintentionally dark symbolism that, hopefully, wasn’t discerned by the Bidens, this afternoon’s celebration after the joyful swearing-in of the new President and Vice President included a brief walk through the Capitol rotunda led by Missouri Senator Roy Blunt, chairman of the Senate Republican... Read more
    Source: CultureGrrl Published on: 2021-01-20
  • Snapshot: FDR’s 1933 inauguration
    Sound footage of the presidential inauguration of Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933: (This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday) Continue reading Snapshot: FDR’s 1933 inauguration at About Last Night.... Read more
    Source: About Last Night Published on: 2021-01-20
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