“Assistance from FEMA, along with $10 million in flood insurance, will cover a substantial portion of the cost,” including “the replacement of two Steinway concert grand pianos and the console of the Martin Foundation Concert Organ. … But insurance isn’t enough. [The organization’s CEO] estimates the symphony is $3 million to $10 million short.”
Author: Laura Collins Hughes
Whither The Cultural Relevance Of Fiction?
“Without a doubt, the next male or female Hemingway, Faulkner or Fitzgerald is out there somewhere, hard at work. But with the exception of a few ambitious-and obsessively competitive-fiction writers and their agents and editors, no one goes to a current novel or story for the ineffable private and public clarity fiction once provided.”
If Box-Office Futures Are Banned, Firm Will Launch Anyway
“Robert Swagger, the chief executive of Veriana, … said that because his company’s exchange, which cost more than $10 million to develop over the last three years, and its first contract had been approved by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, he believes they should be ‘grandfathered’ into law.”
LACMA To End Fiscal Year With Surplus, Boost Spending
“[I]f the ‘double-dip’ recession that some economists fear should occur, LACMA is prepared to repeat the drill from the recent downturn by curtailing spending to avoid large deficits. The hiring freeze has been removed, [LACMA President Melody] Kanschat said, but the coming year’s budget calls for adding just three positions to the current staff of 325.”
UCLA Live Officially Drops Its International Theatre Fest
“The series will offer a reduced number of individual performances in dance, jazz, world music and more — 47 this season, down from 85 performances last year. But the entire theater festival was a casualty of budgetary and other economic factors.”
‘My Heart Sank,’ Librarian Testifies At First Folio Theft Trial
When Raymond Scott brought the book to the Folger Shakespeare Library in 2008, librarian Richard Kuhta testified, ”He started flicking through the pages very quickly showing me it was a first edition. I was startled by the way in which the book was being handled and by the sudden realisation that the man seemed to know it was a first edition.”
All Across NYC, Pianos Unleashed
“Monday was the first day on which 60 pianos could be played on street corners and in parks around the city as part of a public art project called ‘Play Me, I’m Yours.’ There were double-takes as people walked by: A piano? Anyone can sit down and play anything?”
Asian Dancers Reign At USA Int’l Ballet Competition
Almost half of the competition’s 34 finalists are from Asian countries, reflecting an increase in ballet activity there. “Among the Asian finalists are 16 dancers from the Philippines, South Korea, Japan, China and Taiwan.”
Reporters And Editors Join Rush To Screenwriting
“Journalists crossing over into other writing fields is not new. … But in recent years, David Kinahan of the Writers Guild of Canada says there’s been a definite increase in the number of journalists trying their hand at TV and film writing – a trend he attributes, in part, to a tightening job market as news outlets consolidate and struggle to stay relevant in the digital era.”
Where To Reinter Caravaggio?
“The dispute centres on whether his remains should be reinterred on the Tuscan coast close to where they have lain unmarked for 400 years, or moved and reburied in Milan alongside other renowned sons of Lombardy.” Where he originated, however, is a matter of some debate.