“Keeping all the efforts untangled can be challenging. Is the theme park show a miniversion of the Broadway one? What about the Disney Cruise Line production? Here’s what we know about the live-performance versions of Frozen underway.”
Category: AUDIENCE
The What-Classical-Music-Needs-To-Change List To End All What-Classical-Music-Needs-To-Change Lists
It seems the classical web has acquired its own version of The Onion and Clickhole.
You Binge-Watch TV So Maybe Now You’ll Binge-Read Books (One Publisher’s Bet)
“Farrar Straus and Giroux believes the TV model can lend momentum to a book series. In a move that takes as much from Victorian novels as from limited-run Netflix series, the publisher’s FSG Originals imprint is experimenting with serialized fiction.”
How The Internet Is Shaping Our Aesthetic Experiences
“For years technology had seemed to be the masculine form of the word culture. If you wanted to sell men on a culture story, you did well to frame it as a tech story — a story about the plumbing or stock price of Netflix rather than a story about the pixels that constitute ‘Bloodline.’ Technology is built stuff that aims to be elegant and engaging. Apps are founded on science in the same sense that a watercolor is founded on science, where the chemistry of pigments and the physics of brush strokes are the science. But the resulting painting, if successful, hints at transcendence or at least luminous silence, something whereof we cannot speak.”
How SFMoMA Is Changing San Francisco
In many ways, the unveiling of the new SFMOMA caps a period of transformation that speaks to forces at play in many U.S. cities — the rehabilitation of what had once been dilapidated urban cores. But the museum is also indicative of the role that high culture can play in that process. With its very presence, a museum can help shift the dynamics of a neighborhood.
Why Algorithms Can’t Replace People In Coming Up With Successful Television
“In some ways, it’s a counter-intuitive argument: Regardless of what you think of Netflix or Amazon’s core business, their studios have produced some of the best television in recent years.”
Amsterdam To Tourists: Go Visit The Hague For A Change, We’re Drowning Here!
The Dutch capital’s huge success as a vacation destination “has spawned eye-poppingly long queues outside the biggest attractions … so much so that Amsterdam officials recently decided to ‘make some savings’ in its marketing budget … [and] Mayor Eberhard van der Laan has appealed directly to visitors to seek accommodation in other often overlooked cities such as Rotterdam, The Hague and Utrecht.”
Lin-Manuel Miranda: Ticket Bots Are Ruining Broadway
“The markup on resale tickets is so lucrative, earning brokers millions of dollars per year, that they happily risk prosecution and treat civil penalties as the cost of business.”
Using Graphic Design To Guide Concertgoers Who Don’t Read Music Through An Orchestral Work
“The Toronto Symphony Orchestra’s ‘listening guides’ make use of symbols and Morse code-like notation to aid the experience of a live performance. We talked to their creator, Hannah Chan-Hartley, about how she is helping the TSO to visualise its repertoire.”
Massive Plagiarism In The Age Of Self-Publishing
“The offending books often stay up for weeks or even months at a time before they’re detected, usually by an astute reader. For the authors, this intrusion goes beyond threatening their livelihood. Writing a novel is a form of creative expression, and having it stolen by someone else, many say, can feel like a personal violation.”