“Having begun its first season three years ago, the videogame oriented content continues to make waves among the more, erm, ‘reserved’ concertgoer crowd. While many programmers and conductors appear to roll their eyes at such a debasement of their art, they still gladly take the money that’s off-setting the orchestra’s annual 2.8% decline in sales. “
Category: AUDIENCE
Google Books Is A 21st Century Library For Everyone
“Friday’s ruling is a big deal not just for search engine giants, copyright lawyers, authors, and publishers, but also for ordinary people. Only a generation ago, doing scholarly research in the way that Google Books now makes possible was a game only academics could play.”
Thinking That Online Life Isn’t ‘Real’ Life Is Both Wrong And Harmful
“Beyond assuming that physical proximity is inherently more meaningful than whatever’s happening online (it’s not), much of this growing unease betrays a lack of digital fluency.”
What’s Wrong With The Classical Concert Experience In The 21st Century? Maybe The Way We’re Mucking About With It
Philip Clark: “For decades, all the talk has been about how musicians dress; about the timing and duration of concerts; about the historical distance that audiences feel from classical music … Orchestras and ensembles have been experimenting with these strategies for years. … All this stuff – plunging string quartets into the dark, worrying about what shirts to wear or applauding between movements – speaks of a poverty of ideas. If you have nothing to say about content, talk instead about procedure.”
Classical Music Isn’t Exclusive Or ‘Elitist’ Unless We Make It That Way
Brigid Delaney: “Classical music is incredible. It doesn’t matter if you weren’t brought up with it, or don’t know how to pronounce the composers’ names … I wasn’t, I can’t, and it still lets me in … Experiencing this magic doesn’t ask much of you – just that you pay attention and surrender to it.”
Technology And The Museum Of The Future
“The forces rocking the technology world—cheaper screens, miniaturized mechanics and increased computing power—are prompting a rich period of experimentation in exhibit design. For museums, such advancements could attract diverse visitors, lure young people and change the way audiences learn about art, science and nature.”
Has The Brazilian Audience For Broadway Musicals Disappeared For Good?
“The cast of ‘The Full Monty,’ which opened in Rio last week, rehearsed in a donated room of a barren mall. The producer and director, Tadeu Aguiar, reused sets and costumes from his other shows — although the police uniform stripper costumes were created from scratch. Instead of a salary, the cast was offered a cut of the box office. With no union to protect the actors, and unemployment surpassing 8 percent, ‘there are a lot of people who will do it for nothing,’ said one actor, André Dias.”
The Separation Between Art And Life, If There Is One
“The art that Plath and Hughes made gnaws perpetually over questions of blood and power, attraction and repulsion. When they first met, she bit him on the cheek; this act, like her last, migrated into poetry and so might be thought fair game for conjecture and analysis.”
Hollywood: Are Viewers Lazy, Or Is It Filmmakers Who Fit That Description?
“Just a few years back, we had relatively sophisticated fare such as The Dark Knight hitting cinemas. If Christopher Nolan’s movie were to be remade today, would it be titled Batman v Joker?”
We Are All Paparazzi Now
“Little more than a decade ago, stars like Paris Hilton would ‘inadvertently’ leak their plans to the paparazzi — part of the wink-wink symbiotic relationship that fueled their tabloid fame. But what once took an army of clamoring paparazzi can now be tweeted, Instagrammed, Snapchatted, and Vined.”