“The rhetoric softened noticeably … [as] management and musicians of the Minnesota Orchestra agreed Wednesday to create a ‘fresh start to negotiations’. … Meanwhile, union and management negotiators at the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra also met Wednesday for the first time in nearly two months.”
Tag: 01.03.13
Achieving Mindfulness, Or How I Learned To Think Like Sherlock Holmes (A Little)
Maria Konnikova: “What I found … was that it would be hard work indeed to even begin to approximate the essence of the detective’s approach to the world: his ever-mindful mindset and his relentless mental energy. Holmes was a man eternally on, who relished that on-ness and floundered in its absence.”
Dancercise And Moldy Jokes From 1920s Chorus Girls
Antics of Arabella, a comic strip that ran in a New York City tabloid, “featured photographs of Broadway ‘chorus girls’ demonstrating stretches that showed off their bodies while they told mildly funny jokes.”
Computers Writing Music (But Is It Any Good?)
“We have taught a computer to write musical scores. Now we can produce modern classical music at the touch of a button.”
Southbank Chief: Why The Arts Need More Funding
“More funding should be put into the arts not less, says the artistic director of Europe’s largest arts complex, London’s Southbank Centre.”
Adapting Words For Screen Is A Challenge
Revisions are not any easier when the starting point involves someone else’s words.
The Vienna Philharmonic’s Battle With Integration
“At 11 a.m. on the first day of the year, critics automatically scan the Musikvereinsaal stage to see how many women have been permitted to join the main event. In January 2012, there were just two, an apparent act of defiance against public punition.”
Patti Page, 85
“[Her] gossamer voice on ‘The Tennessee Waltz,’ ‘The Doggie in the Window’ and other 1950s hits offered a soothing counterpart to the revolutionary new sound of rock ‘n’ roll.”