Exactly two months after the company’s headquarters and school finished a major renovation, eight feet of water “tore through the building, smashing windows, destroying the newly installed floors, technology, music books, costumes, photos – everything.”
Tag: 01.03.16
‘We Can Get Up In Each Other’s Faces So Easily’ – Language In America In 2015
Linguist John McWhorter talks to Scott Timberg about ‘black bodies and the ‘blaccent’, gender and the pronoun ‘they’, and heated rhetoric and social media.
Is The LA Review Of Books A New Model For Literary Criticism?
Now publishing 1,500 pieces a year, with several new reviews, essays, and interviews on its main page each day, it has made its mark on criticism, spawning an “LARB style,” as Brian T. Edwards, a professor of English at Northwestern University, put it at a standing-room-only forum on the state of criticism at last year’s Modern Language Association convention.
Critic Once Argued For More Booing; Now He Takes It All Back
Martin Kettle: “I have got what I wished for – only now I don’t like it. … The threshold is so low that the boos rarely mean anything. Except, of course, to the person being booed. Performers and players have always lived with fear of failure and the audience. But why make these things worse so cavalierly?”
NBC’s TODAY Show Meets The Exciting Young Woman Conductor At The L.A. Phil
“TODAY’s Harry Smith speaks with Los Angeles Philharmonic [assistant] conductor Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla about what it’s like to be a young female in such a traditionally male role.” (video)
Fears Of Another All-White Academy Awards
“There’s a strong chance this year’s acting awards will once again be heavily, perhaps exclusively, white, despite the efforts of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to diversify the organization.”
The Prison Inmate Who Became Buddies With Samuel Beckett And Started Theater Companies In And Outside Of Prison
“In prison, Cluchey received an education on what it was to be on Beckett’s stage. It allowed him to love Beckett’s work. That, in turn, made him into a man Beckett himself could love.”
Five Booksellers Go Missing In Hong Kong
“It’s not uncommon in mainland China for company executives and dissidents to be detained for lengthy periods by the authorities or vanish without anyone claiming responsibility, but the disappearances are unprecedented in Hong Kong and have shocked the city’s publishing industry.”
As Accordion Store Departs, Music Row Is Gone
“‘Musically, it’s kind of depressing,’ Mario Tacca, an accordion player and longtime patron of Music Row, said. ‘I guess it’s part of the new world that we’re living in. The old world is kind of disappearing slowly. It’s kind of sad to see.'”
Hollywood And Fake Diversity
Director Lexi Alexander: “We now have Hollywood power people organizing diversity camps, which we get to read about in articles that include hilariously gung-ho diversity quotes from the worst … no let me write this in capitol letters THE WORST diversity offenders of Hollywood. And nobody bats an eye. Not a single entertainment reporter thinks to compare these people’s diversity record against the story they’re spinning.”