“The dances that Louis XIV and Voltaire and Pushkin cherished did not survive. We can smile at that now, because we know how ballet, phoenixlike, rose again from its ashes; how, protean, it changed its nature with each new era.”
Tag: 01.05.10
How Pierre Boulez Gets Orchestra Musicians To Swallow Modernism
“When I am in front of an orchestra, the players know I have quite a lot of experience behind me. Therefore there is a kind of – respect is too hard a word – agreement that I know my business. I try to persuade them as to the merits of a given score without forcing them to swallow something they don’t want to swallow.”
Fresno Metropolitan Museum Closes
“An anchor in the city’s downtown cultural arts district for more than 25 years, the Met had struggled financially since it reopened in November 2008 after a three-year renovation that went far over budget. Something like the Met ‘will rise again, but it will be years from now,'” the museum’s board president said.
Philip K. Dick’s Heirs: Google Phone Name An Infringement
“Mr. Dick’s 1968 novel, ‘Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?,’ which served as the basis for the 1982 cult film ‘Blade Runner,’ follows a bounty hunter chasing androids known as Nexus-6 models.” The author’s daughter “believes Google referenced that work in coming up with the name for its new phone,” the Nexus One, which “runs Google’s Android operating system.”
Chicago Symphony Principal Flutist Returns, Leaving L.A. Phil
The internationally known Mathieu Dufour had taken a one-year leave to play principal flute with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, with the apparent intent of staying there. The 37-year-old Dufour told his once-and-future colleagues in Chicago of L.A., “They have no tradition there.”
As B. Dalton Shutters, A Look At Its Rise And Fall
“[B]ack in its day, B. Dalton Bookseller was one of the nation’s top retailers and on the cutting edge of technology. Founded by the Dayton department stores in 1966, it underwent phenomenal growth in the 1970s and 1980s, eventually expanding to nearly 800 locations in 1986, when Barnes & Noble bought it. Yes, it was a different time.”
21st-Century Film Tough For Women? How ‘Bout 19th?
“[I]n 1895 when a 21-year-old named Alice Guy proposed using cinema to capture more than parades and trains, her boss indulgently called it ‘a young girl’s thing.’ … [T]hat girl became the first director and head of production at the French studio Gaumont and an early entrepreneur in the American movie industry.”
Arrested In Theatre Director’s Death, Suspect Knew Victim
“Los Angeles police detectives have arrested a man in connection with the slaying of Bennett Bradley, a longtime director and producer at the Fountain Theatre in Hollywood. … Police had initially suggested that Bradley was the possible target of a robbery.”
Avatar Breaks Another Record, For Film Piracy
Director James Cameron “had predicted that the film’s 3D technology would deter online theft, but almost one million pirate copies were downloaded within seven days of its release.”
Rescue In The Works For Kirkus Reviews?
“Eric Liebetrau, managing editor, said in an e-mail message that Nielsen and Kirkus were ‘in the process of working out an arrangement with an acquiring company to continue the publication of the magazine’.”