“Wasting no time, the Metropolitan Museum of Art has formed a committee to begin an international search for a replacement for Philippe de Montebello, who announced on Tuesday that he would retire after 30 years as the museum’s director.”
Tag: 01.10.08
A New Model For Small Studios?
Overture Films is not a major Hollywood studio. But you might be forgiven for thinking that it is. Overture’s business model involves keeping costs low, but marketing its films to a mass audience, and then reselling them to pay TV channels in short order. So far, the approach looks to be paying big dividends.
“Free” Radiohead Album #1 In CD Sales
“In a twist for the music industry’s digital revolution, “In Rainbows,” the new Radiohead album that attracted wide attention when it was made available three months ago as a digital download for whatever price fans chose to pay, ranked as the top-selling album in the country this week after the CD version hit record shops and other retailers.”
WGA/SAG Running The Double Team To Perfection
“The writers strike has quietly metamorphosed into the story of how Hollywood is being shut down by two unions, the Writers Guild of America and the Screen Actors Guild. This unprecedented guild alliance not only upended the Globes and promises to wreak havoc with the Oscars, but has Hollywood’s studio overlords re-evaluating their dismissals of the WGA as a bunch of radicals and crackpots too hapless to engineer a successful labor stoppage.”
Bringing Theatre To The Front Lines
A third-year drama student at Juilliard who also happens to be a Marine lance corporal “is hoping to prove to reluctant officials that serious theater [would] be excellent for troops in war zones.” The military has been a tough sell, convinced that their troops only want lowbrow entertainment. But at a trial performance at Camp Pendleton, there were promising signs.
A Composer Without Ideology
Judith Weir may not be as well-known as John Adams or as controversial as Elliott Carter, but she “has risen to the top of the tree and found a genuinely large public by simply being a wonderful composer… Weir’s unwillingness to be pinned down to a position is mirrored by her music, which is oblique, humorous and averse to striking obviously emotive attitudes.”
Honolulu Symphony On Road To Recovery?
Less than a month after it announced that it was unable to meet its biweekly payroll for musicians and staff, the Honolulu Symphony has raked in more than $450,000 in donations. The emergency fundraising campaign, which has raised four times what HSO officials had hoped for, has allowed the orchestra to repay half of the money it owes to its employees.
How We Listen To Music Today
“The reality is that the musical journey for listeners does not follow a one-directional arrow into the future; it shifts backwards, forwards and sideways. You might discover an established artist, reach into their back catalogue, perhaps explore their influences, context, contemporaries, rivals, successors, as well as anticipating their new work.”