The San Diego Chamber Orchestra has hired Tyler Richards Hewes, production manager of San Diego’s Mainly Mozart, as its new executive director.
Tag: 01.13.08
Footballer Falls For Dance
Elite pro footballer Graham Taylor has taken up dance. “He has also noticed that, as with many Premiership squads, British dancers are in the minority in the country’s top companies, and he thinks there are a few things the two worlds could learn from each other.”
What’s Next For The Met Museum?
“The Met has remained a bastion of curatorial authority, where curators, not board members or directors, take the lead in conceiving exhibitions based on sound scholarship. “I keep them in line but they keep me in line,” Mr. de Montebello once said of the Met’s 100 plus curators. Will his successor continue that approach?”
Pinchas Zukerman On American Culture:
“We’re not cultivated people, as a culture. We have a vast culture here, yet we’re more divided than ever before. Most of it has to do with government not wanting to cultivate its own product. We’d better start looking at that soon, or this is going to become a jungle.”
Miami’s Coconut Grove Plans Rebirth
“Twenty months after South Florida’s oldest regional theater abruptly shut down during its 50th anniversary season, the company’s board has crafted a vision for a reborn Coconut Grove Playhouse.”
American Movie Theatres Convert To Digital
“By the end of 2005, there were fewer than 200 auditoriums equipped with digital-projection equipment in the United States. At the end of 2007, there were about 2,500, and by the end of this year, there’ll be at least double that number.”
EMI To Cut 2000 Jobs
“EMI will be split into two main divisions, one handling the creative side of the business and one dealing with back office.The aim is to reduce the division’s British marketing budget from 40 per cent of sales to the industry norm of 20 per cent.”
Anna Netrebko, Star
“At the age of 36, Anna Netrebko is certainly as substantial a star as any in the new operatic firmament. The evidence of the Russian soprano’s gigawattage just keeps piling up.”
What Made de Montebello Successful
Today “great museums and universities have a hard time finding even a modestly competent director; one person rarely possesses the necessary array of talent. Philippe De Montebello could certainly play all the parts–administrator, scholar, sweet-talker, politician, fund-raiser, collector, showman–but simple versatility was not what finally distinguished his tenure.”
Hitting The Big Time With Self-Publishing
“Self-publishing was once a consolation prize for a pipe-dreamer. But today it’s possible for writers to bypass publishers, then score lucrative contracts with them once their books are proved.”