“The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra will become the first orchestra in America to operate three venues, with Encore Park as inventory” added to the 6,000-seat Chastain Park Amphitheater in Buckhead and the 1,750-seat Symphony Hall in Midtown. The result is that we’re becoming the largest music broker in the Southeast, with 20,000 total seats to fill and a year-round schedule of performances.”
Tag: 01.13.08
A Reorganization Of UK Arts Funding Roils The Arts
“Under current proposals, three-quarters of the council’s 990 clients will get funding increases and 80 organisations will receive cash for the first time. But where there are gains, there are also the inevitable losses. Many companies face closure and hundreds of shocked employees are contemplating redundancy. But what has rankled more than anything has been the way the process has been handled.”
Inside The Golden Globes
By airtime, the place was jammed. As the six presenters sat onstage, the photogs clicked like crazy, while a foreign journalist wondered aloud, “Who ARE these people, does anybody know?”
Atonement, Sweeney Todd, Take Golden Globe Prizes
“The mood was mostly subdued in the press conference, filled with several hundred journalists, media executives, HFPA members and celebrity publicists.”
Research Says: We Think With Our Bodies As Well As Brains
“The brain is often envisioned as something like a computer, and the body as its all-purpose tool. But a growing body of new research suggests that something more collaborative is going on – that we think not just with our brains, but with our bodies.”
Two Minds About Slatkin’s Washington Years
“The National Symphony Orchestra’s Leonard Slatkin, who will step down from his directorship in June, is not in the Bernstein-Karajan camp. Nevertheless, he has been a significant figure in Washington’s musical history for more than a dozen years now and his overall effect on the NSO is likely to be the subject of controversy for years to come.”
LA County Museum Shows Off New Collection
“LACMA’s Modern collection doesn’t have a new building, but it does have 22,000 square feet of expansive, handsomely redesigned galleries that take up the entire plaza level of the Ahmanson Building. Talk about night and day. A perusal of the new installation is a clear demonstration that a new building is nice, and it can have beneficial effects for art, but a transformative art collection is infinitely superior.”
Daniel Barenboim Becomes Citizen Of Palestine
“The Israeli pianist and conductor has taken Palestinian citizenship and said he believed his rare new status could serve a model for peace between the two peoples.”
The Man Remaking Paramount Studios
Since taking over from the movie veterans Sherry Lansing and Jonathan Dolgen in early 2005, Brad Grey has sent the studio on a ride that turned queasy even by Hollywood standards.
Spain Weighs A Monumental Issue
What does a country do with the monuments built to glorify leaders of deposed regimes? Some tear down the big statues and edifaces. Spain is addressing what to do with the bric-a-brac left from the Franco years…