Tom Service: “If the other 2,399 seats are as good as the one I was sitting in, I think that the Philharmonie could be one of the most dynamic and exciting places to hear orchestral music in the world – as well as the most fun simply to sit in, thanks to the combination of intimacy and imagination of the interior.”
Tag: 01.15.15
Olafur Eliasson Tries To Capture In Pigments Every Point On The Light Spectrum
And he’s named the project after J.M.W. Turner, whom he sees as a forerunner in the endeavor.
Top Posts From AJBlogs 01.15.15
Passion and Permission
AJBlog: The Artful Manager Published 2015-01-15
The Heard Museum Loses Its Director To …
AJBlog: Real Clear Arts Published 2015-01-15
The Artist in the 21st Century
AJBlog: CultureCrash Published 2015-01-15
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Eight Films Nominated For Oscars
“Usually, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences heaps the honors on the more serious side of filmmaking. But on Thursday, the Oscars showed a sense of humor.”
Actors In Failed Musical Tour Sue Producers
“Actors from last year’s failed tour of the musical Copacabana are mounting legal action against the show’s producers for more than £30,000 in unpaid wages. The news comes as it has emerged that planned dates for 2015 have hit further problems.”
How Do You Make A Stage Comedy About A Kidney Transplant?
Michael Hollinger’s Under the Skin “started with a smirk – at a 2008 New York Times ‘Ethicist’ column, about a pair of siblings vying to supply their aging father with a kidney.” Hollinger ended up exploring a whole new concept: kidney-worthiness.
Lincoln Center and New York Philharmonic Move Into Opera (Look Out, Met!)
“For years, the Metropolitan Opera has gently encroached on the symphonic terrain of its Lincoln Center neighbors with orchestral concerts at Carnegie Hall. Now the shoe is on the other foot: Lincoln Center and the New York Philharmonic said on Wednesday that they would join forces to mount several fully staged opera productions” of acclaimed new works from Europe that the Met seems too risk-averse to touch.
How Ironic Is It That Our Most Celebrated “Un-Blockbuster” Theatre Composer Has A Hit Movie?
“Stephen Sondheim is the antibody of the blockbuster, the antithesis of mass taste. He writes for questing minds, disdaining sunshine, inhabiting the deep, dark woods of moral ambiguity. At his most challenging, in Sweeney Todd, he elicits our sympathies for cannibalism. At his gloomiest, in Company, he seems to conclude that man’s fate is always to be alone. Sondheim is not an easy date, never a sell-out.”