01.19.15 – Page 2 – ArtsJournal Wayback

We Thought We’d Never Hear Górecki’s Fourth Symphony. Now We Can – And It’s A Knockout

Everyone had thought that the Polish composer – whose Third Symphony actually hit the pop charts in 1992, 15 years after it was written – hadn’t completed the Fourth when he died in 2010. Turns out he did – and Mark Swed says it’s “a major symphony and possibly a great one.”

How To Care For Your Feet When You Torture Them By Dancing En Pointe

Advice from a ballet master at Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo.

Wallace Shawn Says He’s A “D-List Actor Who Does Animal Voices For A Living”

“Being an actor is a strange thing that came up in my life, and I’ve had great good luck with it … I take myself much more seriously as a writer, but I understand why people might not like my writing. I mean I really understand why it’s not as popular as the writing of some other people. … I actually don’t understand why I haven’t been taken more seriously as an actor, in the sense of being given better parts.”

Trying To Give Everyone A Good View Has Made Theaters More Exclusive, Not Less

Prewar theaters “had a greater capacity at the lower price levels than at the higher, a contrast to today, where there are very few cheap seats and they are all at the very back or the very front. … Seat prices have been levelled up rather than down on the grounds that all enjoy an uninterrupted view of the actor.”

Theatre Companies In Southern California To Release A Plan To Bring Diversity To The Stage

“Tim Dang, producing artistic director of East West Players, has written an initiative that calls for at least 51% of those employed by Southern California theater companies by 2019 to be people of color, women or those younger than 35.”

Amazon Is Making TV, Of Course – And Now It’s Going To Make Movies, Too

“‘Whereas it typically takes 39 to 52 weeks for theatrical movies to premiere on subscription video services, Amazon Original Movies will premiere on Prime Instant Video in the U.S. just 4 to 8 weeks after their theatrical debut,’ the company said in a press release.”

Computers Are Learning To Read Humans’ Emotions

“Our faces are organs of emotional communication; by some estimates, we transmit more data with our expressions than with what we say … But since the nineteen-nineties a small number of researchers have been working to give computers the capacity to read our feelings and react, in ways that have come to seem startlingly human.” One of the most successful is an Egyptian woman running a startup near Boston.

This Was The Cultural Revolution That Changed The World Of The Late 1800s (And We’re Still Benefiting)

“Eating canned peaches in the winter, buying a chocolate bar at the corner newsstand, hearing an opera in your living room, and immortalizing baby’s first steps in a snapshot all marked a radical shift in human experience. Replacing scarcity with abundance and capturing the previously ephemeral—these mundane pleasures defied nature as surely as did horseless carriages.”

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