There were record revenues last year. So why are movie theater companies leaking red ink and watching their share prices dive for the bottom? Not just too many theaters, but too many big theaters have been built in the past few years – and now there’s a glut. – The Economist 01/21/00
Tag: 01.21.00
SAN FRANCISCO BALLET –
– nominated for two Olivier theatre awards after London debut. – San Francisco Chronicle
MAKE UP YOUR MIND
Reviews for John Harbison’s “Great Gatsby” were all over the map. A third loved it. Another third thought it awful, and another regretted that it didn’t work, though they wanted it to. “As a whole, the reviews present a more dismaying portrait of the profession of music criticism than they do of ‘The Great Gatsby.’ The opera was criticized for both being too old-fashioned and traditional, and for being too modern and ‘cacophonous’ in sound.” – Boston Globe
- Harbison undaunted by reviews. Already planning for revivals and subsequent performances. – Boston Globe 01/21/00
THREE-CORNERED HAT
Placido Domingo’s role with the Los Angeles Opera expands – singer, conductor and director. – Los Angeles Times
TEMIRKANOV’S DEBUT
The Baltimore Symphony’s new music director of an aristocrat. “If his tenure builds on the strengths of this performance, the Temirkanov years could be legendary.” – Washington Post
- Previously:GETTING TO KNOW YOU: The Baltimore Symphony gets to know Yuri Temirkanov, its new music director. He’s definitely not a timebeater. – Baltimore Sun 01/20/00
MODERN CLASSIC
“Six years after its premiere, John Adams’ Violin Concerto is already a repertory staple — which is to say that interpretations vary as widely as those of the Beethoven or Sibelius concertos …” – San Francisco Chronicle
- About time we heard this. – San Francisco Examiner 01/21/00
RECONCEIVING BERLIN
A new plan for Berlin’s Museum Island with its five great museums marks the reorganization of Berlin’s museum holdings. The plan “advocates a return to the Hegelian universalism that underpinned the creation of the island in the nineteenth century. The five buildings, which are to be connected by a series of underground passageways, will together present an overview of European painting and sculpture from its beginnings to the nineteenth century.” – The Art Newspaper
ELGIN MARBLES DEBATED
All was civil at this conference until just before the end … – The Art Newspaper
GUGGENHEIM AUSTRALIA?
Plans for latest branch outside Melbourne. – The Art Newspaper
- Previously: WORLD DOMINATION: With Bilbao a hit and expansion planned for Venice, the Guggenheim eyes its next move. This time the focus is on South America. Sao Paulo, perhaps? – ARTnews
THE THREE … ER … FOUR STOOGES
Novelist Tom Wolfe ups the heat on his feud with three fellow writers lumping his new adversary, John Irving, with Mailer and Wolfe, dubbing the literary troika the “Three Stooges” on a Canadian book show. – Salon