“Less than 24 hours after the social mediaverse collectively patted her on the back for a bright rendition of “The Star Spangled Banner,” Beyonce is being accused of lip syncing the national anthem during Monday’s inauguration ceremony on the steps of the U.S. Capitol.”
Tag: 01.22.13
Study: Playing A Musical Instrument May Reduce Blood Pressure
The researchers found blood pressure was significantly lower among the musicians, and their heart rate “tended to be lower” than those in the non-musical group. They attribute this to the musicians’ higher levels of “somatosensory nerve activity,” which “beneficially modulate the autonomic nervous system.”
Protest Art Enters The Museum (And A New Generation Arises)
“As the activist art of a half-century ago, like the agitprop art before it, enters museum collections, a new generation is developing its own esthetic.”
Does Your Music Preference Predict Your Behavior?
After controlling for such factors as academic achievement, the researchers found “evidence that an early preference for different types of noisy, rebellious, non-mainstream music genres is a strong predictor of concurrent and later minor delinquency.”
Bolshoi Ballet Names Acting Artistic Director Following Attack On Filin
Galina Stepanenko, 46, is a longtime prima ballerina with the company who retired last year. Wounded artistic director Sergei Filin, who will require at least six months to recover from the acid attack he suffered last week, is said to trust her, and she says she will carry out all of his programming and casting plans.
Nonprofit Fundraising In The US Is Fundamentally Flawed: Report
“A new national survey of nonprofit executives suggests it isn’t just the uncertain economy that’s making it hard for charities – including arts and culture groups – to meet their fundraising goals. The research says there’s something fundamentally amiss with the way many of them go about courting donors.”
Antonio Frasconi, 93, Modern Master Of Woodcuts
“In 1953, Time magazine called Antonio Frasconi America’s foremost practitioner of the ancient art of the woodcut. Four decades later, Art Journal called him the best of his generation. Mr. Frasconi did not reach this pinnacle by adhering to orthodoxies.”
France Wants To Buy Manuscript Of Sade’s 120 Days Of Sodom
The director of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France is “negotiating long and hard to buy Sade’s manuscript. … He has argued in front of the Commission of National Treasures to declare it provisionally a ‘national treasure’ that needs to be preserved in the library. And he is ready to pay more than $5 million to get it.”
Orlando’s Broadway Presenter And New Arts Center Try To Patch Up Rift
“After each side vowed to go it alone, the leaders of the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts and the organization that presents touring Broadway shows in Orlando are back at the negotiating table.”
Charleston Ballet Theatre’s Board Resigns (Again)
“For the second time in the past year, the majority of the Charleston Ballet Theatre’s board of directors has resigned. … The previous board of directors resigned in February 2012 following charges of plagiarism, the ill treatment of dancers, and financial mismanagement.” Remaining are controversial artistic directors Don and Patricia Cantwell and resident choreographer Jill Bahr.