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Tag: 01.23.12
The Mysteries Of Editing Poetry
“Often seen as the most personal and mysterious of literary forms – and therefore least likely to be guided by an outside hand – poetry is, in fact, strikingly indebted to invisible creators. What, we might ask, are the effects and risks of this little-understood practice on the nation’s verse?”
Another Conductor Stops Concert, This Time For Crying Baby
At a Dayton Philharmonic concert earlier this month, during the long flute solo that opens Debussy’s Prelude to The Afternoon of a Faun, an infant began to wail – and kept going. Once he saw that the musicians were getting distracted, conductor Neal Gittleman “stopped the music, turned to the audience, and asked that the child be removed. Some audience members applauded.”
State Legislator Proposes Bill To Deny Unemployment To Orchestra Musicians
House Bill 1254 would make symphony performers between orchestra seasons ineligible for unemployment between orchestra seasons if they performed during the last season and plan to perform in the upcoming season.
Transforming A Jewish Museum In Order To Save It
“The story of how the Judah L. Magnes Museum – whose collection of Judaica is the third largest in the country – became the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life at the Bancroft Library of the University of California, Berkeley, … has much to do with the evolution of the American identity museum, with its chronicles of ethnic liberation amid hardship.”
Unusual Winged Roman Building Discovered In England
Those wings are architectural, not angelic. “Built around 1,800 years ago, the structure was discovered in Norfolk, in eastern England, just to the south of the ancient town of Venta Icenorum. The structure has two wings radiating out from a rectangular room that in turn leads to a central room. … The winged shape of the building appears to be unique in the Roman Empire.”
Despite Big Critical Success, “Follies” Finishes On Broadway Without Recouping Its Costs
“More than 216,000 people saw the Broadway revival of “Follies” by the time it ended its five-and-a-half month run on Sunday, and most major theater critics raved about the production, which added three weeks of performances in response to ticket demand. Yet all of this was not enough to recoup the show’s capitalization and turn a profit.”
Publishers’ Amazon Problem
Publishers have a problem when it comes to discussing Amazon: They may fear its power, but they are also dependent on it, because like it or not, Amazon sells a lot of books. But lately, the grumbling about Amazon has been growing louder, with some in the book industry openly describing Amazon’s tactics as “predatory.”
Hollywood’s Take On Black Culture – More Yesterday Than Today?
“It’s easy enough to understand why — the present is less comfortable, while the past offers the opportunity to show the struggles and hurdles for people of color. But where are the movies that chronicle today’s African American experience? Or for that matter, films that offer any kind of serious look at any people of color, be they Asian, Latino or black?”
Fighting The Taliban With Poetry
The Taliban’s secular-nationalist opponents are fighting back using some of the very arts that religious fundamentalists seeks to destroy–poems adapted to traditional Pashto music.”