“Video monitors, editing suites, plasma screens and control panels abound and attest to the building’s superior high-tech capabilities, but it all comes together most impressively in the main performance hall, a steep theater in the round–everyone is within 13 rows of the stage–with four satellite stages perched around the edges and 10 fixed and moveable robotic HD cameras.”
Tag: 01.25.11
Insurance For Your Digital Music?
“Music fans are at risk of losing thousands of pounds worth of digital music because their household insurer does not protect downloaded material.”
Website Gives You Data On Classical Music
“Here’s a fun game: what was the most performed work of classical music throughout the world last year? Who was the busiest conductor? Which was the most performed opera? And who was the most overpaid diva? At last, answers to all of those questions and more (apart, alas, from the last one) are revealed today by Bachtrack, the classical music listing site.”
Academy Award Nominations Announced
The 10 films that will be vying for best motion picture at the 83rd Academy Awards are “Black Swan,” “The Fighter,” “Inception,” “The Kids Are All Right,” “The King’s Speech,” “127 Hours,” “The Social Network,” “Toy Story 3,” “True Grit” and “Winter’s Bone,”
Newspaper Strike Enters Its Third Year
“Monday marked two years that 253 journalists and office staff were locked out of Quebec’s most popular French-language tabloid newspaper, the Journal de Montréal, and there is finally a glimmer of hope for an end to the standoff.”
Low-Power FM Radio to Get Bigger Piece of US Broadcast Spectrum
“Advocates for low-power FM, or LPFM, as it is called, say the stations are a slight corrective to the consolidation of commercial radio. Soon there will be more: this month President Obama signed the Local Community Radio Act, which repeals restrictions on such stations and allows the Federal Communications Commission to give out more 100-watt licenses.”
Attendance at Australia’s National Gallery Drops – Until Space Invaders Arrive
“A graffiti art exhibition called Space Invaders has been the surprise star attraction this summer at Canberra’s National Gallery of Australia, where overall visitors are markedly down on last year.”
Did Lang Lang Diss America at White House State Dinner?
“Chinese-born pianist Lang Lang denied Monday that he sought to insult the United States with the choice of a song he played at a White House state dinner last week, despite the claims of some mainland Chinese and conservatives in the U.S.”
Where Ricky Gervais Really Went Wrong at the Golden Globes: Dissing God
His closing quip was, “And thank you, God, for making me an atheist.” Says one network exec: “But only a Brit would be naive enough … no, arrogant and stiff-necked enough, to flip off God in a family-oriented TV show that is going into the American heartland on the sabbath. We did not think we had to tell Ricky that.”