The popular instrumentalist will end her three-decade concert career in the summer of 2020, at which point she’ll be 55. In her announcement, she ran through her considerable list of accomplishments before concluding, “I’ve decided it’s time to find a little more space in my life for some of my many other interests!” — The Strad
Tag: 01.25.19
Museum Of Black Civilizations In Dakar Is Major Advance In Movement To Repatriate African Art
“The museum hopes to represent all black civilizations, but the fact that it is based in Dakar is not mere coincidence. Art lives and breathes in Dakar. With its founding father and the brain-child behind this grand museum – Léopold Sédar Senghor – having been a poet, cultural theorist and leading pan-Africanist thinker, it makes sense that Dakar would be the home of this museum.” — Quartz
Meshulam Riklis, Not Just Mr. Pia Zadora, Dead At 95
He’s best known to the public as the mogul widely considered to have bought a Golden Globe award for his actress-singer wife (whom he met when she was 19 and he was 49). But before that, he was the original leveraged-buyout corporate raider and co-founded Carnival Cruise Lines. Later, he produced a women’s pro wrestling TV series and became one of Las Vegas’s top casino-hotel and entertainment moguls — until he went bankrupt and fled home to Israel. — The Hollywood Reporter
A Virtual-Reality ‘Hamlet’
The metro Boston-based Commonwealth Shakespeare Company has partnered with Google’s AR/VR Lens project to create Hamlet 360: Thy Father’s Spirit, in which the viewer watches the action from the notional point of view of the ghost of Hamlet’s father. — American Theatre
New Streaming Service For Arthouse Films To Launch This Spring
With FilmStruck having closed and Criterion’s planned service limited to the titles admitted to its Collection, serious cinephiles who stream were feeling a bit bereft. “Enter OVID, a recently announced partnership [whose members]… control the rights to thousands of different documentary, arthouse, independent, and international titles.” — Hyperallergic
Why Johns Hopkins Is Buying The Newseum Building
“The purchase is an opportunity to position the university, literally, to better contribute its expertise to national- and international-policy discussions. … It is also a power move for a university that ping-pongs in and out of the top-10 rankings — one that may lead more students to salivate over the school, and improve its status.” — The Atlantic
Art Critic Mary Louise Schumacher Laid Off From Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
After 18 years as the paper’s art and architecture critic, Schumacher has taken a buyout; her position is being eliminated. The Journal Sentinel is a Gannett newspaper, and Schumacher is presumably one of the roughly 400 staffers whose layoffs by the chain were revealed earlier this month. — ARTnews
Conductor Daniele Rustioni Takes Reins At Ulster Orchestra
The 35-year-old Italian, currently chief conductor of the Orchestra della Toscana in Florence and the Opéra National de Lyon, succeeds Rafael Payaré, who leaves in July for his new job as music director of the San Diego Symphony. — Belfast Telegraph
Long-Speculated-About Trunk Reveals 5000 Pages Of Verdi Musical Notes
Locked inside the trunk were drafts and sketches for 12 operas written over nearly half a century, from “Luisa Miller” to “Falstaff,” as well as for works like the Requiem and “Four Sacred Pieces.” They have been cataloged and digitized and will be made accessible to scholars. – The New York Times
Helen Sung And Dana Gioia: A Fine Joint Effort
Helen Sung: Sung With Words (Stricker Street Records)
In this poetry and jazz collection Helen Sung further validates her position as one of the most accomplished pianists In the New York jazz community. — Doug Ramsey