Rising young Mexican conductor Alondra de la Parra and mid-career Australian maestra Simone Young discuss learning and shaping a score, keeping your head about you on and off the podium, and why they’d rather not have to deal with the woman-conductor thing. (audio)
Tag: 01.26.15
Osipova And Goddard Make History At Britain’s National Dance Awards
“The Royal Ballet principal Natalia Osipova and contemporary dancer Jonathan Goddard become the first to win in both major dancer categories, while Carlos Acosta takes home the lifetime achievement honours.”
The Many (English-Speaking) Lives Of “Anna Karenina”
“Why does a novel that already has at least six or seven English-language editions need yet another update? Journalist and author Masha Gessen discusses the difficulty of translating a literary masterpiece and argues the more the better.” (podcast)
Learning How To Sound Like A Woman After You’ve Become One
‘The hormones used in male-to-female transitions have no effect on the vocal cords, meaning that even after a cosmetic and surgical transition into women, the male-sounding voice often keeps transgender people tied to their old identities.” So a small group of voice specialists have developed techniques to teach transgender women how to make their speech patterns match their gender expression.
Why TV Is the Perfect Place for Indie Filmmakers
James Poniewozik: “There is, arguably, richer potential in landing a TV deal than making an independent movie, shopping it around, and trying to get it attention in theaters. … But I’d also argue that TV is a good match for indie filmmakers for other than economic and practical reasons.”
Which Show Pioneered Race-Blind Casting On Broadway? (Hint: It Was In 1944)
“Bucking Broadway’s trend,” the musical’s creators – all children of Jewish immigrants, and so no strangers to discrimination themselves – “cast African-Americans to play ‘full-fledged citizens who were portrayed equitably with their white colleagues’.” And they cast a Japanese-American as the ingenue – in 1944.
Is Disney Diluting Its Brand As Animator of Classic Children’s Tales?
“A crucial part of the Disney magic has always been its total control over ‘the vault,’ its 80-year-old catalog of animated features that are only released for sale for a limited time before becoming artificially scarce again.” But the studio has been busy remaking many of its classic animated titles – Sleeping Beauty (as Maleficent), Cinderella, The Jungle Book, Beauty and the Beast (not to mention the 1996 101 Dalmatians) – in live action. Why?
Old Master Paintings Are Almost Cheap These Days
“That $3 million Caravaggio is looking like a bargain compared to an $81.9 million Andy Warhol.”
Top Posts From AJBlogs 01.26.15
Sotheby’s Raises Its Buyer’s Premium. How Much Is Too Much?
AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2015-01-26
Monday Recommendation: Bley, Sheppard, Swallow
AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2015-01-26
Equal Parts Hip-Hop and High Art, Seattle’s Amy O’Neal Finally Tours
AJBlog: Fresh Pencil Published 2015-01-26
Ruff stuff
(David Jays on reviving Jacobean tragedy)
AJBlog: Performance Monkey Published 2015-01-26
AAMD’s Midwinter Meeting: Cultural Property, “Public Trust”
AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2015-01-26
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The Show Must Go On: Blizzards Don’t Shut Down Broadway (Well, Almost Never)
Playbill looks at two decades worth of big storms, and has to go back to 1996 to find one that closed more than a very few shows. (Except for Sandy, which didn’t have any snow.)