“There is a creepy bloodlust to the doom-mongering of classical music, as though an autopsy were being conducted on a still-breathing body. … What supports these jeremiads is the implicit idea that classical music is an aberration in the United States, something to be regarded with suspicion.”
Tag: 01.29.14
Ballet Dancers – ‘We’re Tougher Than We Look’, Says Edward Watson
The great ginger gentleman of the Royal Ballet talks us through the damage dance has done to his body over the decades.
What’s the Difference Between Bad Dreams and Nightmares?
Researchers at the University of Montreal analyzed of sleepers’ dream logs. The distinction they settled on is that nightmares are bad enough to wake you up; and both their content and their associated emotions are different from those of mere bad dreams.
Do What You Love? Should You Really Make Your Passion Your Job?
Er, is this a question underpaid arts professionals want to ask themselves in the morning? Well, maybe so.
Top Posts From AJBlogs 01.29.14
Not Against Interpretation
Source: We The Audience | Published on 2014-01-29
Pricing at the Met
Source: For What it’s Worth | Published on 2014-01-29
Rothschild Prayerbook Squeezes Out A New Record, Sort Of
Source: Real Clear Arts | Published on 2014-01-29
“Dirt Always Wins” — A Story, Part Two
Source: Out There | Published on 2014-01-29
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Hong Kong Publisher Detained and Jailed, Allegedly for Book Denouncing Chinese President
Yiu Mantin (Yao Wentian in Mandarin) was arrested three months ago on charges of smuggling chemicals into mainland China, but his family maintains he is being held because he was about to issue a book very critical of President Xi Jinping.
Smithsonian Says It Won’t Reopen National Mall Building To The Public After Renovation
It’s the Arts and Industries Building, one of the oldest buildings on the Mall. “The cost of rehabilitating the building for public use and operating it exceeded the available funding sources at this time. . . . The building will remain closed for the foreseeable future.”
Consumer Group Pushes Ticket Agencies To Justify Their Fees
“It’s something that people have told us they’re really fed up about,” he said. “That’s what we’re saying to the companies, you need to explain what these fees are for.
How Pete Seeger Transformed Pop Music
“[He] introduced American pop to a different America: the one outside Tin Pan Alley and Hollywood, where a volunteer gospel choir could sing with more gumption than a studio chorus, and where a decades-old song about hard times could speak directly to the present. The folk revival reminded the pop world that songs could be about something more than romance.”
Box Office Down, Deficit Up at Metropolitan Opera
Donations are up, as is income from the HD broadcasts, but attendance reached only 79% in 2012-13.