With a hiring freeze, reduced musicians’ fees and other “nips and tucks,” the Kimmel is reducing its current year budget by 11½ percent to $36 million in order to avoid a deficit. But “[n]o cuts in programming, operating hours, existing staff or salaries are being instituted” and no major pledges have been withdrawn.
Tag: 02.08.09
The Ballets Russes-ian Revolution, 100 Years On
From its first performances in 1909, Serge Diaghilev’s path-breaking company “was giving audiences three Gesamtkunstwerks an evening, and with a quality of movement that no Wagnerian opera had ever known… Ballet became innovatively sexy, astoundingly picturesque, dramatically challenging.” But in a new century, are Diaghilev’s productions still compelling? Can they be?
The (Partheno)Genesis Of A TV Series
Where did Joss Whedon (creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog) get the idea for his new series, Dollhouse? “At lunch… we were sort of talking about the kind of show [star Eliza Dushku] ought to do… and then lo and behold the show just sort of popped up and started barking at me.'”
Stone-Age Music (No, We Don’t Mean The Sex Pistols)
“A musical experience with a difference is being previewed at the National Museum Wales in Cardiff – an attempt to recreate the sound of the Neanderthals.”