“Not content with having just one pavilion on its Kensington Gardens lawn this summer, [the Serpentine Gallery] has commissioned four more architects … who range in age from 36 to 93 … to design a series of summer houses to go with it.”
Tag: 02.10.16
How Do We Trace Influence In Music?
“As listeners, what are we attached to? At what point in life have we made up our musical minds? Do we have to eat our musical vegetables to grow strong? Listen to Bach, Blind Willie, Carnatic music?”
Reading Is Back. Yay! But Let’s Not Put Down Complicated Critiques Replaced By New Enthusiasm
That reading is now a social activity again… might seem cause for optimism. Yet D.J. Taylor regrets the passing of critical arbitration in matters of taste, and is at his most curmudgeonly when describing the “enthusiastic online amateur who protests his inability to ‘relate’ to the central character of the novel under discussion and imagines this to be the fault of the book”.
Theatre Converts Its Season To Pay-As-You-Want And Sees 50% Increase In Audience
A spokeswoman for the theatre said the production had made about the same amount of money as would normally be generated by a show such as this, but had double the audience. Bookings for other shows in the season have also “spiked”.
‘Image Overload’ – It’s A Thing, And With Real Consequences
“As we snap, store and communicate with thousands of images on our phones and computers, a number of researchers and theorists are already beginning to point to some of the unintended consequences of this ‘image overload,’ which range from heightened anxiety to memory impairment.”
Boston Classical Orchestra To Close (New Orchestra Rises)
“Small ensembles like BCO face an uphill battle in Boston’s crowded musical ecosystem, especially as institutional funding falls far beneath the levels present in other cities. Still, as Boston loses one ensemble, it will be gaining another.”
Do Critics (Should They) Have Power? (Or Is It Illusion?)
“Criticism is not a matter of technique or form,” AO Scott writes, “so much as it is a matter of personality, of who you imagine is doing the talking.” But equally important is on whose behalf the talking is being done. Blog or trade? Alt-weekly or the paper of record? It matters a great deal.
Salonen, Hannigan, Uchida – Ojai Music Festival Names Directors Through 2021
“The coming directors include Vijay Iyer, the jazz pianist and composer, in 2017, and Esa-Pekka Salonen, the composer and conductor, in 2018 … [as well as] Barbara Hannigan, the soprano and conductor whose star has been rising because of her performances of new works, in 2019; Patricia Kopatchinskaja, the searching violinist, in 2020; and, in 2021, Mitsuko Uchida, the pianist and conductor who was last a co-music director of the festival in 1998.”
Jazz Is About To Have A Moment In The Movies
Jazz on film has an erratic history, starting in 1927 with the first sound motion picture, The Jazz Singer.
How Realistic Is It To Think You Can Make A Living As A Mid-Career Artist?
The chances that you’ll make any money making art are so few and far between that it is like, “Why give everyone false hope?” The main thing I try to encourage is that if you want to be an artist, don’t be realistic.