“A gifted artist, he had composed 13 symphonies by the age of 11, and his recordings of Joseph Haydn’s piano sonatas are considered definitive. His own compositions included orchestral and chamber music, and he was director of the London College of Music between 1983 and 1990.”
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Can Second Stage Hold On To Broadway’s Helen Hayes Theatre?
“The Hayes is one of only 40 Broadway theaters, which rarely come up for sale, and it is widely regarded as a beautiful playhouse in a prime location.”
A Sneak Peek At The New Broad Museum In Los Angeles
“Because of both the museum’s ambitious design and the problems that have dogged its construction, public curiosity about the Broad is exceptionally high.”
We Love Celebrity Gossip, Especially If It’s Negative, But … Why?
“This negative celebrity gossip was also associated with extra activity in regions known to be involved in self-control, suggesting that the students were trying to conceal their guilty pleasure.”
What’s Missing From Teen Movies Of The New Millennium? Class
“In the ‘80s and ‘90s, movies and television shows explored storylines on the fray. They were really weird and strangely lit with cryptic-speaking characters and alternative universes — they weren’t beige and unoffensive.”
Are Equity Actors In Los Angeles Afraid To Support A Minimum Wage?
“It’s difficult for them to get up and speak in front of people who may employ them if they feel they might not get employed if they speak the alternate view from what the producers feel. … They’re intimidated.”
Is Capitalism Going To Kill Off Art?
“The rise of art as investment commodity for the ultra-wealthy does seem to distort the process of art-making and -selling for everyone else. A painting was sold last week for $300-million (U.S.), probably to the feudal sheikdom of Qatar; meanwhile across the board, artists’ real incomes are declining. It is rather confusing.”
Jonathan Franzen Is The Book Internet’s Favorite Villain For A Reason
“This idea Franzen posits that literature teaches us you’re not the ‘heroic figure you think of yourself as, that you might be the very dubious figure that other people think of you as’ is as deeply embedded in many big YA novels as it is in Munro stories. To say these books are simplistic is to mistake grandness, ease of narrative, and breathless pace for mere shallowness.”
When American Malls Were About To Die, This Architect Rescued Them And Made Them Fantasylands Of Joy
Jon Jerde “constructed thrilling, multi-levelled worlds connected by spiral staircases and swooping ramps, supercharged urban stage sets that sampled styles from across time and place with promiscuous glee. His brand of ‘place making’ has become the ubiquitous strategy for retail-led urban regeneration around the world.”
The Dance Ad That’s Got Everyone Talking (A Review)
“The images flash between the noble and the grotesque, as a Renaissance artist might put it–the polished and the rough, elegant and comic, masque and antimasque. Then as now, we’re fascinated by these contrasts, these irreconcilable parts of our essential humanness. It satisfies something innate to see opposites in play.”