The multiple-Grammy-winning company, which includes jazz labels Heads Up and Concord as well as classical label Telarc (home of the Atlanta and Cincinnati Symphonies), is eliminating half of its 52 staff positions and ending all in-house record production. Telarc will continue to manufacture and distribute recordings produced by others; the company’s founders and chief recording engineer have already launched new ventures with Telarc as a major client.
Tag: 02.24.09
Humanities Endangered?
“In this new era of lengthening unemployment lines and shrinking university endowments, questions about the importance of the humanities in a complex and technologically demanding world have taken on new urgency. Previous economic downturns have often led to decreased enrollment in the disciplines loosely grouped under the term ‘humanities.”
The Beijing CCTV Fire: Divine Punishment For Bad Urban Planning?
Many Chinese saw the blaze – which happened on the last day of Lunar New Year celebrations – that destroyed part of the enormous Rem Koolhaas/OMA complex as a bad omen. That towering inferno “might also have been a funeral pyre of sorts, a symbolic end of the architectural excess that has hallmarked China’s post-Mao binge-building boom.”
MCA Denver Names New Director, Announces Merger
“Adam Lerner has been named director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver. Lerner was previously director of the Laboratory of Art and Ideas at Belmar in Lakewood, Colorado, which will merge with the Denver museum as part of the hiring.”
New Edinburgh Fringe Chief Promises No More Ticket Chaos
“Kath Mainland, newly appointed chief executive of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, has said the body must put the ticketing woes of last year behind it and vowed to keep the festival as an open-access event for performers.”
Remember When? The Web In 1996
“People still refer to the new medium by its full name – the World Wide Web – and although you sometimes find interesting stuff here, you’re constantly struck by how little there is to do. You rarely linger on the Web; your computer takes about 30 seconds to load each page, and, hey, you’re paying for the Internet by the hour. Plus, you’re tying up the phone line.”
National Theatre’s Tom Morris Is Bristol Old Vic’s New A.D.
“National Theatre associate director Tom Morris has been appointed as the next artistic director of the troubled Bristol Old Vic as it gears up to full reopening over the next year. In the post, which has been vacant since May 2007 when Simon Reade resigned prior to the regional playhouse’s shock closure that August, Morris will be reunited with his former colleague Emma Stenning, who has been appointed as Bristol’s executive director.”
Will An Arts-Loving First Family Lead By Example?
The “infusion of the arts into the Obamas’ public rituals and family routines comes after eight years in which George W. Bush seldom was seen in Washington’s halls of culture. Laura Bush liked to attend performances and museum exhibitions, Washington arts leaders say, but such patronage wasn’t a couples activity. Taking the Obama past as prelude, there’s a fair amount of evidence to support arts partisans’ hopes for a White House attuned to music, theater, fine arts and dance.”
Big Cuts at Philadelphia Museum
“Facing a dramatic downturn in its endowment and waning city support, the Philadelphia Museum of Art is cutting staff, delaying exhibitions, curtailing programs, trimming salaries and – subject to city approval – increasing admission fees.”
Detroit Institute Of Arts Lays Off 20 Percent Of Staff
“The cuts come as part of an effort by the DIA to trim $6 million from its $34-million annual operating budget. The layoffs involve 56 full-time employees and seven part-time workers and come from departments including curatorial, conservation, learning and interpretation, building operations, communications and marketing and accounting.”