A brother and sister sued the auction house after their painting, identified by Christie’s as “from the school of Titian” and sold for 8,000 pounds, was later identified as the real thing and “put up for sale by rival auctioneers Sotheby’s for a guide price of $4- $6 million.”
Tag: 02.25.10
Mourning The Loss Of The Contralto
In today’s classical music, “there are only mezzo-sopranos: should you wish to employ a contralto, you will search the websites of singers’ agents in vain. Have women’s voices changed over the past 50 years, as the result of something put in the water or taken out of the diet? Or have contraltos merely gone into embarrassed hiding?”
The Return Of The Audio Drama
“Radio drama, ranging from ‘Captain Midnight’ to the high art of Orson Welles, thrived for 40 years in America. It was all but gone by the 1960s, killed off by television. Yet now that TV must contend with the Internet, the Internet has given radio drama a whisper of new life.”
What NBC’s Olympic Coverage Can Teach Us About Silence
“If the Olympics are a celebration of athletic excellence, of the human spirit triumphing over the limitations of the human body, why do we insist, like a bunch of preschoolers, on talking all the way through them?”
Berlin Phil To Salzburg: Clean Up The Easter Fest Or Else
“The Berlin Philharmonic is urging Salzburg politicians to clean up the Easter Festival to ensure the orchestra’s continued involvement after a fraud scandal.” Said a spokesperson for the Philharmonic, “I wouldn’t call it a threat.”
Mark Morris And The Modernist Dance Country Club
“I’m delighted at the way that this [career] has gone and that I’m not really part of the very minute superesoteric modern dance club, which I’m not a member of. I was never invited; it’s the Groucho Marx thing. … It’s like: That? You’re dancing to that music?”