The author, who just won The Story Prize for her Anything Is Possible, says, “The first time I read it, I was on vacation with my in-laws and sitting by the pool one of them said: ‘Liz, that’s so pretentious, can’t you cover that up?’ I almost died. So now I read it furtively in the privacy of my home.”
Tag: 03.02.18
The NY Philharmonic Signed A Three-Year Contract This Week, Settling Some Big Questions (For A While)
Perhaps the feeling of harmony can be laid at the feet of Deborah Borda, the NY Phil’s new president and chief executive officer. “Since her arrival she has helped to extricate the orchestra from a costly, disruptive plan to renovate its Lincoln Center home and raised $50 million to end its string of deficits and give it the resources to welcome a new music director, Jaap van Zweden.”
A Former Producer At E News Says She Was Fired After She Didn’t Censor A Call-out At The Golden Globes
Yes, Ryan Seacrest has been accused of sexual harassment, which makes E!’s chances of getting good red carpet time at the Oscars slightly less good than they were before (actors appear to be planning not to talk to him, though we’ll see), but also? “A female producer is claiming employment discrimination after getting fired, she said, for letting a clip critical of the network air during the Golden Globes.” (And THAT clip was critical of the network for paying a woman co-host about half – half! – of what they paid her male counterpart.)
Why Is This The Very First Year A Woman Is Nominated For Cinematography?
The numbers are, to put it mildly, shite. “That gives us 85 percent male at our most conservative estimate and around 91 percent looking at our two more probabilistic estimates. That would make professional cinematography and its related fields more male than barbers, civil engineers, police officers, taxi drivers and clergy, according to Department of Labor statistics.”
John Williams May Finally Be Finished With ‘Star Wars’ Movies
He is so very finished with this nonsense (this nonsense that has utterly permeated popular culture). “‘We know J.J. Abrams is preparing one now that I will hopefully do next year for him,’ Williams told a radio interviewer this week. ‘I look forward to it. It will round out a series of nine, that will be quite enough for me.'”
Barbara Lekberg, Who Wielded A Blowtorch For Her Art, Has Died At 92
Lekberg found her medium when she learned to weld. “‘The old struggle with plaster and coat hangers ended when I began to weld steel,’ she said, referring to her early efforts to make sculpture. ‘Steel held its own when projected into space and seemed to do everything I needed. This is a primal joy in sculpture: that a mineral from the earth can be a vehicle for expressing one’s innermost thoughts.'”
Marrakesh Has Put Itself On The Contemporary Art World Map
There’s a new museum of contemporary art, and the 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, which now has fairs in London, New York, and Marrakesh. “Tunji Akintokun, an I.T. executive based in London, described African contemporary art as ‘underestimated and undervalued.’ He flew to Marrakesh for the fair, attracted by its North African emphasis.”
Can Spotify Possibly Be Worth Twenty Billion Dollars?
Or, in other words, can it be a force in music that disrupts labels the way Netflix disrupted … well, what exactly did Netflix disrupt? Movie rental stores. Meanwhile, Apple Music might have fewer subscribers, but it doesn’t need to make a profit; and let’s not even talk about how many places Amazon Music might be in a customer’s home. But Spotify’s going on the New York Stock Exchange anyway.
Inside The Horrible Cult Of James Levine
“Interviews with nearly two dozen former students and musicians from Levine’s Cleveland days, including six from the maestro’s inner circle, indicate the conductor’s alleged sexual behavior was part of a sweeping system to control this core group. As Levine yoked his musical gifts and position to a bid for power, he dictated what they read, how they dressed, what they ate, when they slept — even whom they loved.”
Conductor Jesús López Cobos, 78
López Cobos held several music director positions at leading orchestras throughout a long and successful career. He was the Music Director of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra from 1986 to 2001, making several highly-regarded recordings for Telarc, and later became their Conductor Emeritus. López Cobos was also General Music Director of the Deutsche Oper in Berlin from 1981 to 1990, Music Director of the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra from 1991 to 2000 and Music Director of the Teatro Real in Madrid from 2003 to 2010.