“The next time orchestras are taken to task for being too European, too Caucasian, and too male-dominated, one might reference the new and growing generation of music directors who bring an inclusive sensibility and dimension to artistic leadership.”
Tag: 03.04.13
Australian Miners Lose Jobs For Recording, Posting Harlem Shake Video
“Up to 15 workers lost their six-figure salary jobs last week for participating and watching the dance performance, which is the latest dance craze to sweep the world.”
Radiohead Says Its “Pay What You Want” For Music Project Might Have Been Mistake
Radiohead lead singer Thom “Yorke said he now feels In Rainbows experiment may have actually helped technology companies, such as Google and Apple, strip the value out of music for their own benefit.”
Steven Spielberg To Shoot Kubrick’s Napoleon As Miniseries
“Steven Spielberg is set to bring Stanley Kubrick’s unfilmed screenplay about the life of Napoleon to the small screen.”
Three Playwrights Win $150K In New Yale Prize
“The Windham-Campbell Prizes, a new literary award from Yale University, has announced its inaugural roster of winners. Among the nine recipients are three playwrights — Naomi Wallace, Stephen Adly Guirgis and Tarell Alvin McCraney.
Painful Layoffs At Indianapolis Museum Of Art
“Twenty-nine museum jobs, or 11 percent of the staff, were eliminated Monday in a cost-cutting move orchestrated by Charles Venable, hired in August to be the museum’s director and CEO. Venable wants the IMA to be less reliant on its endowment, which in recent years has fluctuated in value while accounting for 70 percent of the museum’s operating budget.”
Strad Recovered In Bulgaria May Be One Stolen From London Train Station
“The £1.2m Stradivarius and two bows were stolen from classical musician Min-Jin Kym while she was in a cafe at Euston station in November 2010. John Maughan, 30, admitted theft in 2011 but the violin was never found.”
In England’s New Arts Funding Climate, Arts With Business Or Arts Vs. Business?
“In the 90s and early noughties there was a notion that if you appointed a chairman from the business world they would be able to knock an arts organisation in to shape, and in at least two national arts institutions it went horribly wrong … But the mix of management and curation can work. A business manager who loves the arts and can man-manage coupled with a creative team on the same level in the hierarchy or even a notch below can be very productive.”
Reviewer: I Trashed Your Novels Because I Couldn’t Sell One Of My Own
“It is true: I did not like their novels. But my dislike was set aflame by jealousy of young men whose profiles were similar to mine and who had managed to do what I had not. I remain more embarrassed by that piece than by any other.”
Amazon Patents Protocol For Lending Digital Content
“Amazon.com has been awarded what appears to be a broad patent on a ‘secondary market for digital objects’ – a system for users to sell, trade and loan digital objects including audio files, eBooks, movies, apps, and pretty much anything else.”