“In 1938, one of Granados’ sons sold the original opera to a prominent New York musician and publisher for $300 to raise money for the Republican cause in the Spanish Civil War. Other family members wanted it returned. The question of ownership remained the subject of litigation for decades until 1970 when the opera was reported destroyed in a warehouse fire in New York.”
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Ethan Stiefel Will Not Be Staying With Royal New Zealand Ballet
He says flat-out that it’s because of the distance: “Despite how rewarding the experience has been it has proved difficult on a personal level to be so far away from family and friends.”
Composers Are Like Jackals and Buzzards (John Adams Himself Says So)
“We composers, we’re scavengers. Beethoven was a scavenger, Bach too – that’s one of the joys of being creative. Stravinsky is rumoured to have said that ‘a good composer borrows, a great composer steals’. That may be apocryphal. But it’s not without truth.”
Here’s The Artist Who Is Co-Curating The Whitney Biennial
This is the first time the Whitney has allowed an artist to operate as a curator who chooses other artists for inclusion in a show.