“A new app, in development, will allow students to, say, spend five minutes a day on ear training using their smartphone. Or do their sight reading. There’s an app being designed for parents of very young infants to aid in their development; the first in a series of digital products for parents of children up to age five, to be launched in a few years.”
Tag: 03.06.15
So This Weekend Sees Danish LARPers Turning Elsinore Into A Live, Unscripted Hamlet
“We call it LARP tourism — the chance to travel to worlds that don’t exist.”
Are These The Ten Best Concert Halls In The World?
What, no Disney?
Why Graphic Design Gets No Respect?
“Graphic design has always been the poor relation to its more lordly cousins… But graphic designers? If they’re lucky, they can pay through the nose for the chance to win a novelty yellow pencil.”
Winner Of Germany’s Eurovision Song Competition Declines To Compete
Andreas Kuemmert, whose voice had wowed national audiences, told German television viewers that “I’m overwhelmed by your affection” before adding: “I’m not really in the right state to accept this.” Instead, he handed the title to 24-year-old runner-up Ann Sophie, who tearfully accepted.
The Most Shocking Thing About MoMA’s Bjork Show? The Music
“I can’t remember the last time I saw an excerpt of actual music—with ledger lines, key signatures, rests and notes—in a mainstream book about classical music, or in a program note at a symphonic concert or almost any other context where classical musicians actually make music. This has all been banished. The visual presence of music—except rarely as a fuzzy decorative background over which something else has been printed—is seen as off- putting, even terrifying to newcomers.”
“Little Short Of Hostile”: Roberta Smith On MoMA’s Björk Show
“She probably should have trusted her first response – No thanks – when the Museum of Modern Art came calling … not because her work isn’t museum-worthy but because, as proved here, the Modern is not up to the task..” What’s more, “given the number of Björk fans it will probably attract, the show’s future as a logistical nightmare seems clear.”