“On Monday the company announced that up to 24 writers, chosen from a pool of applicants, will be given a round-trip ticket on a long-distance train, including a private sleeper-car room with a bed, a desk, and electrical outlets. The trains promise the romance. The writers will have to do the rest.”
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$100K Nemmers Composition Prize Goes to Esa-Pekka Salonen
In addition to the cash award, the prize, given by Northwestern University’s Bienen School of Music, will do four residencies at the school over the next two years and have a work performed by the Chicago Symphony.
Korean Food Porn Is a Big Online Hit
“Every night at 10, thousands of Koreans tune in to watch Choi Ji-hwan eating on streaming video. The chubby-cheeked 24-year-old offers up a cooking lesson and then, in his main online act, devours a dish like kimchi pork stew in a wild, comic performance meant to make clear how much he enjoys a good meal.” (includes video)
See the Languages English Has Pillaged for Vocabulary In One Cool Graphic
Philip Durkin of the Oxford English Dictionary gives us a cunning interactive timeline.
CNN Discovers That Ballet Can Be Manly
“Tutus have been replaced with bare chests and tights, pointe shoes have been tossed aside for slippers, and delicate décolletages have been swapped for beefed-up biceps. Once the traditional arena of lithe ladies, ballet is seeing an increasing number of all-male shows – in one of the biggest shake-ups in the history of the profession.” (includes video)
Why Most Actors Are Crazy
Or, as The Atlantic‘s headline-writer so dispassionately puts it, “How Actors Create Emotions: A Problematic Psychology.”
Drunk Disrupts Dude at Disney
Gustavo Dudamel had to stop the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s performance of John Corigliano’s First Symphony on Friday night when an inebriated latecomer decided – very loudly and a bit violently – that he shouldn’t have to wait for a break in the music to enter the auditorium.
Top Posts From AJBlogs 03.10.14
Collector Jonathan Demme Joins The Sellers
AJBlog: Real Clear Arts | Published 2014-03-10
Breaching The Fourth Wall
AJBlog: Dancebeat | Published 2014-03-10
Where One Looks for It, Evidence Will Be Found
AJBlog: PostClassic | Published 2014-03-10
Jazz Telepathy: Fred Hersch and Julian Lage
AJBlog: CultureCrash | Published 2014-03-10
Slipped Disc editorial: Why can’t anyone find the right word for Gerard Mortier?
AJBlog: Slipped Disc | Published 2014-03-10
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Smithsonian Chooses A New Director
“He brings a record of noteworthy fundraising, having brought in more than $5 billion during his time at Cornell and $1 billion in a previous presidency at the University of Iowa.”
Glenn Beck, Culture Producer?
“Beck has three major motion pictures in development, and they will have a decidedly different outlook from the doom-and-gloom scenarios his Fox News viewers became accustomed to.”