Classical pianist Anton Kuerti and SCTV alumnus Eugene Levy are two of the latest group of Canadians to be honoured with the country’s most distinguished performing arts award.
Tag: 03.12.08
Book/Blog Publishers Going Out Of Business
“Founded in 2005, The Friday Project (TFP) won much publicity for its exclusive focus on publishing material that started life in the blogosphere. High visibility, however, was not enough to sustain TFP financially” and the company is going out of business.
Getty Museum Buys A Gauguin
The Getty has acquired “Arii Matamoe,” an 1892 painting by Paul Gauguin that has been in a private collection in Switzerland for decades and has been exhibited publicly only once since 1946.
The Madness (And Genius) Of Pianists
“Marshalling their mountains of notes from memory, concert pianists need the skill of jugglers and the strength and stamina of athletes. Meanwhile, in their fusion of instinct and intellect, they must be supreme aesthetes. And they must do all this without safety nets: if their memory fails, or their fingers foul up, all they have is an unforgiving crowd. It takes an unusual person to put their life on the line like this. No wonder many pianists are oddballs; no wonder some go mad.”