The orchestra is reeling from recession woes and $40 million in damage to its new (and not-yet-paid-for) concert hall in the 2010 floods.
Tag: 03.21.13
We’re In A Golden Age Of Musicals (Jukebox Shows Notwithstanding)
“If the musical is dead, then its ghost hasn’t just turned up for dinner – it’s telling all the best stories, cracking the best jokes, paying everyone’s bill and then suggesting we all go on somewhere else for cocktails.”
How To Be The Black Person Reading How To Be Black
Lauren A. White on how reading Baratunde Thurston’s satirical self-help guide on the New York subways became a social experiment.
Lessons From The Gardner Museum Theft
“Twenty-three years may seem like an inordinate amount of time to solve a burglary, but the Gardner case has actually come a long way from the days when it sometimes seemed to sit on the F.B.I.’s investigative back burner — and the robbery has done a lot to change the way that museums protect their art.”
How’s Peter Gelb Doing At The Met?
It’s complicated.
Historical Fiction And Its Discontents (Or Its Opportunities?)
“Indeed, says Knausgaard, we are wrong to imagine that those of the past are anything like us, for ‘our world is only one of many possible worlds.'”
How Will The Nashville Symphony’s Financial Woes Affect Its Musicians?
“It would not be surprising for givebacks — that is, salary or benefit concessions from the musicians — to come up during those discussions. But orchestra members here have less to give than their counterparts in other cities.”
How A City Can Help Performance Art Thrive
“Performance artists gravitate to Boston the way painters gravitate to New York, he says. Phelan knows plenty of performance artists who, after leaving Boston, ‘come to a complete stop pretty quickly,’ he says. ‘But here, there’s always a new place, a new activation.'”
What Makes Some Shows (Ahem, LIke Game of Thrones) So Fan-Friendly?
“There have always been epics – Star Wars perhaps being the most famous – that create a mass fan movement. But why certain shows resonate more than others is not an exact science.”
Michelle Shocked Apologizes For Anti-Gay Rant
“I do not, nor have I ever, said or believed that God hates homosexuals (or anyone else). I said that some of His followers believe that. … I am damn sorry. If I could repeat the evening, I would make a clearer distinction between a set of beliefs I abhor, and my human sympathy for the folks who hold them.”