“Authorities believe Sofya Tsygankova, 31, killed her daughters and stabbed herself before her husband” – 2013 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition winner Vadym Kholodenko – “was scheduled to pick up his children for a regular visit.”
Tag: 03.21.16
Survey: Arts Leaders Say They’re Suffering From Information Overload
“Perhaps the single most important finding from the survey document is the number of arts administrators who view the increase in the volume of communication – to and from others – as a real or potential problem; one that is a threat / drain to their most important resource – time.”
Top Posts From AJBlogs 03.21.16
The Value of Intrinsic Value in the Arts: A Guest Post by Carter Gillies
In recent years an artist named Carter Gillies has written to me with some regularity in response to Jumper posts. I have always valued his letters, which are invariably insightful, provocative, warm, and encouraging. Recently, …read more
AJBlog: Jumper Published 2016-03-20
Historic days for US and Cuba, accompanied by jazz
Congratulations to the U.S. and Cuba for advancing our long overdue reset. It’s about time. Jazz at its best has linked our nations for decades, through the tangled history of corrupt dictatorship and revolution, missile crisis, failed invasion, bad relations and … read more
AJBlog: Jazz Beyond Jazz Published 2016-03-21
Taking Folk Dancing into Today’s World
Tina Croll + Company performs in New York with Zlatne Uste Balkan Brass Band. … read more
AJBlog: Dancebeat Published 2016-03-21
Thad & Mel: The Tradition Continues
You may recall that a couple of weeks ago the Rifftides Monday Recommendation was an album of recently discovered recordings by the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra. This evening, the PBS NewsHour closed with … read more
AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2016-03-21
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Like Many Former Actors, The Writer Of ‘The Waitress’ Understands The Show’s Subject On A Visceral Level
“At a moment when the question of female creative representation has come to a head, Nelson offers a template for how some of those issues could be solved, if also a less-than-overt interest in being a poster child for the cause.”
The Live Theatre Craze Meets Religion As Fox Hypes Jesus’ Last Days
“One musical number stood out: Rodgers and Hammerstein’s 1945 showstopper ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone,’ which got a loud response from the live audience even though Ms. Yearwood’s voice wasn’t nearly big enough for it.”
Paul McCartney Wants The Rights To His Songs, But Will He Get Them?
“The U.S. Copyright Act of 1976 gave songwriters the ability to recapture the publishers’ share of their songs, and in the case of titles written before 1978, writers can recapture songs after two consecutive 28-year terms, or 56 years.”
A TV Show Escapes Trouble For A Swear Word Because It Was Said With A Scottish Accent
“ITV admitted the speaker’s accent had meant the word had not been ‘understood’ prior to broadcast.”
How We Got To America’s ‘Post-Fact’ Politics And Society
“Somewhere in the middle of the twentieth century, fundamentalism and postmodernism, the religious right and the academic left, met up: either the only truth is the truth of the divine or there is no truth; for both, empiricism is an error. That epistemological havoc has never ended: much of contemporary discourse and pretty much all of American politics is a dispute over evidence.”