“The apparent result of such fluidity is that these young professionals work in technology, do research, and make art, seemingly moving from one to the other without any angst or difficulty. Contrast this with my generation of practitioners, who merely struggled with how to make a living as an artist.”
Tag: 03.23.16
Whatever Happened To Philip Glass’s Plans For A Big Cultural Center In Big Sur?
Glass’s concept of a Center is to “gather the world’s leaders in the fields of art, science, and the environment for a broad array of interdisciplinary activities including performances, seminars, and education programs that inspire and motivate the public to become engaged with matters vital to the future of the natural environment and the quality of human existence.”
Andris Nelsons Talks Shostakovich, The Boston Symphony, And New American Music
“Some composers are more interested in composition itself, just to find a different technique, which is also interesting, but [I want to know] how does it express what’s happening in life? Contemporary music, in that sense, to me is very important.”
Rapper Phife Dawg, 45
“Malik Taylor, the rapper known as Phife Dawg whose nimble, clever rhymes helped launch A Tribe Called Quest to both commercial and critical success, died Tuesday at the age of 45 from complications resulting from diabetes. Rolling Stone has confirmed the rapper’s death.”
Charity Bookstores Beg: Please Stop Bringing Us ‘Fifty Shades Of Grey’!
“With almost enough copies of Fifty Shades of Grey to build its own sex dungeon, a branch of Oxfam in Swansea has asked people to stop donating the erotic novel or any of its sequels.”
Theatre Today Is Too Safe And Too Middle-Aged, Says David Hare
“The idea of a pioneering, cutting-edge avant-garde, I am afraid, has more or less completely disappeared from the British theatre, and now you just have every artistic director with his or her eye on the box office, because that is the mood of the times.”
NPR Sends Reporters To ‘Trump Training,’ Because Trump Rallies Can Be Dangerous
“[The radio network] has sent its political reporters to 90-minute hostile-environment awareness training, which in its typical form lasts a few days and prepares journalists for covering war zones or regions where terrorists are active.”
Multimedia, $5 Seats, Free-Form Season – PONY Is Upending The Way Orchestras Operate
New York’s newest orchestra, the Philharmonia Orchestra of New York (PONY), is commissioning new films to accompany its music, using drone cameras to show the audience the musicians in action, keeping ticket prices low ($5 to $40), and working from project to project without a season announced in advance. Can they make it work? (first four paragraphs, then scroll to 23rd paragraph)
Canadian Culture Shift: National Theatre To Add Indigenous Theatre Company
“In 2019, the National Arts Center will launch a new Indigenous Theatre – a department devoted to indigenous performing arts that is intended to be an equal to the arts centre’s long-established English and French Theatre companies.”
Why Our Minds Wander (Does It Matter?)
“Many philosophical and religious traditions teach that happiness is to be found by living in the moment, and practitioners are trained to resist mind wandering and ‘to be here now.’ These traditions suggest that a wandering mind is an unhappy mind. Are they right?”