Settling the strike is only the first mountain in a series of treacherous peaks that the financially crippled DSO has to scale on its way to a viable future. With $54 million in real estate debt, $9 million in projected deficits in the next three years, a rapidly shrinking endowment, subscription numbers as bloody as the end of a slasher movie and relationships between musicians and management as hostile as “The War of the Roses,” the DSO’s margin for error remains razor thin.
Tag: 04.05.11
Film Society Of Lincoln Center Prepares New Multi-Screen Venue
“The two new theaters in the complex, which will open officially on June 17, are meant to be intimate settings, with 150 and 90 seats. But the complex … will also include an indoor cafe and an auditorium – with a 152-inch plasma screen and a capacity for 75 people.”
Uncensored Version Of From Here To Eternity To Be E-Published
“When the classic novel From Here To Eternity was published in 1951, a few things were gone that had been in the original manuscript: explicit mentions of gay sex and a number of four-letter words. … Sixty years later Mr. Jones’s estate has made a deal to reissue a digital version of the book that restores those cuts.”
Ai Weiwei’s Public Art Project In Manhattan To Proceed As Planned
The installation of Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads, a 12-piece sculpture to be installed at the Pulitzer Fountain near the Plaza Hotel and Central Park, “will go forward even if Mr. Ai, who was detained by Chinese authorities on Sunday, is unable to be present.”