“The Orchestre National de Lyon, France, announced on Tuesday that its current music director, Slatkin, 71, will leave that position at the end of the 2016-17 season.”
Tag: 04.05.16
Meet The Russian Cellist Outed In The Panama Papers For Controlling Billions Of Dollars
“Almost nobody in Russia remembered that Vladimir Putin’s closest friend from the 1970s was a St. Petersburg musician named Sergei Roldugin. Even fewer could imagine that the cellist with an old- fashioned haircut lived a secret life offstage, allegedly plotting huge scams and moving more than $2 billion through a network of offshore bank accounts and companies.”
And The Next Famous Property Matthew Bourne Will Adapt Is –
“It is some people’s favourite movie but the stage version was one of the biggest disasters in Broadway history. So the choreographer Sir Matthew Bourne admitted he was taking a risk as he announced his next production.”
To Be Or Not To Be (Pretentious Or Aspirational?)
“A discomfort with the radical, or the confusing, or the challenging—with artworks, and lives, that insist on being otherwise—is very often what lies beneath the charge of pretentiousness. As much as it’s a way of deflating some apparently empty cultural gesture, calling something (or someone) pretentious is also a way of defending yourself against the uncomfortable feeling of not getting something, or—worse still—the uncomfortable suspicion that you’re being had.”
Columbia University Students Protest A Sculpture – And P.C. Has Nothing To Do With It
“Unlike many campus outcries of the past year, this one has nothing to do with sexism or racism. [Henry] Moore’s Reclining Figure (1969-70), many students have said, is just ugly and doesn’t fit in with Columbia’s neo-Classical aesthetic.”
Hope Muir Names Artistic Director Of Charlotte Ballet
Muir thus becomes the third woman in her 40s to be named director of a ballet company in the last two months. (Aurélie Dupont will take over Paris Opera Ballet, and Julie Kent will lead Washington Ballet.)
What We Can Learn From Our Weirdest Dreams
“Dreaming is a kind of play in a set apart from space where ordinary rules of reality are suspended temporarily and we try out different strategies, we rehearse different kinds of behavior.”
Is My Family’s Painting Nazi-Looted Art? Because We Can’t Tell, It Hangs In Limbo
“The Nazis were superb record keepers. But not good enough to help me settle whether this work came out of Europe via theft or honest transaction. Instead, it has joined the growing ranks of paintings in provenance limbo.”
Why The Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame Should Be Closed
“Throughout all the talk, all the arguments, I’ve never heard anyone voice what I think is the root cause of all the problems: the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame is, essentially, anti-rock’n’roll.”
Counter-Intuitive Data: Box Office Results For Movies With African-American Leads
Inside the data, the researchers found something: “significant evidence that movies featuring black actors not only keep up with films at the box office and among the critics, but blow away films with no black actors at all.”