The Canadian drummer’s new album manages to meld elements of contemporary electronica with references to developments in the six decades since John Coltrane and Ornette Coleman turned the music in new directions. – Doug Ramsey
Tag: 04.05.20
A Novel Art Form For The Novel Virus
That’s right, it’s not a portrait: It’s a doortrait. – The Guardian (UK)
This Bavarian Village Has Performed The Passion Play Once Every Decade Since 1633 In Thanks For Being Spared From A Pandemic
But this year, another plague broke the record. “This year’s Passion Play, scheduled to premiere in May and run through the summer, had to be abandoned because of the coronavirus. An epic production, cast with local residents as actors, the play would have brought half a million visitors to the village and 2,500 people, or half of Oberammergau, onto the world’s biggest open air stage.” – The New York Times
Novelists Tell Us What To Read To Inspire Us
Sebastian Barry goes for the real classics: “It seems uncanny that there is a radiant book for these times, although it was written 2,000 years ago.” – The Guardian (UK)
Yes, The Bible Museum Had Some Issues
And now it wants to win over its critics by being honest about how many of its artifacts had tainted histories – or were entirely fake. – The New York Times
Listening To The Sirens’ Call
What a music critic who lives close to a major hospital hears in, and beyond, the now-constant sirens. “Most American ambulances contain an ‘electronic box in each vehicle, which comes preloaded with seven different sounds with names such as ‘Wail,’ ‘Yelp,’ and ‘Piercer.’'” – The New York Times
Is It Great Or Terrible That Quibi Is Launching In The Middle Of The Pandemic?
Quibi – whose ads you’ve likely seen if you’ve been online at all in the past four months – was meant to be a short-form video platform that people watched in moments of their commute or at quickly grabbed coffee breaks. Meg Whitman thinks people stuck at home will take breaks from screens with, uh, screens: “‘People have said, ‘I’m stuck in the house, I’m home-schooling, I need a break,’’ Whitman, the former CEO of eBay and Hewlett-Packard told me on a Zoom conference call with [co-founder Jeffrey] Katzenberg the other day. ‘‘I’m trying to keep everyone glued together and I need a 10-minute break. And by the way, I might watch three, four, five, six episodes of something that you have to offer.’ So I think people are going to come in new ways.'” – The Atlantic