Boys Choirs Suffer, Thanks To Early (And Ever Earlier) Puberty

“An unrelenting march of puberty sweeps voices into rebellion. Over recent decades, the already-short careers of their sopranos have started to end between six months and a year earlier, challenging them at times such as Easter, for which choral music such as J.S. Bach’s St. Matthew Passion was written with difficult lines for boys free of hormonal woes.”

3D Goes Bollywood

Don’t think it’s all James Cameron (or Wim Wenders) – 3D is the medium of choice for many Bollywood filmmakers. Or at least, the medium of choice is converting 2D films with famous actors to 3D (and that’s not so different from Hollywood).

Booker Prize-winner Weighs In On The Israeli Theatre Debate

Howard Jacobson hits back at those who asked London’s Globe to withdraw an invitation to an Israeli theatre company. “If there is one justification for art… it is that it proceeds from, and addresses, our unaligned humanity. Whoever would go to art with a mind made up on any subject misses the point of what art is for. So to censor it in the name of political or religious conviction… is to tear out its very heart.”