An oboist by training, Malgoire in 1966 founded La Grande Écurie et la Chambre du Roy, France’s first period-instrument orchestra, with which he made more than 140 recordings.
Tag: 04.16.18
Top Posts From AJBlogs 04.16.18
Let’s move before they change the parking rate
No, I cannot quit writing about economic-impact-of-the-arts reports. Let’s try something a little more focused, and talk about … parking. Parking is part of the cost of attending a show, if it takes place in … read more
AJBlog: For What It’s Worth Published 2018-04-15
Fixing the Actual “Glass Ceiling” at the Metropolitan Museum: My Q&A with Keith Christiansen
With all the recent pushback against the supposed “glass ceiling” at the Metropolitan Museum (occasioned by the naming of an eminently qualified male, Max Hollein, to assume its directorship), let’s take a look at another glass-ceiling problem there, which is unambiguous and needs immediate remediation: … read more
AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2018-04-16
West Side Story and Leonard Bernstein at 100
CultureCrash’s guest columnist, Lawrence Christon, remembers the Broadway roots of the film West Side Story, and has this to say about the forces that made it all possible. … read more
AJBlog: CultureCrash Published 2018-04-16
Music by the Second
Sometimes I’m amazed when I realize the number of clocks I encounter every day: on the wall, on the stove, on the phone, on the screen I’m typing on now. … Unlike the clocks I grew up with – clocks with faces and arms and reference points around a circle – the clocks that surround me now designate only the moment I am in, without context, without motion. … read more
AJBlog: Infinite Curves Published 2018-04-16
Monday Book Recommendation: Lilian Terry’s Jazz Friends
Lilian Terry, Dizzy Duke Brother Ray And Friends (Illinois)
Lilian Terry’s book is full of anecdotes about her friendships with the musicians mentioned in the title – and dozens of others. … read more
AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2018-04-16
Jerry Saltz Of New York Magazine Wins Pulitzer Prize For Criticism
“Known for an accessible and punchy writing style that decodes the complexities of contemporary art for a wide audience, Saltz is, perhaps, the most famous art critic in America. … [His] winning essay, ‘My Life As A Failed Artist,’ published last April, chronicles his pain and regret over an art career that never quite got off the ground – and what his experience as an art-school dropout taught him about being a critic.”
Pulitzer Prize For Drama Goes To Martyna Majok’s ‘Cost Of Living’
“The Pulitzer board called Cost of Living ‘an honest, original work that invites audiences to examine diverse perceptions of privilege and human connection through two pairs of mismatched individuals: a former trucker and his recently paralyzed ex-wife, and an arrogant young man with cerebral palsy and his new caregiver.'”
Andrew Sean Greer’s ‘Less’ Wins Pulitzer Prize For Fiction
“The novel centers on a struggling San Francisco author – Arthur Less – who, nearing age 50, decides to tour the world to escape himself. ‘The tragicomic business of being alive,’ he says, ‘is getting to him.’ … Greer is the author of five other books of fiction, including The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells, The Story of a Marriage and The Confessions of Max Tivoli.”
Future V. Past: The Stakes In The Netflix V. Cannes Battle
By putting its movies online immediately, the streaming service represents an existential threat to the French theater industry’s business; the Cannes rule change is just the latter’s mode of resistance (as the festival director, Fremaux is under tremendous pressure from French exhibitors). In announcing his decision to pull the company from Cannes, which is widely viewed as the world’s most prestigious film festival, Netflix’s chief content officer, Ted Sarandos, framed it to Variety as a battle between cinema’s past and future.
Historic: Kendrick Lamar Wins Pulitzer
The Pulitzer for music, which was first awarded in 1943, generally goes to contemporary classical music; a quick scan through the list of previous winners reveals a lot of operas and symphonies. Lamar, however, is a hip-hop artist, and DAMN. is a hip-hop album. Lamar is now not only the first person to win a Pulitzer for a hip-hop album but the first person to win a Pulitzer for any music that’s not classical or jazz.
Julia Bullock On Inventing The New Young American Musician
“I’m leery of any musician who doesn’t admit to going through a period of trying to emulate their musical idols, or their favorite performance of a piece, or even just trying to match what you’re hearing. Jazzers do it all of the time, and aren’t ashamed to admit it. I think it’s part of how you learn what it is that so struck you about the music or performance in the first place, it’s a path to discovering your aesthetic.”
The Rise Of An Aggressive (And, So Far, Successful) Podcast Network
Though many podcast networks are on the move right now, one has been dominant since its founding, taking advantage of “a quirk of the iTunes chart, which appears to reward an influx of new listeners rather than the overall size of an audience. As Mr. Quah put it, ‘it’s a hotness meter, not a bigness meter.'”
The Astronaut Who Took A Crash Course In Cinematography From Darren Aronofsky
For a National Geographic documentary, astronaut and engineer Paolo Nespoli turned into a cameraman – with a famous trainer. But that didn’t help much when space intervened: “The sensor seemed to be badly damaged, and this is normal when cameras go into space. … We are outside the atmosphere, yet all of us, including the cameras, get an abnormal dose of space radiation.” Oh.