What Makes A City A Music Capital?

“No city on earth has more nightly performance than London and none can approach its depth and diversity. Yet, in the premier league of music capitals, London struggles for recognition beside Vienna, Paris and Milan. It is regarded as a bit of a parvenu, a place of skimpy traditions, capital of what Germans used to call the Land Without Music.”

ABT Receives $5M Gift

“American Ballet Theater announced on Thursday that it had received a gift of $5 million from Toni and Martin Sosnoff … the single largest it has received from a private donor.” The money will be put into a fund dedicated to supporting all new ballets that ABT commissions.

Stupid Advice On Writing (From A Classic, No Less)

The Elements of Style does not deserve the enormous esteem in which it is held by American college graduates. Its advice ranges from limp platitudes to inconsistent nonsense. Its enormous influence has not improved American students’ grasp of English grammar; it has significantly degraded it. The authors won’t be hurt by these critical remarks. They are long dead.”