“Harry Bicket, the British early music specialist, is to be the next chief conductor of Santa Fe Opera, starting in October. He succeeds conductor Frederic Chaslin, who resigned last August after just two seasons on the job, saying he wanted to focus on composing and his duties as music director of the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra.”
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Lalgudi Jayaraman, 82, Titan Of South Indian Violin
Regarded as one of the top performers of Carnatic (South Indian classical) music on any instrument, Jayaraman was respected as a both a great soloist and an accompanist of singers and other instruments, composed numerous concert pieces and several film scores, and was a very influential teacher who developed an entirely new fingering technique for his instrument.
150,000 Petitioners Ask UK Prime Minister To Tax Amazon
“Supported by Stephen Fry, Margaret Hodge and Charlie Higson, independent booksellers Frances and Keith Smith delivered a petition calling on David Cameron to take ‘decisive action [to] make Amazon pay its fair share of UK corporation tax’ to Downing Street on 24 April.”
UK Museums Will Have To Pay Royalties For Images With Unknown Copyright Holders
“Museums will have to pay upfront for orphan images, or images whose copyright owners cannot be found, after an amendment to the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill to limit proposals was narrowly defeated in the House of Lords.”
Thailand Bans Documentary About 2011 Protests And Cambodia Border Dispute
“Nontawat Numbenchapol’s documentary Boundary zeroes in on a soldier caught up in the 2011 ‘red shirt’ protests that paralysed Bangkok and led to the deaths of almost 100 people, before following him to his hometown on the Thai-Cambodian border.” The Thai culture ministry’s ban on the movie calls it “a threat to national security and international relations.”
Injury Recovery Secrets Of The Joffrey Ballet
If anyone would know how to recover from injury, it’s ballet dancers.
Is Ai Weiwei Even An Artist Anymore?
Jonathan Jones: “Ai Weiwei is the most important artist in the world right now, a visionary who is defying an entire political system. He is a hero. And yet, is he actually an artist at all? Has his art vanished into the storm of polemic?”
How The E-Book Challenges Our Notions Of Ownership
“It used to be that a book was published, and that was it. Permanent, physical, tangible, it could be referred to for as long as the copy survived. That’s not the case any more. We live in a world where page numbers – if they exist at all – don’t correlate from device to device, where digital text can be updated at the touch of a button, where the ebooks we own can vanish without our say-so. It’s something which is becoming a real issue, particularly for academics.”
The World According To Google (An Increasingly Powerful Role)
“As Google evolves its role on the world stage, the fundamental question might be less about whether states might regulate Google, but whether states can compete against such a powerful, global technology platform.”
Why Have Pop Music Tickets Gotten So Expensive?
“Back in the 1970s, a ticket to a Rolling Stones concert in Toronto cost around $8. Tickets for the band’s upcoming Toronto stops on its 50th anniversary tour start at $166.50, with the priciest spots listed for upwards of $600 a seat.”