It’s the image of a leaf. “Experts will spend months poring over Leaf and looking at documentation from Wedgwood’s time to try to pin down whether it is his work. The image originally came from the collection of Henry Bright, whose prominent Bristol family was connected to the scientific community in and around 1800.”
Tag: 05.07.08
Cuts In Theatre Training Threatens Scottish Theatre
“The theatre, TV and film industries would dwindle away without a steady flow of versatile young recruits – but that’s the likely effect of the cutbacks troubling Scotland’s two leading drama schools. It’s a damning reflection of how the education system has become preoccupied with economics instead of learning.”
Show Closes After Just One Performance
Glory Days has closed after just one performance on Broadway. “Sadly, given the overnight reviews and our low advance sales, we believe it is prudent to close the show on Broadway immediately.” The show had received promising, if not adulatory, reviews during its debut earlier this season at the Arlington, Virginia- based Signature Theatre.
Ross: NY Better Off Without Muti
Alex Ross says that there’s no reason for the New York Phil to be lamenting the loss of Riccardo Muti to Chicago. “After two music directors of the elder-statesman type, it was time for a younger leader, one alert to the challenges and opportunities of presenting classical music in modern America… [Alan] Gilbert now has more room to make his mark, without the shadow of a jet-set celebrity conductor hanging over him.”
Good Numbers For Carnegie Int’l
Pittsburgh’s Carnegie International art festival is booming, “as visitors packed parties, filled galleries, and plumped the bottom line of cafes and gift shops. The Carnegie drew 1,377 to its Friday night gala, 933 for the Strolling Dinner with 444 more joining the festivities during the Late Night Event… The weekend museum attendance [was] 2,677.”
Opera And Canadian Hip Hop, Together At Last
“If you had to pick a pair of musical genres furthest apart from each other, opera and hip hop would be a fairly safe bet… Nonetheless, these star-crossed genres are coming together in a performance called The Hip Hopera, a new collaboration by the Canadian Opera Company and the Royal Conservatory of Music.”
Book Banning Down, But Gay Penguins Still Unpopular
“A children’s story about a family of penguins with two fathers once again tops the list of library books the American public objects to the most… Overall, the number of reported library challenges dropped from 546 in 2006 to 420 last year, well below the mid-1990s, when complaints topped 750.”
NY Musicians Lament Loss Of Muti To Chicago
Not everyone is happy about the Chicago Symphony’s appointment of Riccardo Muti as music director – the New York Philharmonic, for instance. “I felt there was a relationship here, and he had committed to us,” said Irene Breslau, a Philharmonic violist. “All of a sudden, it’s like somebody going out with your best friend and marrying them.”
Happy Ending To Lost Strad Story
In April, Philippe Quint became one of the recent mob of violinists to leave his invaluable fiddle behind in public – in this case, in a New York cab. Quint got his instrument back when the alert cabbie turned it in, and in gratitude, Quint spent part of a day this week playing a private concert for the cabbies at the Newark Airport.
Ups And Downs At Christie’s
“Fears that the Christie’s sale of Impressionist and modern art would usher in a market meltdown were assuaged early Tuesday evening when everything from a Monet landscape to a monumental sculpture by Rodin brought record prices. But the sale also had its bumps, as 14 out of 58 works failed to sell because they were considered either too expensive or second-rate examples by first-rate artists.”