The nonprofit consortium In the Pocket NYC “helps performers teach and teachers perform,” creating “a social network for professional musicians who offer private lessons, giving them built-in substitute teachers.”
Tag: 05.10.10
Art Dealer Salander Auctions Belongings To Pay Creditors
“The nearly 250-lot auction at Stair Galleries in Hudson, New York, was the first sale of Salander property since the art dealer pleaded guilty on March 18 to grand larceny and fraud in New York State Supreme Court. Salander, 60, was ordered to pay restitution of $120 million.” The sale “of the contents of Salander’s Upper East Side townhouse” netted $472,067.
Truman Capote’s Home Eyes Brooklyn Real Estate Record
“The spectacular home at 70 Willow St. in Brooklyn Heights – on the market Monday for just the third time in 70 years – is likely to break sales records in the borough and become the most expensive townhouse in its history.” The $18 million price tag is breathtaking, anyway.
New Business Models Begin To Take Hold In The Music Business
“As the traditional record business has turned topsy-turvy, artists as well as startup companies are developing ways to finance the making of music today. A couple of European websites, Sellaband.com and Slicethepie.com, act as revenue-generating conduits between musicians and fans.”
Italy To Boycott Cannes
“Italy’s culture minister will boycott the upcoming Cannes Film Festival to protest an Italian documentary that criticizes Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s relief efforts for survivors of the L’Aquila earthquake in central Italy last year.”
Writer Fay Weldon Says She Has Psychic Powers
The feminist author said she first noticed her special gift as a young child, and still uses it today to gain a deeper understanding of human feelings that enriches her work.
TV Theme Songs, R.I.P.
“TV theme songs, once a vibrant piece of pop culture, have been on the wane for years as networks experimented with ways to keep viewers from switching channels.Their mission? Get into and out of shows as quickly as possible and create a seamless blend of programming. (Oh, and cram as many commercials in there while you’re at it).”
Americans Are Watching Fewer Foreign Movies
“Foreign-language films represent less than 1 percent of the domestic box office at a time when Hollywood movies account for 63 percent of the global box office.”
Is There Such A Thing As Universal Music?
“When we listen to music from another culture, it’s easy to get it badly wrong… We are likely to miss most of the nuances and allusions, think it all sounds the same or even dismiss it as a racket. Most 20th-century ethnomusicologists who compared the music of different cultures argued that this was because the way we make music and respond to it is learned, and therefore culture-specific. Yet there does seem to be something universal about music.”
Hot On American Cable TV: Soft Porn
The oft-mocked genre, which has given the world such memorable fare as “Witches of Breastwick” and “Tarzeena: Jiggle in the Jungle,” is more visible — and valuable — than ever, even at a time when hard-core adult entertainment is easily accessible on every media device.