“At some point, the core product DG was offering wasn’t enough to cover larger overhead and administration costs, salaries and fees, advances and marketing budgets. The label reacted to this development by distancing itself further from its core classical business and looking for new customers. And so the things that made the Yellow Label special fell increasingly away. Loyal fans began to look elsewhere for their quality records. Browse through forums for classical music obsessives today, and you’ll find few more common targets for invective than Deutsche Grammophon.”
Tag: 05.11.17
£2.3 Million Funding For Using Dance To Improve Health
“Previous Aesop research showed how the Dance to Health programmes could address a problem that costs the NHS £2.3bn a year, as the rates of completion for dance-based alternatives to NHS exercise courses are 55% higher. An evaluation of the Dance to Health pilot programme in February 2017 also concluded that dance artists could be trained to deliver classes which were an enjoyable artistic challenge, faithful to healthcare objectives, and would deliver measurable reductions in loneliness for participants.”
The Stuff That Keeps Museum Lawyers Awake At Night
Tax law, public art commissions, guns and people shooting them, and so on. Martha Lufkin gives an overview of the half-dozen biggest issues covered at a convention in Dallas for museum professionals sponsored by the American Law Institute and the Smithsonian Institution.
Louvre Abu Dhabi To Open (Finally!) In November
Some ten years after the contract was signed, after construction delays and controversies over conditions for the foreign workers building the place, the €1 billion museum, the Louvre’s first permanent branch overseas, should open sometime around American Thanksgiving, say sources.
Sergei Polunin Cancels His Return To London’s Royal Ballet
Two performances in Marguerite and Armand at Covent Garden in June were to be his first performances with the company – which trained him and where he became a principal at age 19 – since he walked away without warning five years ago.
Sydney Symphony Back In The Black After Near-Million-Dollar Deficit
For 2015, David Robertson’s other orchestra recorded a budget shortfall of A$896,811; this past year, the group bounced back with a surplus of A$785,984.
Was Robert Rauschenberg The Con Man Of Art?
There’s a volubility about Rauschenberg’s visual imagination that is irreconcilable with the discipline art demands. However monumental or panoramic a work of art may be, there must always be some acknowledgment of the limits of the artist’s vision. Rauschenberg didn’t know the meaning of the word “limits.” There was something of the outrageousness of a Ponzi scheme in the way he took this or that avant-garde idea and inflated it—over and over again.