Tag: 05.12.04

Noble: My “Vile” Last Year At The RSC

Adrian Noble speaks about his bumpy last year and resignation as head of the Royal Shakespeare Company: “Of course, there were things that went dreadfully wrong at the RSC, and I deeply regret them. The principal mistake was announcing everything at the same time. I did not leave the RSC in a mess. For one thing, the deficit was £1 million less than what I inherited in 1991, and all the big successes that have come to fruition in the last couple of years – the Jacobean season, Judi in All’s Well – are the result of the changes I was setting up.”

Jazz As Institution (Lincoln Center)

“Jazz at Lincoln Center’s first season in its $128 million new home in the Time Warner Center at Columbus Circle will be a dialogue between the music and where it will be played. It’s a program — starting in the fall and to be announced today — that has been carefully thought out from the moment the organization began to conceive the hall’s physical space six years ago.”

Jencks Wins Gulbenkian Prize

Charles Jencks’ “wriggly earth bank set around three sinuous ponds, which transformed a flat patch of scrubby grass in front of the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh, has won the £100,000 Gulbenkian museums prize, the richest single prize in the arts. The £380,000 design, Landform is based on chaos theory. Loved by visitors almost to destruction in less than two years, parts have had to be returfed already. Jencks’s inspiration was La Grande Jatte, Seurat’s painting of a Paris park.”

A Home For Jazz

Jazz at Lincoln Center is “the world’s first performance center built for jazz, and the hall represents a milestone for jazz as an American art form. Construction is scheduled to be completed in July, and opening night, after a summer of private “tuning” concerts and adjustments, is set for Oct. 18. The project commits $128 million and prime real estate to recognize the lasting importance of music that was born in the streets.”