“When you’re involved close up with something like that you start to worry about the ethos of the Olympics and whether the original spirit of the Games is really reflected in what we have now,” artist Neville Gabie said
Tag: 05.20.12
New York Finally Hears A Star Soprano Who’s Rarely In Town
“New York likes to think of itself as being the classical music capital of the world. Yet every so often it falls off the flight path of certain eminent musicians. Cecilia Bartoli, Carlos Kleiber, Birgit Nilsson and Brigitte Fassbaender are just a few of the great artists who have skipped New York for long stretches. The same goes for the superb Nina Stemme, widely considered the world’s reigning dramatic soprano.”
As Phantom Tollbooth Turns 50, A Talk With Its Creator
“‘I started thinking about it,’ Norman Juster explains, ‘and I came to the conclusion that this kid had gone into a world where everything was correct but nothing was right. That was a feeling I understood.'”
Losing What Makes Philadelphia Itself – Yes, We’re Still Talking About The Barnes
Sure, more people will come to Philly to see the new Barnes. But “the repackaging of the Barnes may also be seen as the latest in a string of changes to Philadelphia that dilute its special character — advancements that bring Philadelphia into conformity with what visitors from other places may expect, but that also render the city more generic.”
Florida Orchestra Librarian Knows The Score – Actually, All Of The Scores
Ella Frederickson, who preps more than 21,000 pages of music a season for the Florida Orchestra also plays the cello and the theremin, works as Marin Alsop’s personal music librarian – and now serves as the president of the Major Orchestra Librarians’ Association.
Western Classical Music Begins Catching On In India
In a culture with its own centuries-old, very strong and very different classical music traditions, European art music had only a tenuous toehold in the subcontinent. This situation is slowly but surely changing, with an increase in students and great improvements in teaching, notably in and around Delhi.
Meet The One Man With Two Guv’nors
“Part of the secret of [James] Corden’s comic gift is that he combines innocence so naturally with mischief. Although he’s 33, his face is that of an adolescent boy who has just discovered beer, Internet porn and some new flavor of potato chip.”