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Tag: 05.22.19
Conductor Alan Gilbert On The New York Philharmonic And The Hamburg Elbphilharmonie
“The 2019-20 season will be Alan Gilbert’s first with the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester in Hamburg. On paper, a German radio orchestra, with the system’s long tradition of advocacy for new repertoire, would seem to be an excellent fit for Gilbert. Over two conversations, one in a Hamburg café, the other on the phone, we talked about how taste is made, gender quotas for orchestras, self-doubt, and parenthood.” – Van
London’s Philharmonia Orchestra Names Successor To Esa-Pekka Salonen
Santtu-Matias Rouvali, 33, begins his 10-weeks-a-year, five-year contract term at the start of the 2021-22 season. He is also chief conductor of the Gothenburg Symphony (which is the official national orchestra of Sweden), where he just extended his term for four years), and the Tampere Philharmonic in Finland’s second city, where “the Rouvali effect” has seen extra concerts scheduled to meet audience demand. – The Times (UK)
Cabaret Star Baby Jane Dexter Dead At 72
“[She] first gained acclaim in the 1970s, when she appeared in New York nightclubs as a bluesy singer with a powerful voice and presence. She dropped out of show business for a decade before returning to the stage in the 1990s, using elements from her personal life — her size, her experience of sexual assault and depression — to heighten the emotional intensity of her performances, which were often so intimate that they seemed to be exercises in group therapy.” – The Washington Post
For The First Time, The Met Museum Will Put Sculpture In The Sculpture Niches In Its Façade
Kenyan-American artist Wangechi Mutu is casting works to be displayed in the empty niches this fall, while Cree Canadian artist Kent Monkman is creating large-scale site-specific paintings for the museum’s Great Hall. (Meanwhile, the museum’s board presented the first balanced budget in three years.) – The Art Newspaper
Finale Of Hilary Mantel’s Cromwell Trilogy Has Official Publishing Date
Yes, that billboard in London was a piece of viral marketing. One day after it set social media atwitter (ahem), HarperCollins revealed that it will release The Mirror and the Light in March of 2020. (Henry Holt will be the US publisher; in the UK, the book will appear under the Fourth Estate imprint.) – The Bookseller (UK)
Study: Women Perform Better On Tests In Warmer Rooms
The results suggest that “ordinary variations in room temperature can affect cognitive performance significantly, and differently for men and women,” write co-authors Tom Chang of the University of Southern California and Agne Kajackaite of the Berlin Social Science Center. – Pacific Standard
Computer Wars
Rifftides reader Orsolya Bene writes, “Listening to jazz on the radio after finishing chores. “North Of The Sunset,” by Thelonious Monk was just playing. Now, it’s the Denny Zeitlin trio. The radio guy must be channeling you.” – Doug Ramsey
Author Binyavanga Wainaina, Leading Kenyan Gay Rights Activist, Dead At 48
“One of the first high-profile Kenyans to openly declare he was gay, … he won the Caine Prize for African writing in 2002 and was best known around the world for his satirical essay ‘How to Write About Africa.’ Wainaina was also named among Time magazine’s 100 most influential people in 2014 for his gay rights activism.” – BBC