“The artists there are very excited and they’re going all out. They’re looking at cultivating a better connection to the art world.”
Tag: 05.23.15
What It’s Like To Be A Deaf Novelist
“My first novel has recently become an audiobook to which I will not listen. The characters have been assigned voices and accents and inflections that I’ll never hear.”
These Are Ruins That Even ISIS Can’t Destroy
“Decay and loss is the point. If ISIS knocks down the columns, or dynamites the carved lion’s head I found lying around that day, the disaster will be survivable. … I’ll take some consolation knowing the site has been explored and recorded by waves of archaeologists for more than a century. We know Palmyra’s secrets, and cannot lose them.”
How Juilliard Is Changing Early Music – And Contemporary Music, Too
“After just five years our students now play as regulars or ‘deps’ – or stand-ins – in pretty much all of the main North American period instrument orchestras, as well as in Europe and in their own new groups. Will it one day reach saturation point? I don’t know. But we certainly haven’t come close to that yet.”
A Story About Brothers, Rams And A Remote Iceland Valley Won At The Cannes Festival’s ‘Sidebar’
Of course it did. And “the top prizes for the main selection will be awarded on Sunday night during the closing ceremony at the Palais des Festivals in Cannes.”
The Bookstore That ‘Wimpy Kid’ Built
“With this foray into retailing, Mr. Kinney is joining a handful of authors who are injecting cash and a dose of literary celebrity into what seemed a dying trade.”
Last Week Berlin Philharmonic Musicians Deadlocked On A New Music Director. Here’s How It Happened
“It is hard to see how enough players can be swayed from Thielemann to Nelsons or vice versa in order for the orchestra to bury its differences and rally around a new music director. That leaves three options, none of them easy.”