“I tried to explain to them that I’m artist and expressing myself is my job, my duty. That communicating is very important for me.” It wasn’t an argument that impressed the security men. “They kept telling me that I’m part of a Western strategy to change China.”
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How Music And Video Games Are Integrating Their Creative Processes
“We’re now entering an era of close co-operation; game developers are employing musicians who love games and understand them. And in return, music is becoming part of the design process.”
What Philip Larkin And W.H. Auden Wished They Hadn’t Written About Love
“These two lines – Larkin’s ‘What will survive of us is love’ and Auden’s ‘We must love one another or die’ – may be the most well-known lines of poetry about love written in the past century. But what’s remarkable about them both is that the poets who wrote them agonized over them, were conflicted and critical of their own lines. Both Larkin and Auden eventually tried to distance themselves from their original unmediated utterances.”
Two Decades Of The Major Ballet Prize Most Americans Have Never Heard Of
“One of the most prestigious prizes in the world of ballet, Benois de la Danse, celebrated its 20th anniversary last week at the Main Stage of the Bolshoi Theater.” Among the top winners: Alina Cojocaru and Lar Lubovitch.
China’s Conflicted Relationship With Free Expression Online
The Chinese Communist Party would love to keep the same tight lid on the Web, blogging and tweeting that it generally has on print and broadcast media. But that’s not easy: there are ways around The Great Firewall; and with 400 million or so users, local blogging and tweeting platforms are too big to censor and too popular to shut down.
Scottish Opera’s Maestro Agrees To One More Year
“Scottish Opera’s music director is to step down in 2013 after extending his contract by a single year to see out its 50th anniversary season. … The company was keen for him to stay on, but Corti had been considering his future ‘in the light of resources at the company’, one source said.”