“New funding for investment in UK talent is always a good thing but the Arts Council should be supporting the music industry’s excellent record of breaking talent, not attacking it with ill-judged sound bites.”
Tag: 05.29.13
Did The Audience Really Riot At Premiere Of Rite Of Spring?
Here are the facts as best as are known…
Is It Still Possible For Art To Shock?
Well yes, but does anyone pay attention?
The Piano Teacher With Five Students In The Van Cliburn Competition
Francois Naboré, head of the International Piano Academy Lake Como in Italy, is widely acknowledged as one of the most successful piano teachers in the world — a keyboard “Yoda” — who, during the quadrennial Cliburn competitions, is often seen roaming the hall, dapper and distinguishable, morning and evening, in a pin-striped suit.”
Culture Wars In Poland Over 2010 Air Disaster That Decimated Government
“On a foggy April morning in 2010, the Polish president’s plane crashed over Smolensk in eastern Russia, killing him and 95 other members of Poland’s political and military elite, traumatizing the nation and opening a bitter political divide over what caused the disaster. Now the fissures have spread to the cultural realm, as filmmakers, writers and artists fiercely debate how – or even whether – to portray this still-visceral history.”
The Problem With David Mamet’s Turn To The Right
“To my mind, though, all is not well when a dramatist has become so thoroughly cynical that his world-view only makes artistic sense when served up under the licence of wild larkiness.”