“The phony battle between the channels doesn’t convey the truth about how we listen to music. Different music can inspire different emotions, can suit different moods. In this country we have the most extraordinary range of radio stations.”
Tag: 05.30.10
Pianist Leon Fleisher: How Searching For Perfection Wrecked My Life
Now nearly 82, and one of the outstanding musicians of our time, he looks back on his search for perfection as something that has brought him “great despair, self-pity and unhappiness allied with commensurate ecstasies”.
The UK’s Biggest Touring Acts This Year? Comics
The biggest selling live tour in Britain this year is not a superannuated rock band but Peter Kay’s 90-date Tour That Doesn’t Tour Tour, which has sold more than 750,000 tickets and includes 35 nights in Manchester alone. The manager of the Manchester Evening News Arena in the city described Kay’s tour as the “the biggest arena tour by anybody, ever, in this country”.
The Viral Justin Bieber Phenomenon
“By now, of course, everybody on the planet should realize that Justin Bieber is the Canadian-born, platinum-selling, swaggering 16-year-old with a baby face and a Beatles-redux hairstyle. And yet Biebermania was concocted – it is the product of a carefully engineered marketing campaign that plucked a downy kid from small-town Ontario and relocated him to a hip-hop hotbed in the Deep South.”
Colorado Theatre Loses Its Integrity Over Smoking?
“So let me get this straight: In Colorado, where we’re now dispensing legal medical marijuana on just about every street corner, it remains a criminal offense to light up a fake cigarette on a stage.”
Does Lack Of Funding Stunt The Arts? Maybe Not…
“Our public funding doesn’t limit our initiative, and it doesn’t make us lazy thinkers. A generation of new artists is coming through whose desire to reuse, borrow and recycle is driven as much by being green as by saving money. It’s a truism that in the theatre, constraint is a condition of our creativity but it’s important to stress that our ability to make constraint a virtue isn’t limited to periods of austerity.”
Sean Haldane Talks About The Power Of Poetry To Change Us
Neuropsychology can help to explain poetry, to demystify the impulse. There has been work done on why poetry can send shivers down our spine. The poem activates the same parts of the brain that react when a child is separated from its mother. A deep sense of separation and longing.
John Waters’s Life In One Twitter-Sized Nugget
To Deborah Solomon: “Every year I visit [one of the Manson Family killers] on Oscar morning. I go from her prison to Elton John’s dinner party. I guess, oddly, that sort of sums up my life.”