“In the Twin Cities, theater is in danger of becoming a market like academic publishing: everybody’s just making stuff for each other. In other words, it’s not a market at all. We’re all struggling to get a bigger piece of the pie, when the pie is a cupcake. We need a bigger pie.”
Tag: 06.03.10
Who Should Win Tony For Broadway’s Best Choreography This Year?
“I don’t envy the Tony judges their task this year: there’s no clear winner. The nominees are ‘Come Fly Away’ (at the Marquis Theater), ‘Fela!’ (Eugene O’Neill Theater), ‘Promises, Promises’ (Broadway Theater) and ‘La Cage aux Folles’ (Longacre Theater).”
Composer Benjamin Lees, 86
“After coming to prominence in the 1950s, he received commissions from major American orchestras; his solo and chamber works were given premieres by distinguished artists like the pianist Gary Graffman, the violinist Ruggiero Ricci and the Budapest and Tokyo String Quartets.”
Study: A Challenge To College Reading Lists?
“The findings suggest that certain kinds of books — on multiculturalism and the environment — dominate these reading selections. And the study, called “Beach Books,” questions whether the choices of colleges are too similar, too left-leaning and not sufficiently challenging.”
New World Symphony Plunges Into Technology
“For better or for worse, the Web, Twitter, Facebook, the iPad, and various iterations thereof are here to stay, and Tilson Thomas is determined to put his famed post-graduate fellows at the forefront of technology’s latest bells and whistles.”
Architecture Critic David Dillon, 68
“The architecture critic at the Dallas Morning News from 1983 to 2006, Dillon died suddenly this morning at his home in Massachusetts of an apparent heart attack. He was 68. His death comes as a shock because David had managed to beat an earlier bout with cancer.”
Karole Armitage On Dance And Physics
“Erotic is not a word usually associated with physics, but that is one of the ways Karole Armitage describes the complicated subject she explores in her new work Three Theories.”
How Will We Deal With Our ‘Digital Death’?
“The premise is that all of us now die twice. There is the old kind of death, the cessation of breathing kind, … [and] then there’s the digital kind of death. … By this they mean your online bank accounts, your usernames, your ever-multiplying entry codes. Your PayPal, e-mail, Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, Twitter, Flickr, Second Life, and WorldofWarcraft presences. What becomes of these precious assets when you die?”
Composer Eric Whitacre Lands Major-Label Contract
The popular young Californian – whose online virtual choir made a YouTube clip that has tallied more than 950,000 views – has signed an “exclusive, long-term recording contract” with Decca. “His debut album for the label, ‘Light & Gold’, will be recorded in August, and will feature Whitacre conducting choral works including three world premieres.”
Armenian Church Sues Getty Museum Over Pages From Medieval Bible
The Armenian Apostolic Church of the Americas “has filed a civil lawsuit against the Getty Museum, claiming the institution illegally bought seven pages from a sacred Bible. [The church] claims that the seven pages, which date back to 1256, were ripped from the … Zeyt’un Gospels [manuscript] during the Armenian Genocide.”