06.03.15 – Page 2 – ArtsJournal Wayback

What Kind Of Music Do You Listen To? (The Way You Answer Might Change Soon)

“Spotify has found that playlists designed for activities like running or partying are as popular as those that center on more traditional genres, and its new version will make recommendations accordingly.”

Head Of Boston Public Library Resigns After Distovery Of $600,000 In Missing Art

“The library said last month it was bringing in an independent firm to review security protocols and that before any items were reported missing it was already working with an outside consultant to “organize, catalogue, inventory, and recommend processes to allow better security and control over” its more than 1.3 million Print Department holdings.”

The Songs We Listen To Have Been Defined By Technology. Now Streaming Is Changing Them Again

“Song length was affected by the amount a wax roll could hold. Song intros were a certain length so DJs could give call-out letters, traffic and weather. Song length has been a determining factor in radio airplay (too long = no play). The LP limited the amount of material that could be released; the CD expanded it, in some cases beyond what an artist had to say.”

Frick Museum Abandons Controversial Expansion Plan

“It just became clear to us that it wasn’t going to work,” said a museum official who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the board had not yet made the decision final with a vote.

New Twists In Battle To Revive New York City Opera

“Two bidders with competing proposals to buy the failed opera company’s name and intellectual property in hopes of reviving it are now in talks to try to resolve their differences. The opera’s board is also weighing a third option in a light of a bequest that could be worth millions of dollars. Instead of selling off the company’s assets, the board could reorganize the defunct company through the bankruptcy process, enlisting one of the two bidders as a sponsor of the reorganization plan.”

UK Refuses Visa To Georgian Theatre Company

Manchester’s Flare festival invited The New Collective, a young group based in Tbilisi, to perform next month. “But the British authorities are so concerned that this young collective will want to migrate to the UK that their visa application has been refused.”

Margaret Juntwait, Voice Of Met Opera Broadcasts, Dead At 58

“Juntwait was only the third regular announcer of the Met’s broadcast series, which launched in 1931, and the first woman to hold the job.” Before joining the Met, she was for several years a host of classical broadcasts on New York publc radio station WNYC.

Sacramento Ballet ‘Parts Ways’ With Executive Director

“[Caty] Solace has served in the top post since last year. She will remain as a consultant with the organization. The move comes after the ballet ended its 2014-15 season early this spring, canceled its popular Beer and Ballet event and laid off dancers with three weeks left in the season.”

Footnotes In Fiction – There’s A Real Art To Them

Consider not only David Foster Wallace, the great virtuoso/victim of the format, but also Chuck Klosterman, Mark Z. Danielewski, Jenny Boully, and the great father of the footnote as literary device, Vladimir Nabokov.

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