“She posts just-written songs to YouTube and is a prolific correspondent on Twitter, soliciting creative feedback from her 558,000 followers, announcing impromptu gigs and selling tens of thousands of dollars of merchandise in flash sales. That engagement has brought her rare loyalty.”
Tag: 06.05.12
TV Dying? Not By A Long Shot
“I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: TV is not a device — it is an experience. Prime Time is not a time slot — it is an expectation of story-telling quality. ‘Television’ is an emotional exchange between artists and their audiences, regardless of where, when and how it takes place. No matter how these digital whippersnappers are doing it, by hook or by crook, they are still watching that stuff we call TV.”
London Library Emptied In Middle Of Night Could Be Saved
“The leader of Brent council in north London said they had agreed to sit down with local people who have been campaigning to save Kensal Rise library for more than a year and work with them over their proposal to run it at no ongoing cost to the local authority.”
Taboo-Breaking Wagner Concert In Israel Cancelled
“Tel Aviv University announced Monday that it would not permit a scheduled Wagner concert to take place on its campus, after it had evoked angry protests.” A TAU spokesman claimed that organizers never informed the university that the concert – part of a daylong symposium sponsored by the Israel Wagner Society – would include Wagner’s music.
The Director Who Can Get Almost Anyone To Watch Shakespeare
“[A]nyone can direct Shakespeare’s plays, yet few can get an array of adults and kids to engage with the Bard. But beginning 25 years ago, the diminutive Barbara Gaines, Chicago Shakespeare Theater’s founder and artistic director, found the way. How does she do it? ‘I have no idea,’ she says.”