“Pedro Pupa, a corps de ballet dancer with the Sarasota Ballet, died Wednesday night from injuries after he struck a delivery truck that police say turned in front of him while he rode his bicycle … near The Ringling museum.”
Tag: 06.05.14
What Happens To The Brain During Spiritual Experiences?
“When practitioners surrender their will, activity decreases in their frontal lobes, suggesting that speech is being generated from some place other than the normal speech centers.” Welcome to the study of neurotheology.
Why People Laugh
“Laughter is universal, but we know very little about the reasons we do it. Dr. Robert Provine has been studying the social and neurological roots of laughter for 20 years, and has come to surprising conclusions about how we operate as human beings.” (video)
Sergei Polunin And Choreographer Settle Suit Out Of Court
The mercurial young ballet star (followed in short order by his colleague and mentor, Igor Zelensky) abruptly bolted from a London production of Peter Schaufuss’s Midnight Express last year. Schaufuss sued both men for breach of contract; they have now arrived at a confidential settlement.
If You Want To Really Understand ‘Ulysses’, Read About Its Obscenity Trial
“Joyce used an unapologetically forward-thinking brand of Imagism in service of the filthiest writing ever seen in a literary magazine to that point. … Obscenity was the lifeblood of Ulysses, the proof that it truly comprehended all human experience.”
Watching ‘Richard III’ With Bashar al-Assad
NPR correspondent Deborah Amos “recount[s] a trip to the Damascus Opera House with the Syrian president to watch a performance of Richard III – a performance where he knowingly slapped his knee in laughter when Baldrick wins an election with 99 percent of the vote.” (video)
Top Posts From AJBlogs 06.05.14
Making the old new (1)
How can older classical music — all those familiar masterworks — sound contemporary? Because most of the time they don’t.
AJBlog: Sandow | Published 2014-06-05
Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos: Not to be counted out yet
AJBlog: Condemned to Music | Published 2014-06-06
My Q&A with Timothy Potts: Reinstalling the Getty Museum’s Antiquities (and more on the Getty Bronze)
AJBlog: CultureGrrl | Published 2014-06-06
Songwriters Struggle in the Digital Age
AJBlog: CultureCrash | Published 2014-06-05
The Crocker’s Big Secret: A Good News Story
AJBlog: Real Clear Arts | Published 2014-06-06
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The Montreal Symphony Gets A New $4 Million Organ
“It is an imposing instrument with 83 stops (types of sounds) and 6,489 pipes—more than 25 tons of high-octane power, brilliance, flexibility and coloristic variety. But the organ’s highest achievement is how beautifully it blends into the aural fabric of the orchestra and, a few quibbles aside, how well it sounds in the pleasingly reverberant 1,900-seat hall.”
Still A Big Issue: Artists Getting Paid
“Although it sometimes seems hard to believe, the payment of artists remains a major issue, not just here in the US but also in the UK, as the Paying Artists reports make clear.”
US Justice Department To Reconsider Music Licensing Rules
“New technologies have dramatically transformed the way people listen to music. The system for determining how songwriters and composers are compensated has not kept pace, making it increasingly difficult for music creators to earn a living.”