“A former student at the prestigious Meadowmount School of Music [has] sued the institution, saying the director lured him into a homosexual relationship and prostitution. The accuser, now a young adult living in The Bronx, has accused school director Owen Carman of paying his tuition in exchange for sexual favors, asking him to be a gay “escort” and pose nude, and prompting him to have three-way sex with another male escort.”
Tag: 06.09.08
Charles Wuorinen Talks About His Brokeback Mountain Opera, Music
“I think my attitude is that I stand against a kind of pandering in the arts which I think is very destructive in the long run and has the characteristics of confusing high culture and popular culture and has the result of damaging both. Over the years I haven’t deviated much from my principal. I’ve been criticized for not going along with the flow, but I am not going to change my fundamental values because they have become less widely held than they used to be.”
Authors Get More hands-On In Promoting Their Work
“Marketing books has always been a tough business, but these days authors are joining forces with the publicity machine and working everything from fashion layouts to product endorsements to keep their amazon.com rank at the top.”
Viewers Down For Network TV But Advertisers Commit More Money
The Big Five nets will get $9.23 billion in upfront commitments this year, up 1.2% from last year’s $9.12 billion.
NEA Steps In To Help New Plays
“The National Endowment for the Arts is kicking in $280,000 for developing and producing new plays during the next 2 1/2 years. The NEA New Play Development Program has $90,000 each available for two scripts; they must be already written and attached to theater companies planning to stage their world premieres by the end of 2010.”
Musicians Cozying Up To Wal-mart (And Vice Versa)
“The deals highlight the changing dynamics of the music industry as once-powerful labels decline because of the migration to digital downloads. To fill the gap, musicians are scrambling to connect with fans, and Wal-Mart is using these exclusive deals to assume a new role: hit maker.”
Protests After California City Takes Down Art Exhibition
The show was deemed not appropriate for public display.
Ohio Cutting Back Arts Funding
The Ohio Arts Council is cutting seven positions from its staff of 35 and reducing unpaid grants by 7.7 percent to offset a $2.5 million, or 10 percent, reduction in state funding.
Canadian Police Recover Some Of The Stolen Haida Gold
“Police in B.C. say some of the artwork stolen from the University of British Columbia’s Museum of Anthropology has been recovered. Twelve works of gold jewelry by Haida artist Bill Reid and three Mexican necklaces comprised of gold coins were stolen from the museum overnight May 23 in a highly sophisticated break-in.”
The Architect’s Inner Music
Before he was an architect, Rafael Viñoly was a musician. “There is no piece of music that could relate to anything else but itself and its world. It is truly an independent. The one thing coplanar with music is the compositional aspect, the fact that you are composing something. Architecture is essentially a score, and what happens with it depends on the people who play it, enjoy it, use it, or hate it.”