“Steven Spielberg on Wednesday predicted an “implosion” in the film industry is inevitable, whereby a half dozen or so $250 million movies flop at the box office and alter the industry forever.”
Tag: 06.13.13
Auditors Express Doubt About Nashville Symphony’s Viability
“Independent auditors of the Nashville Symphony say ‘there is substantial doubt’ about the symphony’s ability to continue as a going concern, according to a new audit posted on Givingmatters.com.”
ABT’s Ballet Mistress Remembers Vaganova
Irina Kolpakova: “Vaganova told us to use all parts of our body together at the same time. Not only this movement for the leg, this movement for the arms, this movement you’re supposed to learn how to use for your head, neck. No, all together, all the time.”
ABT Names New Ballet Master
“Keith Roberts, a former principal dancer with American Ballet Theater, has been named a ballet master, Kevin McKenzie, the theater’s artistic director announced Thursday. The appointment is effective this September.”
Evelyn Waugh On Truman Capote
“Of Mr. Capote’s prose it is hard to speak temperately. It is some sort of jargon quite unfamiliar to me. Of the information he seeks to convey, I am no judge. I have a distant acquaintance with a few of the subjects.”
The City That Writers Loved, And That Adores Them Right Back
“Writers fall in love with cities all the time. But ever since Pushkin spent thirteen months here in 1823, Odessa has been a city infatuated with its writers. At the Odessa Literary Museum … docents can tell you the number of days a given writer was here … and who wrote which chapters of their greatest works while in residence … [and] who burned manuscripts written in Odessa.”
A Look At Honolulu’s Theater Scene
“Except for Honolulu Theatre for Youth (HTY) there is no resident professional theater in Hawaii.” And when one local directeor was doing a fellowship at DC’s Arena Stage and was discussing with colleagues the purpose of theater, he surprised them by saying this: “The purpose of the theater is community service.”
How To Generate An Out-Of-Body Experience Without Drugs
Some scientists in Switzerland (of all places) seem to have figured out a way. (You didn’t think we were going to spill the secret in the blurb, did you?)
More Arts Council England Funding Cuts Signal Lack Of Government Support For Culture
“ACE is telling them a 10% cut to its budget may force it to cut its roster of regularly funded organisations from 696 to around 300. The organisation would also have to rely more on National Lottery money to supplement its government grant.”
Oprah Gives $12 Million To DC Museum
“After previously giving $1m (£640,000) to the National Museum of African American History and Culture, her total contribution is its biggest so far. The museum on Washington’s National Mall is due to be completed in 2015.”