“Less than three hours after the Grant Park Music Festival cancelled Wednesday’s opening concert, a tentative agreement has been reached between the festival and musicians. Tomorrow night’s season-opening program will take place as scheduled, with Carlos Kalmar leading the Grant Park Orchestra in music of Barber, Poulenc, and Mussorgsky.”
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Five Join The Ranks Of NEA Jazz Masters
“The National Endowment for the Arts has named its 2017 NEA Jazz Masters: the musicians – Dee Dee Bridgewater, Dave Holland, Dr. Lonnie Smith and Dick Hyman – and the jazz historian Ira Gitler. Each will each receive $25,000 and be honored at a tribute concert at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington on April 3, 2017.”
Hollywood Guilds Back Bill To More Rigorously Enforce Foreign Work Visas
“For years, the guilds have complained that they are not adequately involved in the process and that applicants aren’t properly evaluated. The new bill would require the Secretary of Homeland Security to provide appropriate organizations with copies of the Citizenship and Immigration Services’ O visa application decisions.”
We’re Losing Our Freedom Of Speech (Here’s How)
“While the 20th century saw a worldwide expansion of free-speech protections, over the past decade, press freedom and human rights organisations have reported a troubling rise in governments cracking down on free speech, especially in areas related to digital communication.”
Medieval Graffiti, And All The Things We Can Learn From It
For one thing, explains historian and archaeologist Matthew Champion, there’s a lot of it, especially in churches – faces, hands, personal marks, horses, geese, “witch marks” made with compasses, sailing ships, demons (but no angels) – and it provides some of the only direct evidence we have of the medieval European 99%.
Remember Microfiche?
Ernie Smith offers tidbits from the history of those little sheets and their coiled cousin, microfilm – from the invention of the process for making and reading them back in the mid-19th century to when carrier pigeons transported microfilmed documents across enemy lines to the adoption of microfilm and -fiche by libraries to the thing the medium is still well-suited for today.
Even Tap Dance Genius Michelle Dorrance Has Been Reduced To Rehearsing In A Boys’ Bathroom
Space for dance rehearsals in New York City is so scarce (and getting scarcer as real estate prices keep rising) that even a MacArthur “genius” fellow must resort to desperate measures just to prepare her company to perform. (audio)
Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre Abruptly Suspends Operations
“Rising rent costs, dwindling institutional support, and [company director Carmen Khan’s] personal battle with cancer last winter all contributed to the decision to temporarily cease performances. Until this morning, [the company’s] website was stuffed with programming through December, and when the Inquirer asked about the status of the theater last week, Khan insisted that nothing out of the ordinary was brewing.”
L.A. Dance Project Lands Three-Year Residency In South Of France
Benjamin Millepied’s company “will spend five nonconsecutive weeks a year in Arles, where the company will be able to work, create and produce, a spokesman for the LUMA Foundation said by email. The foundation is the brainchild of Maja Hoffmann, the cultural philanthropist and heiress of a prominent Swiss pharmaceutical fortune.”
It’s Official: ‘Hamilton’ Is Headed To The West End Next Year
“The musical, written by Lin-Manuel Miranda, will run at the Victoria Palace Theatre, which is currently being refurbished after Cameron Mackintosh purchased it. Tickets will go on sale for the show in November.”