“Partisans of “sharing” sometimes liked to say that they were hitting back against fat-cat music executives. In fact, all they were doing was hurting musicians. The bosses continued to do very nicely, thank you.”
Tag: 06.17.15
New Music To Sleep By (8-Hour Piece To Be Listened To From Bed)
“Sleep, an eight-hour piece which the the German-born British composer calls a “lullaby for a frenetic world,” will premier in Berlin this September. The overnight performance will go on from midnight to 8am, with audience members in beds rather than seats. It is set to be the longest single piece of classical yet written, and is scored for piano, strings, vocals and electronics.”
How Do You Merge Analog Theatre With Digital Attention? Goodman Theatre Experiments
“I want to find new ways to break down the walls of the theater and have conversations with audiences, to engage in conversations about change in Chicago.”
Pianist Paul Lewis Injured In Seagull Attack (Yes, Really)
He was leaving a rehearsal with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra when the angry bird swooped, causing Lewis to lose his balance, slip, and sprain a finger – reminding us that Scousers are not to be trifled with.
Bernini Sculpture Thought Lost Turns Up, Heads To L.A.
“The J. Paul Getty Museum has just acquired an important early sculpture by the Baroque master Bernini: a marble bust of Pope Paul V that many art historians did not believe still existed.”
The Man Who Midwifed Impressionism (As Well As Some Of America’s Great Art Collections)
Paul Durand-Ruel was the gallery owner who shepherded Renoir, Monet, Pissarro, Manet, Morisot and their peers past the haughty skepticism of the Paris art establishment – and their works into the hands of U.S. collectors. “Do not think the Americans are savages,” he once wrote. “On the contrary, they are less ignorant, less close-minded than our French collectors.”
L.A. Music Center Finds Its New Boss – At ABT
“Rachel Moore, a former dancer and the longtime top business executive of New York’s American Ballet Theatre, will be the next president and CEO of the Music Center in downtown Los Angeles.” The complex, the West Coast’s equivalent of Lincoln Center, is the home of Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Ahmanson Theater, Mark Taper Forum and Walt Disney Concert Hall.
Joffrey Ballet Gets Its First (!) Endowment
“It seems almost inconceivable that although it has been in existence since 1956, the Chicago-based Joffrey Ballet has never had an endowment, concentrating instead on making its operating budget. But a $500,000 challenge grant from the Rudolf Nureyev Dance Foundation, the match for which was exceeded by the company, has resulted in a new $1.5 million endowment for the company.”
The First MOOC? Why ‘Sesame Street’ Is Such A Powerful Educational Tool
“A new study out of the National Bureau of Economic Research suggests that the TV show is ‘the largest, and least expensive, early childhood intervention ever introduced in this country’.” How did that happen?
Anxiety Is Even Worse For You Than You Were Afraid It Was
“Anxiety, this research shows, uniquely interferes with ‘perspective-taking’ – that is, people’s capacity to put themselves in others’ shoes.The idea that anxiety impairs perspective-taking is important because it is just this sort of nervousness that crops up when an empathic connection is most sorely needed.”