“Hill, who celebrates his 78th birthday today, was voted in ahead of nine other candidates with 1,156 votes, beating contenders including the Beat poet Michael Horovitz, the biographer Roger Lewis, Oxford-based performance poet Steve Larkin and South African poet Chris Mann.”
Tag: 06.18.10
Royal Ontario Museum names New Director
She’s Janet carding, currently director of the Australian Museum in Sydney. “The search was widely rumoured to have been difficult, with several prominent Canadian arts leaders quietly fingering the Crystal’s tumultuous reputation as the stumbling block. The jagged architecture and oddly-shaped gallery spaces have spurred strong opinions ranging from admiration to derision.”
Canadian Contralto Maureen Forrester, 79
Forrester was 20th-century Canada’s incarnation of the prototypical 19th-century diva. She sang incomparably, gave generously of her rare musical gifts and her worldly goods, and lived life “in the large.”
Man Charged With Defacing Shakespeare Folio
A jobless book dealer who posed as an international playboy “mutilated” a stolen £3m first edition of Shakespeare’s works, a court has heard. The prosecution at Newcastle Crown Court said he damaged it to hide the fact that it was stolen.
Soap Opera Diplomacy In The Middle East
“Through the small screen, Turkey has begun to exercise a big influence at Arab dinner tables, in boardrooms and bedrooms from Morocco to Iraq of a sort that the United States can only dream about.”
The Bad-Luck Ballerina: Natalia Osipova’s Very Difficult Week
She “was suffering from a throat sore enough to warrant a doctor’s appointment immediately after the rehearsal. Later she would cry, feeling ill and frustrated at her inability to perform the steps as she would like. And a week later she would be the victim of a mugging that would leave her bruised and shaken.”