“NYMF had altered its contract with participants this year to guarantee the festival 2 percent of the applicant and author’s gross ‘on all income received from the play in excess of $20,000 over 10 years.’ The Dramatists Guild complained that such rights exceeded what NYMF was entitled to as a nonproducing partner.”
Tag: 06.29.10
E-Books Won’t Vanquish Print (Thanks, Marshall McLuhan)
“Movies didn’t finish theater. TV didn’t destroy movies. E-books won’t destroy paper and ink. The Internet and e-books may set back print media for a while, and they may claim a larger audience in the end. But a lot of people who care about reading will want the feel, the smell, the warmth, the deeper intellectual, emotional, and spiritual involvement of print.”
A Creator Dukes It Out With A Teen Pirate, Via E-Mail
“Hey there!” Jason Robert Brown wrote to each of 400-odd people offering his sheet music free online. “Can I get you to stop trading my stuff? It’s totally not cool with me. Write me if you have any questions, I’m happy to talk to you about this.” And he included his e-mail address. Most quickly complied, but one teen worshiper of the composer was a case study in intransigence.
Vanessa Redgrave, James Earl Jones In Driving Miss Daisy
“The production, which will be directed by David Esbjornson, marks the first time that Alfred Uhry’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 1987 play will receive a Broadway staging.” Opening is set for October.
Prince Charles’ Defense: Just Speaking Up For Regular Folk
“Today Sir Michael Peat, the prince’s private secretary, claimed Charles opposed Lord Rogers’ £3bn modernist designs because ‘it is part of the Prince of Wales’ role and duty to make sure the views of ordinary people that might not otherwise be heard receive some exposure’.”
Arts Council Of Wales To Cut Roster Of Funding Recipients By One-Third
ACW “plans to award core annual funding to 71 organisations, including four that have not had [revenue-funded organization] status in the past. … But under the plans, 32 arts bodies including Beaufort Theatre, Gwent Theatre and the Hay Festival of Literature and the Arts will lose their regular core funding at the end of next March.”
Juilliard Quartet’s First Violinist Resigns After One Year
“Nick Eanet, who joined the Juilliard String Quartet less than a year ago as first violinist, is resigning for health reasons.”
Stolen Caravaggio Recovered In Ukraine
“The painting, called the Taking of Christ, or the Kiss of Judas, and considered the most valuable piece of art in Ukraine, was stolen from a museum in the Black Sea port of Odessa in 2008 in what officials described as a ‘cultural catastrophe’.”
When Authors Have To Leave The Writing Cave
AL Kennedy: “Time was, writers didn’t have to appear – they didn’t need to support and maintain an appearance. … Everyone was equally covered in mammoth blood and filth, or olive oil and filth, or leprosy and filth, and all was well.” No such luck these days.
Historian: Plato Embedded Messages In 12-Note Scale
When the texts are divided into 12ths, “‘significant concepts and narrative turns’ within the dialogues are generally located at their junctures. Positive concepts are lodged at the harmonious third, fourth, sixth, eight[h] and ninth ‘notes’, which were considered to be most harmonious with the 12th; while negative concepts are found at the more dissonant fifth, seventh, 10th and 11th.”