Tag: 06.29.18

A Queer Feminist Bookstore Opened In Mississippi And Made Someone Faint

OK, the person fainted because they’d had too much to drink, and the opening was too packed, but still. More Q&A: “Who’s your favorite regular? There was the five-year-old daughter of the owner of a thrift store on the next block who would come in, find some books, walk to the front, and hand me a five-dollar bill over the counter with a beatific smile. She wasn’t totally clear on the concept of sales tax, but I usually covered it for her.”

What Is A Hole (And How Does Our Definition Affect How We Understand Reality)?

Consider the holes in doughnuts. No, not the “doughnut holes” made out of the dough, because they’re clearly not holes. “If we do not take the removed dough to be the hole, then what do we take the hole to be? Are holes material things, where material things are physical (like tables and chairs), or are holes immaterial things, where immaterial things are not physical (like abstract entities)? Or are holes not even things at all?”

How To Write About Genocide In A Rock Musical

Lauren Yee, who wrote the new musical Cambodian Rock Band, explains why it works so well. “Cambodian music is not just covers of American or Western music. It’s really this modern, distinctive sound that is found nowhere else. It is kind of all these influences, from traditional Cambodian music, French New Wave, some of the Vietnam War-era radio. It is so ingrained in the culture in a way that I just find incredibly unique.”

Sarasota Ballet Brings A Dancer Who Resigned After Accusations Of Sexual Misconduct Back To A New York Stage

The dancer is Marcelo Gomes, who resigned from American Ballet Theater in December of 2017. Sarasota Ballet’s artistic director, Iain Webb, only wanted to talk about the former principal’s artistry. “Asked whether he had discussed the allegation against Mr. Gomes, he replied: ‘We didn’t go into the details. Whatever’s gone on, it hasn’t been made public, and he didn’t need to tell me.'”

New York’s Music Scene Suffers As The Frick Museum Expands

Anthony Tommasini: “For 80 years, New York audiences — and critics, including me — have felt as much affection for the Frick’s music room as the artists who have performed there, even ones of international renown. It truly is the closest thing to a 19th-century music salon this city has to offer. But the beloved room is, sadly, now on borrowed time.”

Three Orchestras, Three Conductors, 109 Players, And One Just Slightly Ambitious Symphony

When you want to perform Karlheinz Stockhausen’s “Gruppen” in the Tate Modern, and you really, really, don’t want the three orchestras to fall out of sync, you have to take rather a lot of meetings. The three conductors: “Pencils in hand, they laid out their scores on a table and mimicked their orchestras’ parts in a cacophony of hummed notes, whoops, grunts, bleats and birdlike sounds — and every once in a while, in unison, a triumphant’Bang!'”