A Visit To Göbekli Tepe, The Oldest Known Temple On Earth

Yasmine Seale: “One morning in May I stood in a dark room in southern Turkey, watching blue-skinned early humans domesticate wheat between bouts of interpretive dance. They were holograms, and they swayed across the walls to a doomy arrangement of bells, drums, and spectral voices: the soundtrack to the dawn of time. The display was a concession to drama in an otherwise austere complex of new museums – low, tan, elliptical structures tucked into a dip in the Harran plain – built to ease visits to Göbekli Tepe.”

What Classical Music Could Learn From Kanye West

Since entering the pop-music world, the judgments I would have made when I was in classical music about pop, I increasingly understand why they would have been irrelevant. And it’s made me appreciate that most classical music isn’t about the technical shit either. Pop includes a lot of what is called “extra-musical information.” The lyrics, that’s not music, that’s words representing outside ideas. The artwork, the music videos—all this stuff that’s not the music, but that is used to create the product. But it turns out that’s true in classical music. There’s no Mahler No. 9 without knowing his daughter died.

More Women Than Men Work In The Arts. We Need To Understand

We need to examine the reasons why the arts administration field grew to be female dominated, and ask questions such what are the short and long term trends?; how can more of a balance be achieved?; and what are the predictable negative and positive consequences of the trend continuing? We need to know the extent to which the female domination of the sector is at the lower ranks, and not in the higher leadership positions; whether or not pay inequity still exists between the sexes, and to what extent, in our field, and the extent to which comparative low pay vs. other fields keeps people of both sexes from entering the arts; why more men are not enrolling in, and graduating from university arts administration programs; and how we can move to a more balanced gender situation in our field — at all levels — while, of course, making progress on all the other diversity fronts that challenge us.

‘CATS’ Choreographer Gillian Lynne Has Died At 92

Lynne began as a ballet dancer but became famous as a choreographer for the West End and Broadway, where she worked closely with Andrew Lloyd Webber on Cats and Phantom of the Opera. “Lloyd Webber paid tribute to Dame Gillian on Twitter, writing: ‘Farewell dearest Gillie, three generations of the British musical owe so much to you.'”