“According to Operabase, an opera-statistics website, the world’s 40 most-performed opera composers last season were all dead. The most-performed living composer, Philip Glass, only saw his operas performed 66 times, compared with 2,586 performances for the top-ranked Verdi. Contemporary theatre, in contrast, is not only performed regularly, but attracts large crowds.”
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Do We Still Need To Learn To Write Cursive? Here’s Why
“The benefits of writing by hand, and doing so from a young age, are fundamental: improved and sustained development in social skills, hand-eye coordination, long-term memory. And when one considers “fluency” in its literal sense, it makes sense that cursive especially can energize a more fluid and coherent process of thought.”
David Mitchell Is Tweeting A Short Story
The author of Cloud Atlas and The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet “turns to the ‘diabolical treble-strapped textual straitjacket’ of Twitter for the first time to tell a new short story, ‘The Right Sort’. Mitchell will unveil his tale, about a boy tripping on his mother’s Valium pills, in Twitter’s 140-character bursts for the next seven days.”
Did Slavoj Žižek Plagiarize A White Supremacist Magazine? (Sort Of)
“[The] superstar Marxist philosopher … [has] been accused of the worst professorial misdeed of them all: plagiarism. And not just any plagiarism – plagiarism of a 1999 article in American Renaissance, a white supremacist magazine published by an organization that the Southern Poverty Law Center has designated a ‘hate group’.”
Hawaii Symphony Gives Musicians A New And Improved Contract
Only two seasons after the orchestra arose from the ashes of the long-troubled Honolulu Symphony, the Hawaii Symphony’s board is feeling confident enough not only to give its musicians a two-year contract but also to add an additional two weeks to each season.
Corcoran Gallery Trustees Respond To “Save The Corcoran” Lawsuit
“The opponents lack standing to intervene in the reorganization pending before the court, they have offered no viable alternative and they are seeking court-ordered relief that is beyond the scope of the law, the [museum’s] lawyers said” in a legal brief that called the lawsuit “obstruction for the sake of obstruction.”
More Than 150 Corcoran Gallery Staffers Face Layoffs As Merger Approaches
“The Corcoran issued a layoff notice to all of its employees last month, but the Corcoran expects about a third of them will actually be laid off as of Aug. 16, which is the effective date affiliated with the notice.”
My Three Sons All Do Ballet, And There’s Nothing Girly About It
The Kempsey-Fagg brothers of Birmingham – Oscar, aged 11; Marlo, 9; and Arlie, 6 – were all recruited by a Birmingham Royal Ballet outreach and education program for particularly promising young people. And they’ve got ready answers for anyone who might tease them about it.
Top Posts From AJBlogs 07.14.14
Creative Placemaking: 35,000-Foot View
AJBlog: Field Notes | Published 2014-07-14
The Most Common Expansion Mistake Hits The Perez
AJBlog: Real Clear Arts | Published 2014-07-14
Be the orchestra: thinking far beyond putting concerts online
AJBlog: Speaker | Published 2014-07-14
The cost of owning an art collection
AJBlog: For What it’s Worth | Published 2014-07-14
What are the Limits of Stage Direction?
AJBlog: OperaSleuth | Published 2014-07-14
Voyaging to a New Land
AJBlog: Dancebeat | Published 2014-07-14
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The Jazz Cemetery
“We’ve only got a few left,” he comments, adding that a “high percentage” of those who have invested will have done purely because of the proximity to the trumpeter.