“For more than two decades, Ms. Hess helped shape the publishing industry by training a good percentage of its new recruits in an intensive six-week summer course and by acting as an industry matchmaker.”
Tag: 07.18.13
Does Spotify Reduce Piracy And Help Music Sales? Numbers Point To Yes
“Artists who have their music on Spotify see significantly less piracy — and as a result actually more record sales — than artists who don’t distribute their music over the service.”
How Chocolate Could Save Bookstores
“Customers were 2.22 times more likely to closely examine multiple books when the chocolate scent was present in the store, compared with the control condition.”
What Our Regard For Charles Ives Says About American Culture
“Perhaps the fact that Ives is widely acknowledged as our first master composer, and yet we aren’t willing to engage with with his challenging music, tells us something about our own era.”
NY Art Dealer Indicted For Selling Fakes
“Glafira Rosales, the art dealer at the centre of the scandal that has embroiled both the now defunct Knoedler gallery and its former director Ann Freedman, was indicted by a federal grand jury in New York on 17 July on charges that she sold Knoedler and another gallery more than 60 paintings that were fake, that she knew they were fake, and that the statements she made about their authenticity and provenance were false.”
Ballet Is Like Porn? Tamara Rojo’s Rhetorical Jujitsu
“Rojo’s argument … is a serious one, directed at the differences between male and female choreographers and the reasons why so few of the latter are working in ballet. Yet with one effortless flick of a porn reference, she’s spun this rather specialist issue right into the middle of the media’s attention.”
Broadway Spider-Man To Get Tell-All Book Treatment
The Song of Spider-Man: The Inside Story of the Most Controversial Musical in Broadway History, written by Glen Berger, who co-wrote the show’s script, promises to recount the backstage drama surrounding the gestation and birth(s) of Julie Taymor’s notoriously troubled and expensive project.
Ergonomic Seat Cushions Begin Appearing In New York
Broadway’s August Wilson Theatre and the Metropolitan Opera House are among the venues that are installing “cushions developed by the British company NuBax. They are designed to tilt the pelvis forward and straighten the spine, increasing blood flow and, therefore, attention spans.”
Composer Sues Cathy Rigby Over Peter Pan
“Cathy Rigby, the former Olympic gymnast turned stage actress, is being sued for millions of dollars by a composer who claims that he hasn’t been properly paid for his work on a production of Peter Pan that her company presented … [beginning] in 2004.”
The Meaning(s) of Cooking
“We make decisions every day about what to eat, and rarely do we choose our meals by empirical measures of biocompatibility or organic composition. The determination of what may be considered food – let alone what makes food ready to eat – is largely a cultural distinction. So Claude Lévi-Strauss noted when he observed and recorded the eating habits of tribal societies of North and South America in the mid-20th century. “