Visa problems have resulted in the cancellation of another artist’s visit to Tanglewood. Earlier this season it was tenor Gwyn Hughes Jones, who had been slated to perform in Act I of “Tosca.” Now, the composer and conductor Oliver Knussen has been forced to cancel his appearance at the Festival of Contemporary Music, where he was to conduct a keenly anticipated memorial program in honor of the composer Gunther Schuller, featuring premieres by Schuller and Charles Wuorinen, on Thursday evening.
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A Composer Marrying Data Representation And Music
“You’re never really told how to feel when you look at a chart, even though it may have to do with something that is very human like income inequality or climate change. It ends up being just information that you don’t really internalize or contemplate. So I wanted to figure out how to take something like a chart but curate an experience in which you’d feel a certain way while listening to the song.”
One-On-One Theatre (And Clean Dishes Too)
The premise for Brian Feldman’s show, “Dishwasher,” is this: He will come to a person’s house, wash all of the dirty dishes, perform a monologue of the audience’s choosing and then conclude with a single question: “Am I a better actor or dishwasher?”
What Professional Sports Has To Teach The Performing Arts About Audiences
“For sure, the comparison between sports and performing arts is limited: Obviously, there’s no element of competition, no TV contracts, and much less private ownership of venues. Nevertheless, there are approaches that may have resonance, and reflect the way innovation is transferable; the way experiments and breakthroughs in one field may affirm and encourage breakthroughs in another.”
Marvel Is On An Epic Streak Of Top Blockbusters
Last weekend, “Ant-Man” became the 12th consecutive Marvel Cinematic Universe movie to open at No. 1 domestically. That stat was thrown around a lot, and it made me wonder how difficult the feat was. It’s pretty tough!
Jennifer Homans Was Wrong: Ballet’s Not Dying, It’s Being Rejuvenated – And Here’s Why
“It’s an exciting time for the art form, with new works and artists emerging: there is plenty to look forward to. It’s very different to the sense of gloom I remember when I started watching in the Nineties.” Zoë Anderson has a theory about why ballet was in a funk 20 years ago (like so much else in the world, it’s about the ’60s) and why things seem so much more promising today.
World’s Largest Streaming Video Market Has Gone Mad For Korean TV
“China’s obsession with a South Korean television show about a 400-year-old Harvard-educated alien who falls in love with an arrogant actress reached such a frenzy last year that online streaming companies here began racing to snap up licensing rights for other South Korean television programs, inflating their prices almost tenfold.”
Theodore Bikel, Actor, Singer, And Social Activist, Dead At 91
“In a protean acting career, he played King Lear and other Shakespearean roles and appeared in countless television shows, from The Twilight Zone to Gunsmoke to Dynasty” – to say nothing of giving more than 2,000 performances as Tevye and creating the role of Captain von Trapp. “[He] could speak nine languages and sing in 21 … [and] helped found the Newport Folk Festival in Rhode Island.”
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A Museum Innovation With Legs – And Twists
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Garrison Keillor: This Time I Mean It – I’m Retiring
In an interview Monday with The Associated Press, Keillor said he plans to step down as host after next season, following four decades of entertaining listeners with his baritone voice and folksy comedy sketches about Lake Wobegon, his mythical Minnesota hometown “where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.”