“Conservators in Croatia have completed a ten-year project to remove more than 1,700 years of grime from the courtyard of the palace of the Roman Emperor Diocletian (AD244-311), in the coastal city of Split. ”
Tag: 07.30.13
British Equity Sues Producers Of Delayed Musical For Back Pay
“Equity is launching legal action against the producer of delayed off-West End musical The Golden Voice, in a bid to claim back tens of thousands of pounds in unpaid cast wages.”
Bolshoi’s New Director Warns Ballet Dancers Of “Star Illness”
Vladimir Urin: “To my regret I have to say this star illness does exist and to fight with this I surely must. If you start to think you’re a star it means that your personal culture or your education is not high enough. … You should prove yourself with your daily work.”
What Makes A Melody Beautiful?
Jan Swafford: “For now, I want to offer a small tour of some of the most beautiful and enduring melodies I happen to know, and talk about what makes them that way. Will we thereby find the eternal secret of great melody? Well, no. But it’s one of those questions that can get you somewhere if you don’t take it too seriously.”
New Classical Music And Climate Change
Brett Dean wrote a score about the ferocious 2009 bushfires outside Melbourne. Laurie Anderson and the Kronos Quartet created an evening-length piece about Hurricane Sandy. Mason Bates has what he calls a “water symphony” that “heats up in each movement.” And there’s the entire oeuvre of John Luther Adams.
Borges Vs. “Borges”
“For someone who hated being interviewed, Borges was a prolific and garrulous interviewee (although it was perhaps ‘Borges’ who handled that side of things). And yet, to point this out is to risk missing the substance of what he is saying here, which is not simply that he feels himself at odds with his own public persona but that he feels himself profoundly at odds with how little he is at odds with it. (Such paradoxes are an occupational hazard in any encounter with Borges.)”
France’s New Culture Minister Brings A Different Vision
“We must radically alter this slightly too extravagant image of cultural policy, to awaken deep within all our regions an attachment to culture and the promotion of culture as a lever of economic attractiveness for our country,” she said.
Pasadena Playhouse Lands A Deficit As It Regains An Audience
“The theater company reported a budgetary deficit of $433,900 for the 2011 fiscal year, which is the most recent period for which financial information is available. The season was the playhouse’s first full-fledged schedule since it exited Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2010.”
Strad Stolen From London Train Station Recovered After Three Years
The £1.2 million violin “was snatched after Min-Jin Kym placed it on the floor while she ate a sandwich in a Pret a Manger at Euston station. Now, almost three years later, the 300-year-old instrument has been found and temporarily placed in a secure location in London.”
Man Pleads Guilty In Plot To Defraud Producers Of Broadway Rebecca
“A former Long Island stockbroker … pleaded guilty to federal fraud charges on Monday, admitting that he had conjured up fictitious overseas investors and a phantom loan as part of a sham effort to rescue the financially troubled show.”