Over the past year, Gulf Labor members travelled to Abu Dhabi and India to interview more than 50 workers. Although press reports often focus on living and working conditions on Saadiyat Island, the researchers found that “underpayment is far and away the primary concern” for the workers themselves.
Tag: 08.01.15
Why British Politicians Don’t Go To The Opera (Or Theatre) (Or Dance)
“With the exception of Edward Heath, it is difficult to think of a British prime minister of my lifetime who has had a deep interest in high culture or who even felt any responsibility for associating the office with the arts.”
Forget The Animals – Save The Bassoons!
Using the “endangered species” model employed by the World Wide Fund for Nature, campaigners are highlighting the scarcity of bassoonists and paving the way for the promotion of some other orchestral instruments that are under threat, such as the oboe, French horn, viola, trombone and double bass.
More And More Musicians Demanding Changes In How The Music Industry Works
“The debate has been enabled by social media and reflects changes in many artists’ attitudes toward the online economy over the last 15 years or so — a period that stretches from the rise of Napster and iTunes to online streaming outlets like YouTube, Pandora and Spotify, and has been accompanied by enormous changes in how money flows through the industry.”
LA’s Plans To Redo Its Convention Center Demonstrate The Lack Of Imagination In Convention Centers
“The architecture of the new plan, as if to compensate for the sober event-management calculations around which it is organized, tends toward the frenetic, like the second half of a Pixar movie. Its gestures are oversized and occasionally overwrought, its colors perma-bright.”
NY’s 48th Street Has Long Been Music Row (But Not For Much Longer)
“The last Music Row store, Alex Musical Instruments, is closing in a few months, owner Alex Carozza tells The Post. Carozza’s landlord would have let him stay if he agreed to a rent increase from $4,000 to $12,000 a month. No thanks, says the shopkeep. By the end of the year, Music Row will officially be dead.”
Broadway’s Hottest Show Is Pissing Off Tony Voters
“I can understand the impulse — they’ll be among the top three moneymakers, and that always looks good — but a rule of thumb in this business is, don’t alienate Tony voters,” a veteran press agent says. “You don’t want to look high and mighty.”