“During the performance, skies cleared completely. On the return afterward, hundreds of dancegoers took the same softly lighted river path as I did back to town; we could look up through the pines to thousands of stars, unusually large. No urban opera house can match such accompanying marvels.”
Tag: 08.03.14
If You Owned A Strad, You’d Totally Loan It To A Gifted Teenager, Right?
“To me, the Strad is not just a violin, but is an extension of myself, allowing me to communicate all my musical ideas.”
The Liberal Arts Desperately Need A Defense – And Are Worth Defending
“If left to our own devices we academics might become more and more out of touch with what the society really needs. That tradition of criticizing elitists, criticizing the kind of snobbery that often goes with elite education, that’s I think a very healthy American tradition for good, democratic reasons.”
Canada Honors WWI Dead With A Vivid, Mobile Memorial
“From 2014 to 2018, the soldiers’ names will be projected on public buildings and in schools. Each name will be shown for 25 seconds in participating countries, online and on mobile devices.”
Diana Gibson, A Mercurial Impresario Of L.A.’s Theatre World, Dies At 69
“Convinced that most cultural output was dross, Gibson was on a mission to battle mediocrity. ‘She used to say, “We’re on the front lines,”‘ the playwright recalled. ‘But she put terror in almost everyone who met her.'”
Top AJBlogs Posts From 08.03.14
Enter, Pursued by History
AJBlog: Dancebeat | Published 2014-08-03
Most scurrilous, unfunny New Yorker “humor” re jazz
AJBlog: Jazz Beyond Jazz | Published 2014-08-02
Silicon Valley’s New Robber Barons
AJBlog: CultureCrash | Published 2014-08-01
Marvel President: We Should *Totally* Make A Female-Led Superhero Movie! Sometime! In The, Like, Future!
“Despite his firm belief that Marvel Studios, which he runs, should make a female-led action movie, it has no public plans to do so in the future. (And Marvel has release dates planned through 2017.)”
What’s Life Like For The Most Famous Art Forger Ever?
“The only way I had of making money inside was doing prison portraits; I charged two phone cards for one pencil drawing, which was good money.”
The L.A. Phil’s Sober, Dancing Cellist
“The cello and baseball were my two loves. I was a catcher,” said L.A. Phil principal cellist Robert deMaine. But when he was a teen, he “quit the cello for a number of months, preferring ‘to grow my hair long and play in a band.'”
Jane Austen Is A Big Business Now, But What Were Her Own Business Ideals?
“Despite her family’s best efforts to represent her as a talented amateur after her death, the fact was that she was up at her desk as early as Marianne, writing and revising early in the morning.”