“There’s a live Bob Marley concert and Eugene Ormandy conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra, John Coltrane recordings and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, part of a collection that for years the DJs wouldn’t discuss for fear that the bosses would order them to destroy them or ship the collection off the island, like other radio stations in the Defense Department broadcasting system.”
Tag: 08.03.15
After A Year On The Job, Andris Nelsons Extends With Boston Symphony To (At Least) 2022
“On Monday, the orchestra announced it has extended its contract with Nelsons through the 2021-2022 season. The contract, which had previously run until 2019, also includes an evergreen provision allowing Nelsons and the orchestra to add additional years.”
An Open Letter From A Copy Editor To Hollywood Title-Makers
When you’re giving a movie its title – say, Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation, or The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 2, or Crazy, Stupid, Love. – punctuation is not your friend.
Top Posts From AJBlogs 08.03.15
Whether Quiet or Rowdy, It’s All About Making Meaning
AJBlog: We The Audience Published 2015-08-03
So Sue Me
AJBlog: PostClassic Published 2015-08-03
Guinga And Maria João In Ystad
AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2015-08-03
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There Are Plenty Of Reasons I Don’t Need The Theatre. And One Reason I Do That Trumps Them All
“I am a reporter on The One Show on BBC One, where we get audiences of up to six million. At Edinburgh, the space I play seats 350 people. I am 67, I have six grandchildren, I have been an MP and a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury, I have books currently in print in 24 countries around the world; I don’t need this. But I’m doing it – for four weeks, with just one day off. Why? Because the Edinburgh Fringe changed my life.”
A New National Center For Choreography (But You Can’t See It)
“The importance of the center – a project spearheaded by DanceCleveland and funded by a five-year, $5 million pledge from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation – is difficult to convey, given that it’s essentially an abstraction. Even when it’s fully up and running, the center, a standalone nonprofit, will basically amount to a network, a collection of diverse regional resources for choreographers to access as they conceive and create new dance.”
Cleveland Orchestra Picks A New Executive Director
“Andre Gremillet comes to Northeast Ohio by way of Australia, where he has served as managing director of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra since November 2012. The distance notwithstanding, the administrator brings from there experience doing much of what the Cleveland Orchestra is still in the midst of doing here: connecting more deeply with its hometown while simultaneously raising its profile worldwide.”
A Battle To Buy Up All The Music Festivals
“AEG and Live Nation [are] trying to buy every festival out there that can be bought. What you’re seeing now is a race to control the content of festivals. The competition shows how much the $6 billion North American concert industry—long focused on arenas, amphitheaters, and stadiums—is tilting toward music festivals, which offer dozens of artists, specialty foods and other amenities.”
Stage Fright – What Exactly Is It, And What’s Behind It?
“Stage fright has been aptly described as ‘self-poisoning by adrenaline'” – the fight-or-flight response. “But what Cro-Magnon man needed upon finding a bear in his cave is not what a modern person needs in order to play King Lear. Without the release of abrupt action, the hyperactivation becomes, basically, a panic attack.”