“As a woman and a composer, I would like to declare myself alive, represented, served, eager to take risks and downright dogged when it comes to asking for things.”
Tag: 08.07.13
Do Ballet’s Classics Need Reinvention?
“The classics are durable; they grow and adapt over time. But they’re also like love letters, poems or fairytales. Their magic is fragile. If you subject them to careless repetition or inadequate restaging, their power fades and they grow stale.”
Has Our Language Become More Individualistic? Yes – Over Centuries
“The currently discussed rise in individualism is not something recent, but has been going on for centuries as we moved from a predominantly rural, low-tech society to a predominantly urban, high-tech society. This research shows that there has been a two-century-long historical shift toward individualistic psychological functioning adapted to an urban environment.”
Marin Alsop Is The First Woman Conductor To Lead Last Night Of Proms
“I’m very, very proud but I’m also a little bit surprised that we can arrive at the year 2013 and there can still be firsts for women.”
Sell Detroit’s Assets? Exactly The Wrong Way To Go
“Responding to the Detroit debacle by regarding art assets as monetizable for the purpose of paying off creditors is not only wrong, it is strikingly venal and cruel. Detroit’s assets need to be understood in terms of what they can do to revive the city, not on what cash they will produce at auction.”
The Forgotten Medici
“The untidy and frequently farcical decline and fall of the Medici has obscured the achievements of the one member of the clan during this period [late 17th/early 18th century] to have left a lasting legacy: Ferdinando.”
PBS NewsHour Names First All-Female Anchor Team
The appointment of Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff is “another milestone for women on television and in journalism, seven years after Katie Couric became the first female solo anchor of a network nightly newscast. PBS noted in a news release that ‘this will mark the first time a network broadcast has had a female co-anchor team’.”
Why Some People Are So Upset That Dr. Who Will Be A Man (Again)
“[The show’s producers] should keep in mind the way people’s hopes are lifted when they see someone breaking the glass ceiling, even when it’s for something as seemingly trivial as a hero on a science-fiction program.”