“The DSO is launching a massive restructuring to preserve the century-old institution’s long-term health. It involves a scaled-down 2012-2013 season, a new board chair, a new general manager and a leaner board of directors and administrative team.”
Tag: 08.09.12
Disney Stock Price Rises To All-Time High
“Disney’s stock price of $50.49 left it with a $90.24 billion market capitalization Wednesday, according to Yahoo Finance, just below that of Comcast, which remained the most valuable of the seven major media conglomerates.”
Shades Of Grey – The Bestselling Book Of All Time? (Depends On How You Count)
“Combined UK sales for the trilogy are in excess of 12m copies, with rights to the book sold around the world and published in languages including Albanian, Chinese, Russian, Serbian and Vietnamese. But is it right?”
How Politics Is Staging A Coup At Alabama Public Television
“We feel like we’re victims of a hostile takeover,” an Alabama Public Television employee who helped blow the whistle on the commissioners’ plan told Salon. “This is going to set a national precedent. Everyone is gunning for public television; this is how they’re going to do it.”
A Plan To Turn Kansas City Pro Football Home Into Art Showcase
“This process will have to put very clearly the objectives so that it showcases the best of the artists in the region. I think it should be something that engages the local community and also artists that might have been from here and then gone on to international recognition.”
JS Bach’s Choir Marks Its 800th Birthday
The Thomanerchor had already clocked up 475 years, when Johann Sebastian Bach joined it way back in 1723 – and it is still going strong today.
How NASA Is Reinventing Itself Into A Media Company
“Born in 1958 at the height of the Cold War, NASA is in the midst of transforming itself into the very model of a 21st-century media company that creates and distributes its own content, in large part by allowing its employees to express themselves at will.”
The Olympics And A National Culture Of Winning (Or Not)
“What probably most people forget is that 77 of the world’s countries or territories have never won a single medal. If they weren’t for the most part poor, one might consider them the lucky ones–free from the arms race that has consumed the would-be champions.”
Have We Seen The Last Of Art Critics Like Robert Hughes?
“His elitist aesthetics and patrician diction supported a populist ethos that celebrated excellence in carpentry and art-making alike, and hoped to play down the role of money in ruling everything, a shaky position to maintain at any time and maybe impossible to duplicate by anyone brave enough to emulate his example.”
Oxford American Editors Fired Over Sexual Harassment Charges
Marc Smirnoff, who founded the literary journal in 1992 and kept it going through more than one financial crisis, and his girlfriend, managing editor Carol Ann Fitzgerald, were dismissed after a board investigation “produced detailed accounts of a workplace rife with sexual harassment.” Smirnoff furiously denies the accusations, even as he confirms some of the accusers’ accounts.