“Railway tunnels in Bristol that date back 175 years are to be transformed into a new performance space. The underground venue, which will be called the Lo-co Klub, is located in the arches beneath Bristol’s Temple Meads station, built by Isambard Kingdom Brunel in the 1840s.”
Tag: 08.10.15
What Do We Mean When We Ask What Something Is Like?
Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo talk with lexicographer Anne Seaton about the strange history of this strange expression. (podcast)
Top Posts From AJBlogs 08.10.15
Ai Weiwei Watch: International Travel Plans, Sympathy for His Tormentors
AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2015-08-10
The Reign of the Director
AJBlog: OperaSleuth Published 2015-08-10
Just because: Miles Davis improvises a film score
AJBlog: About Last Night Published 2015-08-10
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What If You Don’t Want Your New Musical Theatre Singers To Sound Like Idina Menzel?
“Vocal training for classical music and vocal training for musical theater need different foci, to an extent. Each requires meticulous attention to a separate set of performance traditions.”
When Romance Goes Massively Wrong
“A romantic novel in which a ‘blonde and blue-eyed Jewess’ falls in love with an SS-Kommandant in Theresienstadt concentration camp has caused outrage and offence in the romance writing community after it was shortlisted for two top awards.”
Shakespeare’s Pipes Test Positive For Cannabis (Seriously)
“The pipes from Shakespeare’s garden might have been used to smoke pot, but they tested negative for cocaine, which was also consumed by some in the playwright’s era. ‘Shakespeare may have been aware of the deleterious effects of cocaine as a strange compound,’ Thackeray writes. ‘Possibly, he preferred cannabis as a weed with mind-stimulating properties.'”
Are The UK’s Hordes Of Closed Nightclubs An Indicator Of The State Of Music And Dance In The Country?
“With the advent of later pub opening hours, the smoking ban, student tuition fees and the squeeze that a lot people are under financially since the recession … I think people are finding different ways and different places to go out.”
Blurred Lines: The Battles Over Free Speech, Hate Speech, And Online Shaming
Kelefa Sanneh: “We live in a world, evidently, where a college-town d.j. who plays a popular song can inspire a Facebook protest that will eventually cost him his gig. But we also live in a world where an undergraduate who protests at her local bar can find herself vilified around the world … And it’s not obvious that the first development should trouble us more than the second.”