The 25,000-person K-pop concert featured politicians and musicians. The kids hope the music drifted the five miles to the DMZ, and beyond: “If enjoying K-pop right near the border with the aggressive North Korea is not freedom, what is? … I hope North Korea, too, understands how much happiness freedom can bring and chooses a path toward peace.”
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Taking Photos Isn’t A Way To Distance Yourself But A Way To Focus More Intently On What You’re Photographing
But, science says, it’s only good if you take the photos “for the right reasons.” That’s because “when you’re searching the visual field and trying to decide what to photograph, that volitional process of trying to capture a moment actually draws you into experiences.”
Horror Movies Have A Too Much Information Problem
Basically, we shouldn’t understand the backstory behind evil forces, or we lose our sense of fear. “When filmmakers, writers and producers give us the tools to comprehend a monster, the monster becomes perceptible, and, in becoming perceptible, it becomes considerably less, well, monstrous.”
Can Legislation Return Film-Scoring Jobs To Los Angeles Musicians?
The numbers are grim – “According to International Recording Musicians Association president Marc Sazer, L.A. musicians – who once routinely scored nearly all American movies – have lost substantial ground to London and other European venues. In 2003, nearly 60 percent of feature films were scored by American Federation of Musicians members; by 2015, that number was down to 30 percent” – so a tax credit may soon be in the offing.
Three Detroit Museums Band Together To Address The Riots That Dramatically Changed The City
Two museums whose patronage is supermajority white in a city that’s 80 percent African American combine with a museum that has more appeal to the city’s Black residents in a bid to get Millennials interested in what did happen – and what can happen again. One curator said, “This occurred, and pay attention, because it can happen again.”
When The Music Director Writes Things On Scores, The Orchestra’s Music Librarian Must Translate For Everyone Else
At least with the Philadelphia Orchestra and Yannick Nezet-Seguin, who prefers editions called urtexts (with the composers’ original phrases, dynamics, and notes), says librarian Robert Grossman. “Although the Philadelphia owns more than 5,000 scores and their instrumental parts in the public domain and has another 5,000 scores for pieces written since 1926 whose parts must be rented, this means Grossman is starting with a clean slate when working with the urtext editions.”
Why The Statues Celebrating The Confederacy Need To Come Down
Statues have symbolic power. “The statues in public squares, the names on street signs, the generals honored with military bases — these are the ways in which we, as a society, tell each other what we value, and build the common heritage around which we construct a nation.”
The Berkshire Museum Defends Its Planned But Controversial Art Sale
Facing massive blowback, including from Norman Rockwell’s sons, “Berkshire Museum officials held their ground, citing decades of financial losses that, in recent years, amounted to million-dollar annual budget shortfalls on a yearly budget of $2.4 million. The institution had struggled with deficits for 30 years, they said, and needed to fundamentally reinvent itself — or face closure within eight years.”
Some Musicians In Santa Monica Are Not Pleased With A Right-Wing Radio Host Guest Conductor
Dennis Prager will conduct Haydn’s Symphony No. 51 this week at a Santa Monica Symphony Orchestra fundraiser. “Prager’s day job, however, has members of the orchestra up in arms — and laying down their instruments. He is a conservative talk show host who often targets multiculturalism, Muslims and LGBTQ people.”
Netflix Poaches Grey’s Anatomy & Scandal’s Shonda Rhimes From ABC
Why is this news? Because Rhimes is one of the biggest TV talents around – and also, Netflix locking her down to develop shows for the streaming service “is the latest twist in a battle between Disney and Netflix for entertainment-industry supremacy.”