“Long before anyone had ever heard of audiobooks, Caedmon Records made a name for itself recording authors reading aloud from their work. Many Americans first heard the voices of their favorite writers through the Caedmon Literary Series, launched in the 1950s.”
Tag: 08.19.13
Alexei Ratmansky On His Time Leading The Bolshoi Ballet
“The worst thing is the snobbery of this place, that ‘we are the best because we are the Bolshoi'”. That I hate. And maybe I did something intentionally or unintentionally to challenge this, by inviting guest artists, or giving them material that they had to struggle to work on, to discover their weak sides.” A look back at an interview from 2008.
Beatles Jukebox Musical Flops On Broadway
“Let It Be, a concert show in which musicians dressed as the Beatles trace the group’s history and recreate its top songs, has been a hit in London since it opened at the end of 2012. But its New York producers announced on Monday that instead of running through Dec. 29, as planned, the show would close on Sept. 1.”
Poet John Hollander, 83
“Mr. Hollander’s wit, inventiveness and intellectual range drew comparisons to Ben Jonson and 17th-century Metaphysical poets like John Donne.”
Melbourne Symphony Boss Says Board Members Should Give More Money (Board Is Not Pleased)
“Melbourne Symphony Orchestra managing director Andre Gremillet has ruffled feathers on the orchestra’s board by advising the 10 directors they will be expected to dig deeper philanthropically, but he has stopped short of saying how much he expects them to give.”
More Is More: Why The “Paradox Of Choice” Might Be A Myth
“Sometimes, they concluded, too many options repel us. The researchers called it ‘the paradox of choice.’ You might call it ‘feeling overwhelmed by options.’ But some economists are calling it something else: ‘complete hogwash’.”
It’s 2013 And There’s A Rich Country That Still Has Actual Witch Hunts
“The sorceress was naked. The sight of her bare flesh startled the prudish officers of Saudi Arabia’s infamous religious police, the Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice (CPVPV), which had barged into her room in what was supposed to be a routine raid of a magical hideout.”
Rio Tries To Seduce Woody Allen
“Apparently Rio de Janeiro is not satisfied with being chosen as the site of the 2016 Summer Olympics and the host of the championship game of next year’s World Cup of soccer. Now Brazil’s most effervescent city also wants Woody Allen to make a movie there.”
David Howard, A Remarkable Teacher Of Dancers, Dies At 76
“Mr. Howard’s pedagogy, unorthodox in its day, entailed a kinesthetic approach, in which dancers were taught to rely less on external feedback from the mirror and more on the minute internal signals that telegraph the position of the head, limbs and torso in space.”
Is Digital Technology Being Wasted On Live Theatre?
“Theatremakers may be employing digital technology that creates breath-taking effects, but most of the shows are just not using the technology in particularly interesting ways.”