“Now 77, well past the age at which most star singers retire, Mr. Domingo has performed nearly 4,000 times in a six-decade career, recorded more than 100 albums, and become a household name as one of the Three Tenors and in appearances on Sesame Street and The Simpsons. And he has continued to add voraciously to his repertory” – as well as to conduct, an endeavor in which his reviews have been mixed.
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Portland Center Stage Names Marissa Wolf Artistic Director
“Marissa Wolf, chosen after an eight-month search, will lead the city’s largest professional theater company in partnership with Cynthia Fuhrman, Portland Center Stage’s managing director. Wolf replaces Chris Coleman, who stepped down as artistic director this spring after 17 years to take a similar position in Denver.”
What Dancers Can Sense From The Audience
There’s a dynamic relationship between live performers and the audience. Just as dancers, actors and musicians amuse, provoke or otherwise move their public, the public moves them. Muttering in the seats can be heard onstage. So can the odd argument and ringtones. The sounds and behaviors of spectators can affect dancers’ psychology and even performance quality. They’re energized by cheers, of course, and demoralized when they’re expecting applause or laughter and there’s only silence. But they pick up on far more.
I Run From You: German Train Station To Play Schoenberg To Drive Out Drug Dealers
Deutsche Bahn — Germany’s national train operator — has come up with a confrontational approach. This autumn, it will try piping “atonal music” into a Berlin railway station, a spokesman confirmed Wednesday in an emailed statement. It is an attempt to make the station less comfortable for drug users. In explaining the move, an official told the publication Deutsche Welle that few people find such music beautiful, and that many perceive it as something to run away from.
NY Public Library Lets You Read Books On Instagram
The first novel published to the social media service is Lewis Carroll’s 1865 novel, Alice in Wonderland. The surreal Wonderland-inspired graphics were designed by conceptual illustrator Magoz. The NYPL says they had hoped to mimic the feel and layout of classic books on the screen, with the innovative and engaging element of artistic design on select “pages.”
Yale’s Intriguing “Leonardo” Examination Gets a Grade of “Incomplete”: Few Leonardos, Many Photos
Since another Leonardo “discovery” has been much in the news of late (including this recent twist, questioning its authorship), the Yale Art Gallery’s summer exhibition, Leonardo: Discoveries from Verrocchio’s Studio, has more topicality than the museum’s chief curator Laurence Kanter might have imagined when he began planning it.
Recent Listening In Brief
Cécile McLorin Salvant, Dreams And Daggers (Mack Avenue)
The two-CD collection has 23 songs, five of which have original lyrics by the singer. The other pieces are standards, some seldom heard, by Kurt Weil, Langston Hughes, Irving Berlin, Julie Styne, Bob Dorough, Noel Coward and Frank Loesser.
Singer Claims Two Classical Music Stars Raped Him
Samuel Schultz, then a 23-year-old graduate student at Rice University, says he was frightened of repercussions and hid the alleged event for years. Emboldened by both the #MeToo movement and upon learning that David Daniels had made tenure at the University of Michigan — where he’d be in close personal contact with young aspiring singers — Schultz filed a complaint with the U-M Police Department’s special victims unit in July.
‘Ceci N’est Pas Une Rue’: Here’s What Happens When You Let Brussels Residents Name Streets
The area around a former freight train depot in the Belgian capital is being redeveloped into a neighborhood called the Tour & Taxis district, and officials decided to let the public – in René Magritte’s hometown – suggest names for the thoroughfares. So there will be Frites Street, Endive Street, Speculoos Street, Kriek Street (for the cherry beer), and (yes, really) Ceci n’est pas une rue (This Is Not A Street).
Actress Barbara Harris, Co-Founder Of Second City, Dead At 83
“[She was] one of the last surviving members of the founding generation of Chicago-style improvisers and a shy, eccentric, brilliant, publicity-averse performer who preferred rehearsing to working in front of an audience, but who nonetheless pursued a successful Broadway and movie acting career.”