“It’s not strategy, it’s not networking. It’s not trying to get someone’s card, asking people out for coffee, being at the cocktail party, doing the panels. It’s joy. You have to find joy in the work.”
Tag: 08.25.16
A Relationship Between Your Politics And Your Personality?
“For many political psychologists, it seems abundantly clear that traits and politics go together. There’s evidence that many aspects of personality develop quite early in life and have a genetic component, but we don’t become actively political until we are older. So it’s sensible to assume that the one might have some bearing on the other. But most of the work on the subject in the past decades has consisted merely of scientists conducting surveys and observing correlations.”
German People’s Theatre Community Protests Appointment Of Tate Modern’s Director Chris Dercon
In June, 90 staff members and 80 freelancers of the Volksbühne sent one to the Berlin House of Representatives expressing deep concern that Dercon will trade long-established artistic standards for “a globally extended consensus culture with uniform presentation and sales patterns.” Volksbühne means “People’s Stage” and was established in 1914 as a working-class theater committed to the experimental.
Critical Disconnect – The “Best Movies Of The 2000’s” List Shows Gulf Between Critics And Audiences
“Critics can champion as many ferociously innovative films as they like, but if the audiences who actually feed the coffers of studios continue to ignore their recommendations, then the industry will simply keep delivering substandard, heavily franchised fare.”
Why Bollywood Is The Heart Of A Nation
“There is something about a big, popular art form that dramatizes a society’s deepest tensions that I find desperately moving. In the West, this is the kind of heavy lifting that was once the preserve of the novel — think of Dickens and Balzac. But in India, Bollywood alone deals with our society’s inner tension, its fault lines and frictions.”
Director Of ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ Sues Weinstein Brothers For Fraud
“[David Frankel is] alleging fraud and negligent representation as well as breach of contract over the size and scope of the October 2014 release in North America” of his film One Chance, “which stars James Corden as Paul Potts, a real-life shop assistant and amateur opera singer who won Britain’s Got Talent in 2007.”
Remember The ‘1812 Overture’? What Happened To The Whole ‘Light Classical’ Repertoire?
“What is disappearing, some say, are the light classics that once were staples of mainstream classical concerts that, around the middle of the last century, migrated to pops” and which pops orchestras have now abandoned in favor of classic rock and the like. Says conductor John Mauceri, “If you’re going to do a Mahler symphony as the centerpiece of a concert, you don’t have any room for von Suppé or Offenbach.”
Rudy Van Gelder, Dean Of Jazz Recording Engineers, Dead At 91
“[He was] perhaps the most influential recording engineer in the jazz genre, who brought to vivid life the sounds of such legendary artists as Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Herbie Hancock and Freddie Hubbard,” and was responsible for many of the Blue Note label’s most important discs.
The Best New Public Library Of 2016?
That’s what the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions decided, and Slate design writer Kristin Hohenadel agrees. It’s in a seemingly unlikely spot: the working port area of Denmark’s second city.
Top Posts From AJBlogs 08.25.16
Collaborators
Artistic collaboration is finally getting the respect it deserves. No longer looked down on as Art by Committee Meeting, interdisciplinary work is being celebrated for its ability to bring multiple voices into a single event, to create a whole greater than the sum of its parts. … read more
AJBlog: Infinite Curves Published 2016-08-25
Rudy Van Gelder, 1924-2016
Rudy Van Gelder, who recorded thousands of albums by musicians including some of the most important in jazz, died today at 91. As a young man, Van Gelder began recording in … read more
AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2016-08-25
Weekend Listening Tip: Two Herman Drummers & Friends
Jim Wilke alerts us that his Jazz Northwest broadcast this weekend features two drummers who at different times drove Woody Herman’s Herd. Jeff Hamilton and Joe LaBarbera will co-lead an all-star big band that includes … read more
AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2016-08-26
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