Philosophy professor Neal Tognazzini: “I think there’s something distinctively valuable about allowing many aspects of your life — even the very fact of your life — to recede into the background, into a unconscious mental box we might label ‘presuppositions.’ I would go so far as to say that these presuppositions are what enable you to live a life at all.”
Tag: 08.25.18
Artists Are Being Pressured To Cancel Shows In Israel
Social media campaigns and protests are putting pressure on artists to cancel shows in Israel over the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Amazon Tries A Move Into Live Sports Broadcasting
“Amazon has pulled out all the stops to make its $40m (£34m) bet on the UK rights to the US Open – setting up a studio at Flushing Meadows and drafting in former players including Jim Courier, Greg Rusedski, Annabel Croft and Mark Petchey, as the company looks to prove it can match traditional broadcasters and become a credible home for live sport.”
Ontario Government Rescinds Sistema Music Education Funding
“The day the election was called, the previous minister committed funding to this organization without going through the proper approval process. Unfortunately, Sistema does not meet the criteria for this grant and is not eligible for funding. It is unfortunate that the Liberals put Sistema in this position.”
Wayne Shorter At 85
In honor of the day, Doug Ramsey offers some Shorter compositions from widely spaced periods of his career.
Brussels Bureaucrats Block Bruegel Museum
“Bruegel House, a dedicated museum to his life and work, was due to have opened in October 2019, the centrepiece of the 450th anniversary of his death. But a strict financial rule to guard against over-spending has led to the project being put on hold, despite no money being required from Belgium’s federal government.”
Lindsay Kemp, 80, Groundbreaking Dancer-Choreographer-Mime-Performance Artist
While he’s most famous for having taught the singers Kate Bush and David Bowie (He helped invent and coached Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust persona), Kemp founded his own contemporary dance company in the 1960s and created flamboyant, pioneering stage productions that combined – and ignored any boundaries between – dance, mime, musical and spoken-word theatre.
There’s A Place Where Viennese Operetta Can Still Seem Magical
“It’s the lederhosen that grabs you first. Two gents were walking down the street ahead of us in full Alpine rig … Among the flowerbeds and fountains that surround the main theatre of the Bad Ischl Lehar Festival a posse of young women crossed our path, all wearing embroidered dirndls and laughing. By the time we took our seats in the auditorium, we were grappling with a deeply un-British notion: that none of this was ironic. We weren’t at Glyndebourne any more.”