“London, long a choral capital, is setting the tone with law firms, banks, accountancy firms, tech firms, even cosmetics giant L’Oréal now featuring company-supported choirs. A number have set up Google-style music rooms, and some even offer music lessons during the workday.”
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Generous Cincinnati Funder Shuts Its Doors After An Amazing Run
The Corbett Foundation – which gave more than $70 million to arts and education in the region over the last 60 years – is shutting its doors, effective immediately.
Paavo Järvi Won’t Renew Contract With Orchestre De Paris
The conductor announced on his Facebook page that, “with a heavy heart”, he has decided to step down from the orchestra’s music directorship after the 2015-16 season. He gave no reason other than his desire to devote time to his new post at Tokyo’s NHK Symphony (beginning in fall 2015) as well as his ongoing work with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen. (in French)
Robert Hass Wins $100,000 Poetry Prize
The UC-Berkeley professor and former MacArthur Fellow, “who served as poet laureate of the United States in the mid-1990s, and won a National Book Award in 2007 and a Pulitzer Prize in 2008, has now also won the Wallace Stevens Award, a $100,000 cash stipend given by the Academy of American Poets, an organization founded in 1934 to foster an appreciation for American poetry.”
Sam Hunter, 91, Curator, Art Critic, Founder of Rose Museum
“Over six decades, Sam Hunter could usually be found at the center of some of the most exciting times for art in New York and beyond. He was an art historian (an authority on 20th-century art), a museum director, a curator, an art critic and an art adviser to museums, corporations and private collectors” – not to mention author or co-author of some 50 books.
James Conlon To Leave Ravinia Festival After Next Summer
“Increased commitments abroad and at home, where Conlon has served as music director of the Los Angeles Opera since 2006 and music director of the Cincinnati May Festival since 1979, have caused him to weigh his personal and professional priorities, he added.”
Sleep Drunkenness – We’ve All Experienced It, And It Has A Name
“Your alarm goes off on your phone, and instead of turning it off or hitting snooze, you pick it up and stupidly say, ‘Hello?’ You are, to use the technical term, in the throes of sleep drunkenness.”
Top Posts From AJBlogs 08.26.14
Will the Internet Ever Get Less Nasty?
AJBlog: CultureCrash | Published 2014-08-26
New Recommendation: Tom Harrell
AJBlog: RiffTides | Published 2014-08-26
Birthplace of Another Sonata
AJBlog: PostClassic | Published 2014-08-26
Lookback: an imaginary dinner with Satchmo, George Balanchine, and H.L. Mencken
AJBlog: About Last Night | Published 2014-08-26
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So Zaha Hadid Is Suing The Venerable New York Review of Books. Who Wins Here?
Hadid may not withdraw her suit since, Reuters says, she sought damages and the closing of the venerable NYRB. Why did she ever file it? The retraction should not have been hard to get; a suit simply extends the damage to her reputation, which, in spite of Filler’s serious error, was principally done by her own flippancy, abetted by the Internet’s facility in sating our lust for “how the mighty have fallen” stories.
Burning Man Shut Because Of Heavy Rain (This Is The Desert, Right?)
“Organisers said the gate to the temporary desert city would be closed until at least midday on Tuesday as the Black Rock desert playa turned to mud. Police were turning people around at the entrance to avoid stuck vehicles.”