“Classes are already running at Dance Base in Edinburgh and Scottish Ballet in Glasgow and a £295,000 grant from the Paul Hamlyn Foundation will help the programme expand to Greenock, Kilmarnock, Dundee, Aberdeen and Inverness. Research has shown that dance can help people with the degenerative disease physically, mentally and socially.”
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Edinburgh International Festival Ticket Sales Down; Book Festival Sales Up
“[The EIF] reported ticket sales of £3.8m, down from the £4.3m reported this time last year, due, it said, to a smaller programme, notably in the opera section. … The Edinburgh International Book Festival reported a rise in ‘footfall’ in its Charlotte Square site, and an 8% rise in book sales.”
Inge Borkh, Dramatic Soprano, Dead At 101
“A visceral stage animal, her legendary performances as Salome and Elektra thrilled audiences in the 1950s and 60s, and while for some she was eclipsed by the rise of Birgit Nilsson, many would consider her dramatic interpretations to have been second to none.”
Jerusalem Symphony’s South American Tour Dogged By Protests
Demonstrators allied with the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement have appeared outside the orchestra’s concerts in Argentina, Brazil, and Peru; in the Chilean capital, Santiago, a poster was interpreted showing conductor Yeruham Scharovsky spattered with blood, which was interpreted as a possible death threat.
The Fine Lines Of Translation (What Did That Mean?)
Good translators approach their work in all sorts of different ways. They have egos as big as successful people in any other arena, but the ones I respect are keenly aware of the difference between creativity and appropriation. They might see their work as akin to a curator’s, a librarian’s or a publisher’s. To such people works of art are entrusted — and part of that trust is that they do not alter the objects in their care with inappropriate intrusions of their own personality. There is no little art in mounting the successful museum show, but one would be rightly appalled to find the curator touching up the Rembrandts.