“A critical first step is to acknowledge that twerking is a normal part of life and that there is nothing shameful in their questions. They’re parents, after all, and this is the sort of thing they hear about on NPR, and, well, they’re curious.”
Tag: 09.01.13
How Arthur Pita Turned Edward Watson Into A Bug
“A man wakes up one morning to find himself turned into a giant insect. It’s the famous, improbable opening of Kafka’s novella The Metamorphosis, and it popped into the choreographer Arthur Pita’s head one day when he was thinking about working with the Royal Ballet principal dancer Edward Watson.”
Could YouTube Bankrupt Hollywood?
“YouTube-centric CEOs and digital leaders peered into the crystal ball of the immediate future at this year’s unofficial YouTubers’ conference VidCon in Anaheim, California and what they saw–or think they saw–involved peril and even bankruptcy.”
After A Difficult Year, The St. Paul Chamber Orchestra Gets Back To Work
“To be borne back into the SPCO’s recent past would be to revisit quarreling and unhappiness — the stuff that results from a bitter, protracted labor dispute. As the season opens this week with Edo de Waart conducting Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, the ensemble hopes to move past the past and embrace the future.”
A New Period Instrument Movement
“In the United States, a growing number of musicians are drawn to the heightened expressive potential of period instruments.”
Nigel Kennedy Talks About Conductors
“I think conductors are completely over-rated anyway, because if you love music, why not play it? Why wave around and get off on some ego shit? I don’t think the audience give a shit about the conductor. Not unless they’ve been pumped full of propaganda from classical music writing or something.”
Architect Renzo Piano Named Senator For Life In Italy
the 75-year-old was among four distinguished Italians whose achievements in the cultural and scientific fields would allow them to contribute to the nation’s parliament “in absolute independence of any party political considerations”.
Opera Director Lofti Mansouri, 84
“In 1983, as the head of the Canadian Opera Company in Toronto, he introduced supertitles – projected translations, modeled on the subtitles found in foreign films. These projections quickly became a standard feature of operatic performance throughout the English-speaking world.”
Could The Curse Finally Be Lifting From Donald Margulies’s Holocaust Play?
Despite praise from everyone from literary managers to the New York Times and Village Voice, Margulies’s The Model Apartment suffered from years of bad luck, bad timing, and (occasionally) bad faith. Maybe it’s because, as the playwright puts it, “This isn’t your bubbe‘s Holocaust play.”