“I have loved my job, but critics shouldn’t go on too long. I feel I’ve had my say and it’s time to stop and put my feet up,” said the 59-year-old journalist on his decision to take early retirement after 25 years with the London-based paper.”
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Another Milestone For Maestras: Susanna Mälkki Named Chief Conductor Of Helsinki Philharmonic
The 45-year-old Finn, until last year music director of Ensemble InterContemporain in Paris and recently appointed principal guest conductor of Lisbon’s Gulbenkia Orchestra and active throughout Europe and North America as a guest conductor, takes over from John Storgårds in Helsinki at the start of 2016.
Fabio Luisi To Lead Danish National Symphony Orchestra
“The music director of the Zurich Opera and principal conductor of the Metropolitan Opera has a new gig … Mr. Luisi, 55, signed a three-year contract with the [DNSO] from 2017 through 2020, his representatives said, and plans to step up his appearances with the orchestra even before that.”
Rock Festival In L.A.’s Grand Park Was A Grand Experiment In Several Ways
“The decision to close the park for a for-profit event will be redeemed only if the money Live Nation paid the county to rent it out makes it a better place to visit, over the long term, for the public. Luckily, even as concertgoers were tramping across Grand Park’s lawns and through its flower beds, they were also helping demonstrate pretty clearly where its design might be tweaked and improved. They made up a huge and unwitting landscape-architecture focus group.”
Lars Von Trier Returning To TV
“The Danish director Lars von Trier is planning to make his first televisions series in two decades, a producer for the project recently announced. The English-language series will be titled The House That Jack Built.”
“The Opera Olympics”, Operalia, Reveals Its 2014 Winners
Tenor Mario Chang and soprano Rachel Willis-Sørensen each won three medals prizes, including the first-place awards for male and female singer. “In a rare occurrence for the competition, the third-place prizes were awarded to four singers whom the judges said received identical scores.”
Paris Is Forgetting Ernest Hemingway
“American writer Ernest Hemingway had close links with Paris. He first lived there in 1920 and played a marginal, much-mythologised, role in the 1944 liberation of the city. But now, 70 years on, memories of the author are starting to fade.”
Top Posts From AJBlogs 09.01.14
Is This A “New” Piero della Franscesca?
AJBlog: Real Clear Arts | Published 2014-09-02
How should we rank the employment prospects of cities?
AJBlog: For What it’s Worth | Published 2014-09-02
David Lowery: The Internet is a Cargo Cult
AJBlog: CultureCrash | Published 2014-09-01
New, Improved Tuning Examples
AJBlog: PostClassic | Published 2014-09-01
Arts Democracy Now!
AJBlog: We The Audience | Published 2014-09-01
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How A Drag Queen Became A Major Star Of Mexican Wrestling
“Being gay is a gift from God,” says Saúl Armendáriz, though that was hardly his experience as an abused and bullied youngster in El Paso and Ciudad Juárez.But he was quick and athletic and hardworking and had a sense of showmanship. Today, he’s Cassandro, one of lucha libre‘s biggest stars, kicking macho ass from Mexico City to L.A. to Tokyo.
How A Latin Scholar Became A Public Intellectual, TV Star And (Actual) Poster Girl
Once, Mary Beard was just an unusually prolific Oxbridge don. Now she’s a popular historian with multiple television sows to her credit, something of a heroine to middle-aged and older women (and more than a few of their daughters), and a skilled slayer of Internet trolls. (Sometimes she even reforms them.)