“Julie Kent, the star ballerina who retired as a principal dancer with American Ballet Theater in June, is taking on several new roles with the company, including as the artistic director of its summer intensive programs for young dancers.”
Tag: 09.02.15
Where Did Soviet Architects Get To Have Fun With Their Designs? Bus Stops
“Just as 18th-century English follies were often try-outs for new architectural styles, some of these roadside pavilions may have been experiments for bigger things. As such, they were opportunities for local sculptors, architects and builders to flex their creative muscles – and boy did they let rip.”
Top Posts From AJBlogs 09.02.15
By The Numbers, Good Museum News in Virginia
AJBlog: Real Clear Arts Published 2015-09-02
Politics and music
AJBlog: Infinite Curves Published 2015-09-02
Hamilton‘s Universal Appeal: A Writer’s Writer, Immigrant’s Immigrant (and a Christie’s Market Tie-In)
AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2015-09-02
I’m Weird
AJBlog: PostClassic Published 2015-09-02
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The Composer Behind That Difficult Opera (And Why He’s Difficult To Know)
“At its best a new production of a well-known opera will provide some marvelous insight into what the work should mean to us. The trouble is, we can’t know in advance how much sense the production is going to make and therefore don’t know how much effort we should put into deciphering what is going on onstage.”
Edinburgh Festivals Post (Yet Another) Record Year At The Box Office
“The fringe broke the 2 million barrier for the second year in a row, recording a rise of 5.24% on last year’s figures to 2,298,080, on an increase in productions of 3.79% to 3,314. The Edinburgh International Festival posted ticket sales valued at a record £3.8 million. The number of tickets issued passed 163,500, the highest since 2003.”
The TV Ratings Hit Of Summer 2015? Why Donald Trump, Of Course
“Based on that performance, the Sept. 16 GOP debate with Trump and his competitors at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Library in Simi Valley is expected to be the most watched event ever on CNN. And the network is cashing in on the anticipation.”
Los Angeles Philharmonic Ups Its Innovation Cred Hiring Opera Director Yuval Sharon
“The L.A. Philharmonic is expected to announced on Wednesday that Sharon will be named as the orchestra’s artist-collaborator, a newly created post that will involve curating projects for the orchestra, with the assistance of the Industry. The projects are expected to embrace multiple artistic genres and will take place at Walt Disney Concert Hall as well as other venues around L.A.”
Blondell Cummings, Who Made Dance From Floor-Scrubbing And Shirt-Folding, Dead At 70
“[Her] work, which fused dance, theater, mime, spoken word and video into small quasi-narrative worlds, … mined quotidian experiences like washing, cooking and building to yield works celebrated for their rich characterizations and dramatic momentum.”
The 101 Greatest Plays (Chosen By The Guardian’s Theatre Critic)
Michael Billington’s list, though it limits itself to the western tradition, runs all the way back to Aeschylus (The Persians) and right up to last season (King Charles III). Of course, there’s lots to argue over.
New Brian Friel Festival Lights Up Ireland – On Both Sides Of The Border
The Lughnasa International Friel Festival – created and directed (on a tiny budget) by Seán Doran, who also founded the Happy Days Festival focused on Beckett – is the first large-scale arts event to be shared between Northern Ireland and the Republic.