Sculptor Anish Kapoor and architect Arata Isozaki are “designing a mobile concert hall to bring music and arts to the region of Japan hit by March’s earthquake and tsunami. The hall, seating up to 700 spectators, will be a ‘pneumatic structure’ so that it can be inflated quickly with air.”
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Dallas Symphony Musicians’ Salaries Stay Flat In New Contract
“The Dallas Symphony Orchestra has spent the last year trying to balance its books and fill its coffers.” After cutting $1 million from its administrative budget, the orchestra struck an agreement with musicians that will raise salaries by only 1% over the next two years.
Is Close Encounters Of The Third Kind The Founding Work Of Postmodern Art?
Jonathan Jones: “I have been watching Steven Spielberg’s 1977 science-fiction film and it struck me as a work of art, almost a filmed installation, that defines what ‘postmodernity’ is, or was, or will be.”
World Shakespeare Festival (70 Productions, Thousands Of Performers) To Be Centerpiece Of London Olympics Festival
Festival director Deborah Shaw said at the launch of the festival, which is being produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company, that it would “redefine what’s possible in creating a festival in a global age”.
Spending On Paper Books Slumps In “Kindle” Summer
“Although the number of novels that sold 10,000 copies or more was similar to 2010 levels (97 in 2011 compared to 92 in 2010), BookScan data suggests mid-list sales are feeling the squeeze, with only 697 books selling 1,000 or more in August, down from 798 last year.”
Does It Matter Who Wrote Shakespeare’s Plays? Hell, Yes.
“The fact is it matters utterly, otherwise there would be no conspiracy theories in first place.”
Where Hollywood Shies Away, Theatre Celebrates Old Age
From Falstaff and Lady Bracknell to King Lear and Samuel Beckett’s doomed geezers to the monstrous old mother in The Beauty Queen of Leenane, the stage, “largely unbound by Hollywood’s obsession with youth, has always been a good place to play out the threats and opportunities posed by age.”
Do Humans Think Like Quarks? Does Quantum Math Explain How The Mind Works?
“Human thinking, as many of us know, often fails to respect the principles of classical logic.” One researcher “has shown that these errors actually make sense within a wider logic based on quantum mathematics. The same logic also seems to fit naturally with how people link concepts together, often on the basis of loose associations and blurred boundaries.”
Tenor Salvatore Licitra Dies From Head Injuries
“The Italian tenor Salvatore Licitra, whose powerful voice and sunny personality landed him center stage on the opera houses of the world, died Monday morning in an Italian hospital, eight days after a Vespa accident in Sicily.”
South Africa Providing Bumper Crop Of Young Opera Singers
“South African black opera voices have burst onto the international stage … Experts say their rise is no sudden outpouring of new talent but rather that all-race freedom in 1994 levelled the playing field to allow those with remarkable gifts who were stifled under apartheid to enter the game.”