Well, who paid the consultants? Who was the client? The MinnOrch board. Blogger and professional orchestra musician Robert Levine looks through the document – and the assumptions the analysts made.
Tag: 09.05.13
The New York Times‘s 20 Directors To Watch
Manohla Dargis and A. O. Scott discuss – and interview – an assortment of filmmakers aged 40 and under from four continents.
Egyptians Join (And Tweet) Together To Combat Looting
“Amid the bloodshed and chaos of the past three months, evidence is growing that ordinary Egyptians are banding together in an effort to secure archaeological sites, museums and monuments in the face of growing looting and deliberate targeting of the country’s heritage.”
Small U.S. Theaters Presenting Large, Multiple-Installment Epics
At the Public Theater in New York. Mike Daisey is doing 29 different monologues on consecutive nights. The Utah Shakespeare Festival is in the midst of a multi-year project to perform all ten of the history plays in chronological order. WNYC’s tiny Greene Space is hosting star-studded readings of all ten plays in August Wilson’s Century Cycle. How and why are these little companies doing such big projects?
New York Theater Ballet Seeks New Home After Building Is Sold
The New York Theater Ballet, a small company with an outsize reputation for staging classics and the work of emerging choreographers, … has until Sept. 30 to vacate its studio and office space … on the fifth floor of the parish house of the Madison Avenue Baptist Church.”
The Evolutionary Case For Fiction
“Among the many things that set humans apart from other animals is our capacity for counterfactual thinking. At its most basic level, this means we can hypothesize what might happen if we run out of milk; in its most elaborate form – we get War and Peace. Stories, then, are complex counterfactual explorations of possible outcomes: What would happen if I killed my landlady? What would happen if I had an affair with Count Vronsky? How do I avoid a water buffalo?”
Are You A Language Bully?
“Here’s the best way to know for certain: Do you annoy and infuriate people at dinner parties and other social gatherings by correcting others on how they use or pronounce certain words? That’s the key hallmark, because there’s certainly nothing wrong with simply knowing things about words that the average person does not.”
Keeping Your Enemies Close: New York’s Museum Of Art & Design Chooses Harshest Critic As Director
“The Museum of Arts and Design has named Glenn Adamson as its director, choosing a researcher without the typical executive experience who has been one of the museum’s most scathing critics.”
If We Can See HD Versions Of Rare Books, Why Keep The Originals?
“The rise of tablets, Kindles and online editing has not signalled the death of the printed book, but instead only alerted scholars to the importance of its history as a physical object, and provided us with digitised tools that enable us to work at an unprecedented speed and comparative detail.”
Warning: Actors’ Unions Merge, But That Doesn’t Necessarily Improve Their Bargaining Position
“SAG-AFTRA members expecting a sweetheart deal from the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers in next year’s talks shouldn’t hold their breath, according to a top labor negotiations expert.”