Hamilton Nolan goes all Peter Singer on us: “There are many things in this world that are all well and good, but that are not the best uses of charitable donations, which are a precious and limited resource. … Opera, as an art form, will survive. The child who gets malaria will not.”
Tag: 09.09.13
Margaret Atwood And Howard Jacobson To Rewrite Shakespeare
The two Booker Prize winners join authors Anne Tyler and Jeanette Winterson in the Hogarth Shakespeare Project, in which the authors will create (in prose) updated versions of Shakespeare’s plays in honor of his 400th birthday.
Can Yoav Talmi Save The Israel Chamber Orchestra?
“Over the past two decades, the frenzied turnover of general and musical directors has caused major unrest. Its constantly changing roster of directors exploited the orchestra in order to carry out weird experiments, before leaving or being asked to leave their posts.” Now the 70-year-old Talmi, back for his third stint as music director, will try to stabilize the ICO.
World Happiness Is On The Rise, Says The UN
“Today in good news, the United Nation’s latest World Happiness Report was released and it shows that happiness is on the rise in more countries than it’s falling. The increased happiness is driven by jolly Latin America and substantially rosier attitudes in Africa.”
Where Do Claire Danes’s Volcanic Performances Come From?
Off-screen, she’s buoyant, goofy and inordinately fond of puns. Onscreen, she plays the sort of roles that lead her to crack, “I’m just working my way through the DSM-V” – and she produces what one colleague calls a “tsunami of emotion”. How does she do it?
Neuro This, Neuro That. There’s Got To Be A Better Explanation
“The neurological turn has become what the “cultural” turn was a few decades ago: the all-purpose non-explanation explanation of everything.”