“Some of America’s greatest museums have been made when great collectors and great architects clicked, from the Frick Collection in New York to the Menil Collection in Houston. Though it is a pleasurable place to view extraordinary art, the Broad is not in the same class.”
Tag: 09.17.15
‘War Horse’ To Close On West End After Seven-Year Run, Despite Ongoing Popularity
Said Rufus Norris, director of Britain’s National Theatre (which originated the production), “We could keep it going for longer, we could put a new cast in and drag it out, but our subsidy is to make work here and to reach out to audiences around the country.”
The Tolstoy of the Zulus. The Citizen Kane of Video Games. Subsumptive Analogies Are the Hitler of Figurative Speech!
“If garden-variety similes serve to equate two things, these lopsided comparisons force one term to exert twice the gravitational pull of the other. Call them subsumptive analogies. Condescension is usually baked right in.”
David Willcocks, Who Led Choir Of King’s College, Cambridge To Worldwide Fame, Dead At 95
With dozens of recordings, the globally beloved Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols on Christmas Eve, his decades directing London’s Bach Choir (Britain’s most prominent large amateur chorus), and innumerable descants for church hymns, Willcocks was one of the most influential choral conductors of the 20th century.
The Late Claudio Abbado Gets A Final Honor: Gramophone Record Of The Year
“Three years ago he was honoured with the lifetime achievement award, but this week conductor Claudio Abbado made a final posthumous appearance at the Gramophone Awards as his last recording – Bruckner’s symphony no 9, with the Lucerne Festival Orchestra – was awarded the prestigious recording of the year prize.”
San Francisco’s Historic Curran Theater To Be Renovated And Reopened By Top Broadway Producer
After parting ways with SHN, a producing firm that brought touring Broadway shows to the city, Carole Shorenstein Hays has taken over the Curran and begun restoration work. Work on the 1,650-seat house should be complete in 2017; meanwhile, Shorenstein Hays will present a series of non-traditional works in the building.
The Persuasive Power Of Repeated Falsehoods (Goebbels Was Right)
“Statements you’ve heard many times are easier to process, and this ease leads people ‘to the sometimes false conclusion that they are more truthful,’ the researchers write. Their key – and disheartening – revelation is that they found examples of this unfortunate dynamic ‘even when participants knew better.'”
Cleveland Ballet Comes Back To Stage After 15-Year Hiatus
“Should the new Cleveland Ballet now taking shape succeed and endure, it will mark not only the third official use of that name, but also the beginning of a potentially glorious age: the return of professional ballet to Northeast Ohio after a gap of nearly 15 years.”
Seven Decades Into His Career, George S. Irving Is Still Acting At 92
The first of his 33 Broadway shows was the original Oklahoma!, he acted under directors Gower Champion and John Gielgud and opposite acting legends Vivien Leigh and Liv Ullmann, and he got a death threat for his performance as Richard Nixon in a Gore Vidal satire.
Top Posts From AJBlogs 09.17.15
John Perreault, 78
As many of you will now know, the author of this blog, John Perreault, passed away unexpectedly on Sunday, September 6. I first got to know John in the late 1990s when he came to … read more
AJBlog: Artopia Published 2015-09-17
Images within Images within Images
Wayne McGregor’s Tree of Codes turns the Park Avenue Armory into a 21st-century phantasmagoric playground. read more
AJBlog: Dancebeat Published 2015-09-17
Remember that one time, when I blogged?
It’s been a long, long while since I posted to this blog. For those who were annoyed by that, apologies. For those who didn’t notice, hello. Truth is, I’ve been doing other things. … read more
AJBlog: The Artful Manager Published 2015-09-17
Hyperrealism: Chamber Music from Mars
You may not have heard of Noah Creshevsky (born 1945), but he is, and has been for decades, one of the most amazing figures in current American music. His music, all electronic as far as … read more
AJBlog: PostClassic Published 2015-09-17
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