“He wanted his design to protect the idea of the concert hall as refuge — but also to embody the essential informality of Los Angeles. He wanted to demystify and democratize classical music.”
Tag: 09.20.13
How Black Britons Invigorated British Dance
They definitely did, but there’s a problem: “Very little was documented. Companies would come and go, and you had almost no trace of what they did or contributed.”
Why Are Texas Creationists Controlling What Everyone’s Kids Learn?
“Because Texas buys textbooks for more than 4 million students, publishers tend write textbooks designed to capture the Texas market. They then sell the same textbooks in other states. If textbooks in Texas don’t teach evolution, the entire country will suffer.”
Elaine Stritch, Now Less ‘Grousy’ Than In That First Post-New York Article
“I don’t want to be a sad sack who made a mistake. I gotta have a home, a base, a place where all my shoes are. I’m settled. When I first moved in here, I had good friends around me, but I kept thinking, ‘I can’t imagine being here alone.’ But then I was alone, and everything was fine.”
Urban Exploration – Um, Playing On Buildings – Is Often Illegal But Also Amazing
“Just as certain climbers prefer granite to gritstone, and certain cavers prefer wet systems to dry ones, the explorers have their specialisms: the bunkerologists, the asylum seekers, the skywalkers, the builderers, the track-runners, the drainers. Most people start out in ruins, though.”
Sure, Anyone Can Conduct An Orchestra … Of Computers
“The project’s creators, Simon de Diesbach, Jonas Lacôte, and Laura Perrenoud, imagine a future in which music will change drastically and picture the Computer Orchestra as a kind of humanizing antidote to symphonies created and played entirely by algorithm.”
Is Google Replacing People? Well, Kind Of
“We have begun to treat search engines, Evernote, and smartphones the way we’ve long treated our spouses, friends, and workmates. They’re the handy devices we use to compensate for our crappy ability to remember details.”
Stephen King On The Horror Of Dunkin’ Donuts, Alcoholism, And Reading ‘Twilight’
“King notes with some amusement that he has been around so long that kids who read and loved him in the 1970s now run publishing houses and newspapers; he is revered, these days, as a grand old man of American letters.”
Will Osmo Vänskä And The Minnesota Orchestra Musicians Go Wildcat At Carnegie Hall?
Tucked at the end of an article about Friday’s fundraising gala for the organization that has locked out its musicians for a year was this: According to the musicians’ spokesman, “there has been ‘soft interest’ from unspecified quarters in the notion of having the players stage their own Sibelius concerts with Mr. Vänskä at Carnegie, free of management involvement, as unlikely as that may seem.”
Dallas Symphony Musicians Agree To New Contract
“Musicians will receive a base salary increase of 1 percent in 2013 and a 2 percent increase in 2014. If goals for donor pledges and major lead gifts are realized, musicians will receive an additional 2 percent increase in 2015 retroactive to the beginning of the 2014-15 season.”