For the time being — this season — management got what it wanted: a reduction of the orchestra’s season from 52 weeks to 40. Thanks to a special donation, the musicians will be paid for next summer, and their total compensation will fall by only 1.6%. – The Baltimore Sun
Tag: 09.23.19
What Amazon’s Big Emmy Wins Mean For The Future Of Streaming
With an avalanche of streaming platforms on their way to compete with Amazon as well as Netflix, what can Amazon’s very successful Emmys Sunday tell us about the future of the streaming wars? Mostly that the era of deep-pocket campaigning has only just begun. – Vanity Fair
Report: Cultural Districts Could Make More Impact
The report, commissioned by the Global Cultural Districts Network, urges cultural districts to plan, deliver and evaluate their social impact more effectively. It says there is “more that cultural districts can do to clarify where their social impact priorities lie and how they relate to their programme and other activities”. – Arts Professional
The Tools A Well-Educated Person Needs
For Aristotle, the virtues of character are not enough by themselves to work the magic of illumination that comes with exiting Plato’s cave. We also need the intellectual virtues: practical wisdom (phronêsis) and theoretical wisdom (sophia) – the latter being what philosophia is the love of. – Aeon
Oops – Emmys Memorialized Andre Previn With Pic Of Leonard Slatkin
Mr. Slatkin tweeted about the mistake on Monday morning, writing, “Andre deserved better.” – The New York Times
Time To Rethink The Ticket Model For Classical Music Concerts?
Is it so far-fetched to wonder what could happen if — like museums, which only raised about 13% of their budgets through admissions fees and memberships in 2015 — they shifted even further away from relying on ticket revenue and more toward a low-cost membership model? – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
How Ann Patchett Threw Her Entire Book Away (Parts Of It A Few Times) Before Getting To The Right Voice
Patchett, author of Bel Canto and State of Wonder (and the new The Dutch House): “It was a funny thing to throw a book out. People seemed much more upset about it than I was. Some people said, It must be like a death! It was nothing like a death. It was like burning a cake. You know that feeling? Oh, hell, I burned the cake. Then you cut the cake open and eat the little pieces in the middle that aren’t completely ruined, then you bake another cake.” – LitHub
The Amazing Hidden City Beneath Paris
This invisible city follows different laws of planning to its surface counterpart. Its tunnelled streets often kink and wriggle, or run to dead ends. Some of them curl back on themselves like whips. At junctions, three or four tunnel-streets might spray out. There are slender highways running almost the length of the tiled map, from southwest to northeast. There are inexplicably broken grids of streets, or hubs where the spokes of different tunnels meet. Coming off some of the tunnels are chambers, irregular in their outlines and with dozens of small connecting rooms. – The New Yorker