“Musicians in the Toledo Symphony have approved a contract that calls for compensation reductions ranging from 5 to 20 percent.”
Tag: 09.25.13
Soon-To-Be-Former-Mayor Michael Bloomberg Will Helm London Gallery
“Mr. Bloomberg has long eyed a return to the more global lifestyle he enjoyed in pre-political days, and London — where he has cultivated deep ties to Britain’s cultural and political elite — is a natural first stop.”
Here’s The Interview Wherein Novelist David Gilmour Went Off The Rails
“I don’t love women writers enough to teach them, if you want women writers go down the hall. What I teach is guys. Serious heterosexual guys. F. Scott Fitzgerald, Chekhov, Tolstoy. Real guy-guys. Henry Miller. Philip Roth.”
UNESCO And Museum Council Release Emergency List Of Endangered Syrian Antiquities
“The International Council of Museums (ICOM) has published an ’emergency red list’ of Syrian cultural objects in danger of being looted and illicitly traded. The list, which includes vessels, architectural elements, stamps, coins and figural sculpture, will be distributed to customs officials, police, auction houses and museums around the world.”
The Difficulty With MOOCs In Music?
“It drives me nuts a little bit. Without structural and legal support, we’ve categorized an entire area of culture as being off limits for MOOCs. And I have issues with that, coming from a school of music.”
Choreographer Hofesh Schechter To Direct 2014 Brighton Festival
“Choreographer Hofesh Shechter is to guest direct Brighton Festival 2014, an annual mixed arts event that takes place across the city. Shechter, who is also a composer and musician, will open the festival with his contemporary dance company’s new production in May.”
Hollywood Thinks Its Market Research Is Awful
“Audience tracking, a cottage industry created in the 1970s, works principally by polling viewers at test screenings to gauge interest and awareness of a film, or over opening weekend to provide a window on a movie’s demographics. … Many in the film industry believe that current tracking systems, which have been loudly criticized this summer for considerable inaccuracies in predicting opening weekend box office, are in dire need of improvement to better determine the viewing habits of today’s moviegoers.”
Why Donald Antrim Won’t Call Himself A Novelist
The new MacArthur winner says that an editor he once worked for “felt that a novelist was a person who had dedicated his or her life to the pursuit – the professional pursuit – of the art form. At the time, I thought that Ray’s opinions seemed curmudgeonly, old-school. Now that I’ve spent some years writing fiction, I am more inclined to see his point, the rightness of it.”
Shakespeare: To Update Or Not To Update? The New York Times Launches A Debate
As a series of high-profile productions opens in New York this season, writes Charles Isherwood, “fellow New York Times writers and I will be regularly posting commentaries on aspects of them, engaging larger questions about how today’s theater artists approach these canonical works, and inviting you to add your opinions about how vitally Shakespeare continues to speak to modern audiences.”
German Stand-Up Comedians Not Only Exist, They’re Telling Jokes About Germans
“Germany has had a kick-me sign on its back for comedians at least since Kaiser Wilhelm donned a spiked helmet more than a century ago.” (Think Charlie Chaplin, Mel Brooks’s The Producers, Hogan’s Heroes, Mike Myers’s Sprockets.) But all those acts were outsiders laughing at Germans. Germans are getting in the act now. … Lederhosen-wearing Hilby the Skinny German Juggle Boy is among a growing group of German comedians who get laughs mocking Germany.”