Can a native speaker ever make an actual error? Were Strunk & White too oppressive (while flouting their own rules)? Does anyone beyond your 8th-grade English teacher care about the word “enervate”?
Tag: 09.27.12
Minnesota Orchestra Management Threatens Lockout
“Minnesota Orchestra musicians will vote on Saturday whether to accept a contract proposal that management has characterized as its ‘final offer.’ If the musicians reject the deal and if talks on Sunday fail to produce an agreement, the board has indicated it will lock the musicians out.”
Gramophone Award Winners 2012: Abbado, Calleja, Heinrich Schütz(!)
Tenor Joseph Calleja was named Artist of the Year, while éminence grise maestro Claudio Abbado received a Lifetime Achievement Award and had three different recordings win their categories. Record of the Year honors went to a sleeper candidate: Schütz’s radiant Musicalisches Exequien performed by the relatively unknown (but marvelous) Belgian group Vox Luminis.
Scotland Approves A Second Sistema Programme
“Scotland’s second Sistema orchestra has been given the go ahead in the Govanhill area of Glasgow. Big Noise Govanhill will follow the example of its sister orchestra in Stirling’s Raploch area which was set up five years ago.”
New $100K Playwriting Prize Named For Teddy Kennedy
“A $100,000 theater award, recognizing a play or musical inspired by American history, is being established at Columbia University in honor of the Senator Edward M. Kennedy [by] the university and one of Mr. Kennedy’s sisters, Jean Kennedy Smith.”
That $7 Flea-Market Renoir Is Apparently Stolen Goods
A Virginia woman came across Paysage Bords de Seine at a West Virginia flea market in 2010 and had it authenticated this year. Just days before it was to be sold at auction, documents have surfaced indicating that the painting was stolen from the Baltimore Museum of Art in 1951.
L.A. Bond Guru’s Stolen Art Collection Recovered
“Jeffrey Gundlach said Thursday that an estimated $10 million in 20th century art that was burglarized from his Santa Monica home has now been safely returned, and that police told him they have arrested two suspects. … [He] had posted a $1.7-million reward for the return of works by Piet Mondrian, Jasper Johns, Richard Diebenkorn, Joseph Cornell and others.”
Pop Culture Has Turned Against The Liberal Arts
Time was, an archaeology professor (Indiana Jones) could be the hero of an entire action movie franchise. “If those films were released today, I wonder if some Hollywood producer would insist that the Jones boys be changed from professors to executives at a private treasure-salvaging company. The idea that liberal-arts lovers can be heroes seems even more antiquated than the artifacts the Jones’ [sic] are after.”
Naxos Chief Klaus Heymann On The Future Of Music Consumption
“I think in the long run, that will be the way people consume music – classical music and other music. And if I look at my crystal ball, I would say that in five years, 50% of our business will be in all kinds of streaming.”
Why Patti LuPone Went Into The Theater
“I fell in love with the audience tap dancing downstage right [at age 4]. … I said in my head, ‘I can’t get in trouble up here. I can do whatever I want, and the audience will still smile at me.'”