Zaeth Ritter Arenas, music director of the Orquesta Sinfónica Sinaloa de las Artes in Culiacán, was rushed to a hospital for emergency surgery on Sept. 27 but died a week later. (in Spanish; Google-translated version here)
Tag: 09.27.15
Brain Eno Talks About The “Ecology Of Culture”
For BBC Radio 6’s annual John Peel Lecture, “Eno will seek to demonstrate how the whole complex of individuals and institutions engaged in culture – artists, broadcasters, gallerists, promoters, DJs, managers, lawyers, fans – are symbiotically connected parts of a single huge organism which we call Culture.” (audio)
The Most Ambitious Effort To Boost Canadian Music
The $168-million complex represents one of the most ambitious showings ever of public support for music in Canada. “This is the largest effort ever to celebrate our music,” says Andrew Mosker, CEO of the NMC. Of the $168-million budget, about $125 million has been raised so far, including $95 million from three levels of government.
Book Blurbs Are A Scourge, A Blight, A Fraud. On The Other Hand…
And if no less a luminary than George Orwell — way back in 1936 — credited the decline of the novel (even then!) with “the disgusting tripe that is written by the blurb-reviewers,” one question naturally arises: Why are blurbs still around — and still, at least among publishers, so popular?
Brian Eno: We Need To Rethink The Place Of Culture
“I think we need to rethink how we talk about culture, rethink what we think it does for us, and what it actually is. We have a complete confusion about that. It’s very interesting.”
Seattle Repertory Theatre Deals With A Big Deficit By Going Big
“You might expect the Rep to tighten its budget, to produce fewer or smaller shows. But board members and top staff are not going that route. Rather, they’re gambling that financial risk will yield eventual reward — and that mounting large-scale, crowd-pleasing shows can keep the box office flush, and the cash contributions flowing.”
An Art Garden In The Heavily Polluted Gowanus Canal
“The floating island was to be filled with multiple tubes. In a poetic twist, the tubes were to be made of the same culvert pipe used to dump pollution and sewage into the canal.”
Kara Walker Takes Her Art About The U.S. To London
“There is this mountain that I grew up in the shadow of, kind of literally. The mountain was claimed by the Ku Klux Klan in 1915 as their spiritual birthplace and the carving was proposed in 1916. It was finally completed in 1972. So we came down to photograph it, and this show arose out of that.”
NYT Contributors Panic About ‘Water Cooler Conversation’ Being Destroyed By Too Much TV
“The diversity of offerings while catering to a diversity of tastes has also produced a splintering of experiences. I’m finding that even people who seem very much like me are watching different shows than I do. This leaves us little to talk about aside from work and politics.”
Shakespeare’s Dad Was Rich, Not Poor, And His Shady Dealings Helped Fund His Son’s Theatrical Aspirations
Waaaaait, what? “It was also wool, not the theatre, that prompted William to leave Stratford-upon-Avon for London in 1585, where he could act as the family’s business representative.”