“Ambitious £70m plans to redevelop the Royal National Theatre have been given the go-ahead. The South Bank theatre will be “opened up”, revealing some of the workings backstage, and will provide seating for an extra 10,000 visitors a year.”
Tag: 10.02.10
Washington Ballet Ditches Live Music For 2010/11
The company’s budget is $8 million, down from $8.3 million last year and $8.5 million in 2008.
JK Rowling Tells Oprah: Maybe More Harry Potter
The characters from the books “are still in my head,” she told Winfrey in an appearance broadcast Oct. 1, according to the show’s website. “I’m not going to say I won’t,” Rowling said. “I loved writing it. So I feel I am done, but you never know.”
Is The Way We Listen To Music Hard-Wired In Our Brains?
“Why is it that we hear the E-flat major of Beethoven’s “Eroica” symphony as heroic (and not just because of the symphony’s name)? Are such judgments inherent in the frequencies of the sound itself–in the way our brains process the wavelengths? Is our emotional reaction hard-wired or is it a matter of convention, a set of responses that are learned and that differ from one musical culture to another?”
Measuring The Economy In Weathervanes
“Weathervane prices peaked four years ago when Sotheby’s sold a 6-foot weathervane of an American Indian for a record $5.6 million. The auction house only sold $7.7 million of Americana all last year, and this spring prices were still off by a third for everything from weathervanes to Queen Anne tea tables.”