The online music revolution has mostly been the province of young pop musicians. But now tenor Plácido Domingo has signed a contract to record for the web. – The Boston Globe
Tag: 10.08.99
DUELING ARTS CENTERS
The Barbican and South Bank are London’s two one-stop arts centers. But while there’s a rivalry of sorts, business is booming for both. Financial Times
DUELING ARTS CENTERS
The Barbican and South Bank are London’s two one-stop arts centers. But while there’s a rivalry of sorts, business is booming for both. Financial Times
REVISITING GUNTER
In the week since he won the Nobel Prize for literature, Critics have been reassessing the writings of Gunter Grass. – Slate
FOOD FIGHT
Art Critics in Los Angeles get into a feud between conceptual-irony and anti-irony camps in the L.A. art world. Artnet.com
ANNALS OF ARCHITECTURE
The new American embassy in Ottawa looks like a battleship. Or a fortress. President Clinton dedicates it today. CBC
New York’s Museum of Modern Art looks back (and forward) –
– with the chestnutian and the unfamiliar. An impressionistic view back with hints of the future. New York Times
MORE POPULAR THAN SHAKESPEARE?
NET-AID
Broadcast live on MTV, VH1, the BBC and others to 60 countries and on radio in another 120 nations, potentially making these the widest-heard musical performances in history. Meanwhile. politics and charges of commercialism dog the event. – The Washington Post
MUSICIAN, AID THYSELF
As Net-Aid, the latest in a long line of mega global benefit concerts (this time for Kosovo) gets organized, a critic ponders these events’ musical impotence. – The Times (UK)
(ALSO: Largest Internet ever. – SF Gate, 10.06.99)