“Compared to the current creative confidence of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Scottish Opera is in danger of being run into creative and cultural irrelevance – and at just the time when this proud, historically ambitious, over-achieving company could and should be making the case for itself as the single cultural jewel of which the country should be proudest.”
Tag: 10.23.13
Banksy’s New York Residency Runs Afoul Of NYPD’s Graffitti Police
“Today’s announcement on Banksy.co.uk points to a larger obstacle that Banksy will be facing going forward with his New York residency, the New York Police Department’s draconian anti-graffiti policies.”
New Research Gives Clues To How Ancient Greek Music Actually Sounded
“New revelations about ancient Greek music have emerged from a few dozen ancient documents inscribed with a vocal notation devised around 450 BC, consisting of alphabetic letters and signs placed above the vowels of the Greek words.”
Challenge: We Shouldn’t Rely On Schools To Educate In Arts. The Cultural Sector Must Do It
“Instead of asking schools to sort it out for us so that they deliver pupils who have a proper cultural education, we must have a complete overhaul of how we deliver cultural education through our own cultural bodies.”
Keith Jarrett Sure Can Play. But His Behavior…
“Jarrett’s bad behavior over the years has become the stuff of legend. This unpleasant history is widely documented, both informally (blogs, social media) and formally (San Francisco Examiner, New York Times, Le Monde of Paris).”
The Emily Dickinson Wars Break Out Anew Over Online Archive
The project “bring[s] together on a single open-access Web site thousands of manuscripts held by Harvard University, Amherst College, the Boston Public Library and five other institutions.” It is also fueling a “quarrel [that] has been handed to generation after generation after generation.”