“Originally expected to return from back surgery last week, Levine will now miss the complete cycle of nine Beethoven symphonies that he had programmed and the BSO had promoted enthusiastically.” Former New York Philharmonic music director Lorin Maazel will fill in for him at Symphony Hall and Carnegie Hall.
Tag: 10.27.09
Hundreds Of Visitors Show Up To Closed Ulster Museum
Newly refurbished, the Ulster Museum is welcoming the public after a three-year closure, and “more than 16,000 people filed through its doors since the grand re-opening last Thursday.” Hundreds more showed up yesterday, when the museum was closed, as it always is on Mondays.
Ian McKellen Says Coming Out Was Key To His Success
“The belief among some in his field that opportunities automatically get narrower after such candor is to him mythology. ‘I’m living proof the opposite is true. You get more self-confidence. You don’t have that bit of dishonesty,’ he says, adding that acting ‘is about disguise. But it’s not about lying.'”
Reacting To Rift, Joyce Stagehands Join IATSE
Joyce Theater stagehands voted yesterday to join the “powerful union” that “struck Broadway in 2007 and negotiated a contract at Carnegie Hall that resulted in a props supervisor earning $530,044 last year.” Now Joyce executive director Linda Shelton says she’s “concerned that some dance companies won’t be able to afford us anymore.”
Urban Dance: If You Teach It, They Will Come
Undergrads who pursue the University of East London’s urban dance degree — an anomaly in the UK — are taught “not just hip-hop styles like krumping, popping and locking, but also the fundamentals of African dance, capoeira and kathak.” Purists sneer, but the program’s “popularity is booming.”
A Broadway Vet Returns, After A Bout Of Homelessness
“Just a year ago, [Terri] White, 61, could not make rent.” Now she’s back on Broadway in “Finian’s Rainbow,” but at the time “[s]he could not work. She also could not find a way to ask for help. For three months, when she was not crashing on a friend’s couch, she slept in Washington Square Park.”
Considering Conducting’s New Wave
“Is this just the latest changing of the guard, as middle-age maestros move up the ladder and eminent conductors in their 80s … shed important posts? Or are the latest crop of baton-wielders, like tennis phenoms, obtaining expert training and top talent agents earlier than before?”
Tax Breaks Lure Films, Sometimes With Altered Scripts
Tax incentives offered by some countries and various states in the U.S. “have become critical for many independent producers, who have found it increasingly difficult to raise film financing through the usual channels.” Some are eager enough for the savings to change the script to fit the new locale.