As part of the ongoing White House music series, “the first lady will host a Classical Music Student Workshop Concert, which will feature an appearance by superstar violinist Joshua Bell, guitarist Sharon Isbin, cellist Alisa Weilerstein and pianist Awadagin Pratt.”
Tag: 10.29.09
Group: Blind Or Deaf Actress Should Get B’way Miracle Role
The advocacy group Alliance for Inclusion in the Arts says a blind or deaf child actress should have been cast in the “Miracle Worker” role that went to Abigail Breslin, while the Broadway show’s lead producer argues that it would be “financially irresponsible to approach a major revival without making a serious effort to get a star.”
Canadian Opera Covers $1.6M Shortfall With Special Fund
“How could there be a shortfall when, as COC board president Paul Spafford proudly reported, for the third year in a row since moving into its new home at the Four Seasons Centre, the opera company played to full houses?” Among other things, “[d]onations from individuals and corporations were $1.1 million below target.”
Canada Launches National Arts-Awareness Initiative
“A new, national initiative is under way to heighten Canadians’ awareness of the arts, their accessibility to art and artists, and their ‘participation in and engagement with’ the activities of the cultural sector.”
Copies Of Hemingway Papers Join Collection At JFK Library
The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library “announced this week that Cuba has shared copies of 3,000 letters and documents from the Hemingway archives at the country’s Ministry of Culture. The material fills a hole in the library’s collection, which purports to have the most comprehensive body of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s writings.”
MoMA’s Nouvel Tower Gets Green Light From NYC
“The City Council put the finishing touches yesterday on the Museum of Modern Art’s request to build an 82-story tower,” designed by Jean Nouvel, “that would rise as high as the Chrysler Building, granting the project final approval — and leaving Midtown neighbors seeing red.”
The Art-House Cinema Returns To Boston
Tomorrow “the Stuart Street Playhouse reopens as a movie theater and Boston gets its first art house cinema in years.” But, at least to start, it will not be a first-run house; it will open with movies that “have been playing in local theaters since last month.”
Why Not Even Twitter Can Weaken The Power Of Narrative
“Narrative isn’t merely a technique for communicating; it’s how we make sense of the world. The storytellers know this. They know that the story is the original killer app.” So, all threats to its existence notwithstanding, the long-form story is not going to go away.
GarcÃa Lorca’s Grave Opened As Spain Confronts Its History
“On Wednesday … under pressure from human rights activists and with the acquiescence of [Federico] GarcÃa Lorca’s family, Spanish authorities began exhuming six mass graves in Alfacar. The opening of GarcÃa Lorca’s grave is the latest and most high profile effort by Spain to come to terms with its ugly past.”
How Big A Goldman Donation Would Quell The Anger?
Billionaire philanthropist Peter G. Peterson says a charitable donation by Goldman Sachs would have to total “at least $1 billion” in order to “have much resonance in the public,” furious as it is over bonuses paid to employees of the taxpayer-rescued securities firm, which is “considering a new charitable program.”