The piece is scored for violin, cello, flute, oboe, clarinet, and piano; the composer in the novel describes his inspiration this way: “Echoes of Scriabin’s White Mass, Stravinsky’s lost footprints, chromatics of the more lunar Debussy, but truth is I don’t know where it came from.” J. Bryan Lowder unpacks all those references.
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Kristin Chenoweth Begins Comeback After Head Injuries
“Less than four months after a freak accident on the set of The Good Wife left her with a litany of head and body injuries, she’s returning to the stage” with three California performances of a 90-minute solo show.
Pussy Riot Members Face Miserable Prison Conditions
“Two women from punk band Pussy Riot sentenced to jail for an anti-Putin protest in a Moscow cathedral face harsh, Soviet-style prison camps where their lives may be in danger due to a lack of medicine and no hot water amid sub-zero winter temperatures, according to a recently released band member.”
Ian McEwan On The Novella: ‘The Perfect Form Of Prose Fiction’
“It is the beautiful daughter of a rambling, bloated ill-shaven giant (but a giant who’s a genius on his best days). And this child is the means by which many first know our greatest writers. Readers come to Thomas Mann by way of Death in Venice, Henry James by The Turn of the Screw, Kafka by Metamorphosis, Joseph Conrad by Heart of Darkness.”
Follow The Red Line To Find Amsterdam’s Homeless Van Goghs
If visitors to the city’s Museumplein “look up they will then see a red line in the sky and if they follow that down narrow streets, across crowded junctions, over bridges, under a grim 1960s office block, and through pretty squares – they will arrive at the Van Gogh museum’s new home for the next six months, the Amsterdam branch of the Hermitage.”
‘I Was Ayn Rand’s Lover’ (The New Yorker Finds Its Inner Onion)
“I was a fresh-faced seventeen-year-old, she was a prominent international author – and we were lovers. By ‘lovers’ I mean: we were constantly raping each other. Well, first there’d be a long speech. Usually by her. Then we’d gaze deeply at one another, and our souls would begin speaking the only language a man and a woman ever need: the language of mutual self-benefit.”
Do Movies Still Matter?
“Several industry groups, including the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which awards the Oscars, and the nonprofit American Film Institute, which supports cinema, are privately brainstorming about starting public campaigns to convince people that movies still matter.”
Sandy: New York Cancels The Arts Today
Across the New York region, performances were canceled…
In Scotland, Arts Agency Scares Away Artists
“Artists and arts organisations have become ‘afraid’ of Scotland’s flagship arts agency and believe they are now seen as a nuisance, a crisis summit has heard.”
Movies: SO Not Irrelevant! (Say Movie People)
“Several industry groups, including the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which awards the Oscars, and the nonprofit American Film Institute, which supports cinema, are privately brainstorming about starting public campaigns to convince people that movies still matter.”