Called the Warner Music Prize and funded by industrialist Len Blavatnik, who purchased Warner Music Group in 2011, the award “is expected to be given out annually to an instrumentalist or singer between 18- and 35-years-old who shows strong career potential.”
Tag: 11.03.14
Notes On The Exotic
“Sometimes one can recapture that fleeting sensation with names – place-names. If I am hiking up a familiar path near my house in Turin and I think, ‘I am climbing a hill in Italy,’ there is a brief whiff of foreign glamour. And, when I arrived in Uzbekistan and was disappointed to find that city people took buses and trams as they do everywhere else, I could revive a touch of fantasy by silently repeating, ‘Streetcars in Samarkand’.”
Tom Magliozzi, Clack Of “Car Talk”, Dead At 77
Producer Doug Berman: “He and his brother changed public broadcasting forever. Before Car Talk, NPR was formal, polite, cautious … even stiff. By being entirely themselves, without pretense, Tom and Ray single-handedly changed that, and showed that real people are far more interesting than canned radio announcers. And every interesting show that has come after them owes them a debt of gratitude.”
Top Posts From AJBlogs 11.03.14
Arts, policy, and the election
AJBlog: For What it’s Worth Published 2014-11-03
Hirshhorn: Ageism At It Worst
AJBlog: Real Clear Arts Published 2014-11-02
What’s the Answer to Abstract Dance?
AJBlog: Fresh Pencil Published 2014-11-03
“Dido” and “Bluebeard” at LA Opera
AJBlog: CultureCrash Published 2014-11-03
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Is That Your Corporate-Sponsored Research Dump In The Middle Of The Love Scene?
“It’s an e-book, a series of websites and web TV shows, and a vehicle for content sponsored by companies. And if it succeeds, it could usher in a new business model for publishers, one that blurs the lines between art and commerce in ways that are routine in TV shows and movies but rare in books.”
What It Takes To Get, And To Keep, A Community Theatre Running
“‘We got caught up in our passion and just dove in,’ Mr. Bassett says. ‘We didn’t sit and crunch the numbers.'” (Hint: Crunch the numbers.)
Letting Go Of The Foodie Life
“If shopping and cooking really are the most consequential, most political acts in my life, perhaps what that means is that our sense of the political has shrunk too far—shrunk so much that it fits into our recycled-hemp shopping bags. If these tiny acts of consumer choice are the most meaningful actions in our lives, perhaps we aren’t thinking and acting on a sufficiently big scale.”
Adam Gopnik Contemplates Mutant Pastry
“Let us look, then, at these case studies of how stale bread becomes fresh and familiar sweets take mutant forms, and ask why people line up at an ungodly hour to eat sweets that taste odd and look new. Is the pretzel croissant the forerunner of the Cronut or merely its parallel creature? Is the Cronut a craze that, like the designer cupcake, is doomed to walk the avenues briefly and then die in shame and embarrassment, or is it a true contribution – as the croissant and the doughnut and the pretzel all were in their day – and likely to become part of the common cupboard?”
“The Protest Failed Because It Relied On Falsehoods”: Alex Ross On “The Death Of Klinghoffer”
“The opera is not anti-Semitic, nor does it glorify terrorism. … The most specious arguments against Klinghoffer elide the terrorists’ bigotry with the attitudes of the creators. By the same logic, one could call Steven Spielberg an anti-Semite because the commandant in Schindler’s List compares Jewish women to a virus.”