“Why is no one discussing this? Whatever your own aesthetics, much like the idea that biodiversity equals ecosystem resilience, you should not want to see this branch of creative activity, from composers young and old, squeezed out of existence the way it has seemed to be lately.”
Tag: 11.04.16
Arabic Translators Did A Lot More Than Just Preserve Greek Philosophy
The translation was a well-funded, politically motivated effort to show that Muslims were just as smart as, and in many cases smarter and more philosophically advanced than, Greek-speaking Christians.
Inside The (New, Huge) Studio Of A Woman Of Steel
The artist Carol Bove has been successful with her massive metal pieces that she, and 10 assistants, have moved into a former brick factory. She likes the move: “The ability to afford what is essentially a huge machine shop has allowed her, perhaps counterintuitively, she said, to make pieces with more spontaneity.”
When A Theatre (Allegedly) Asks A Women Candidate For Artistic Director What She’d Do For Child Care
And then if that theatre also ends up hiring a man, who used to be AD two decades earlier, lets its current AD (also a woman) go earlier than planned and draws a veil of “no comment” over the entire affair, objections will emerge.
A New Jersey-born Comedian Is London’s New ‘Night Mayor’
London’s nightclubs and music venues have been closing at a massive rate, but some subway lines are now running all night in London. New Night Czar Amy Lamé says she can’t wait to “hit the streets” so that she can help make plans and policy changes for “revelers, nighttime workers, businesses and shareholders”
A Canadian University Theatre Casts A White Woman As Othello, And You Can Probably Guess What Happened Next
The student director said she had “researched” the play, and that the role of Othello was the role of an “outsider” – a role that, she claimed, had nothing to do with race.
Some Concerts *Want* You To Drift Off
Seriously, these performers create music in complete darkness – and expect their audiences to unplug and, very possibly, fall asleep right there.
Mila Kunis Writes A Scorching Letter About Hollywood’s Sexism
Kunis, an actor who’s married to another actor (Ashton Kutcher), is scathing to the (male) producer who told her if she wouldn’t pose semi-nude, she’d “never work in this town again.”
Fort Worth Symphony Strike Has No End In Sight, So What’s Next?
Well, what’s next is a comparison to Dallas, of course. For instance: “Bass Hall charges the Fort Worth Symphony $4,100 a day to use the facility, for both rehearsals and performances. The Meyerson Symphony Center, by comparison, charges the Dallas Symphony $1 a year.”
The Philadelphia Orchestra Joins The Music On Demand Game, For Love (And Some Money)
It’s not perfect or pretty, says reviewer David Patrick Stearns, but for $50, listeners can get access to a massive archive of the orchestra’s history.