An “astounding new show” at Brandeis University’s Rose Art Museum “makes it indisputable: Nowhere in the Boston area is it possible to get, in one gulp, a comparable sense of the excitement engendered by European and especially American modernism.” If that had been better known, might the Rose’s troubles have been avoided?
Tag: 11.05.09
White House Kids’ Event Signals Shift For Classical Music
“For administrations past, classical music was the logical, even the only, form of entertainment: socially acceptable, properly high-church.” Yesterday’s White House classical music event for kids suggested instead “that classical music no longer automatically holds a position of predominance among today’s power elite.”
And What If People Don’t Give E-Readers For The Holidays?
“This holiday season will be a crucial test of whether e-books can cross over from geeky novelty to mass-market must-have. Major retailers are pushing the format — and, of course, the gadgets they’ve developed to display it.”
A Cunningham Counterpart To Wiseman’s Paris Opera Ballet Doc
Tacita Dean’s Craneway Event “records three days of rehearsals by the Merce Cunningham Dance Company at the Craneway Pavilion,” a converted automobile factory near San Francisco, about a year before Cunningham’s death. The documentary film reminds Alastair Macaulay of Degas’s backstage-at-the-ballet paintings.
Tommasini Gets His Wish: NY City Opera’s ‘Sound-Enhancement’ System Is No More
“Before hearing a note in the [company’s] spiffily remodeled auditorium, which I toured on Monday, I can make one sure prediction: There will be a marked improvement in the integrity and naturalness of the sound. How can I know this in advance? Because the theater’s dreaded amplification system … is gone.”