Copland’s Fanfare is an American anthem. “It was written for the heartland, specifically Cincinnati. But it was also for America. In the end, it was not written for a general or a president, but for the “Common Man,” those“doing all the dirty work” in wartime – in Copland’s words. For those who voted and paid taxes. For those who rationed sugar and gasoline. For a nation united against a common foe. For those who waited for their young men and women to come home.”
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This Fall Simon Rattle Is The Defining Conductor In New York
And he has lots to say in addition to his performances: “This is not an easy time for classical music here. I do only get asked this on this side of the pond. In Europe, with all the troubles, it’s alive and well and kicking. Orchestras are doing amazing things here as well, but it’s more of a struggle. One of the reasons orchestras in Europe went so gangbusters in education was that they saw that there wasn’t much music education here, and they said, ‘We’re frightened what will happen along the road when people haven’t grown up with this.’”
For ‘Saturday Night Live,’ The Blessing And The Curse Of This Election
Sure, Alec Baldwin’s Donald Trump is so mimetic that he’s drowned out the actual candidate in our minds, and sure, Kate McKinnon’s Hillary Clinton is a “savage yet sympathetic portrait of political thirst,” but the best SNL moments came on the edges of the election.
The Making Of A Countertenor
Anthony Costanzo has been in demand for decades – but only to sing very old or very modern roles. That is the curse and blessing of the countertenor.
The L.A. Opera Casts A White Man To Play A Pharoah, And Protests Arrive On Schedule
Will L.A. Opera’s claim to colorblind casting – and the need for a very fit countertenor – help calm the troubled waters?
This Week In Understanding Audiences: Interactive Theatre, Arts Video And Artificial Intelligence
This Week: Theatre used to be more interactive – can it be again?… There’s an awful lot of arts video out there – but what do audiences want?… Can you shame an arts organization into being more diverse?… More orchestras are getting out of their concert halls… Can artificial intelligence connect us more closely to art?
This Week’s AJ Highlights: Ominous Orchestra Results? New Arts Journalism? Accountable Algorithms?
This Week: Record ticket sales at the Chicago Symphony but still a budget problem…Wall Street Journal cuts arts coverage and Boston Globe gets a subsidized critic…Why did Shakespeare’s Globe fire its director?…Two cities on opposite sides of a border, share common arts culture… Who will hold intelligent machines accountable?
Top Posts From AJBlogs For The Weekend 11.06.16
This Week In Understanding Audiences: Interactive Theatre, Arts Video And Artificial Intelligence This Week: Theatre used to be more interactive – can it be again?… There’s an awful lot of arts video out there – but what do audiences want?… Can you shame an arts organization into … read more
AJBlog: AJ Arts Audience Published 2016-11-06
Born in Vail
Vail Dance Festival: Re-Mix NYC performs at City Center, November 3 through 6. Vail Re-Mix performers in 1-2-3-4-5-6 (L to R): Lil Buck, Michelle Dorrance, Robert Fairchild, and Melissa Toogood. Photo: Erin Baiano Damien Woetzel … read more
AJBlog: Dancebeat Published 2016-11-06
Bob Cranshaw, 1932-2016
Bassist Bob Cranshaw succumbed to bone cancer yesterday at his home in New York City. He was 83. He may be best remembered as Sonny Rollins’s bassist for more than half a century, but Cranshaw’s … read more
AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2016-11-05
Lit Crawl L.A./ North Hollywood
THE other night I ventured out to Los Angeles’s North Hollywood neighborhood for the latest installment of Lit Crawl L.A. This annual night out has been going since 2013, but for various reasons I’ve … read more
AJBlog: CultureCrashPublished 2016-11-04
How Can Theatre Be More Like Basketball?
In a video, Diane Paulus, the American Repertory Theatre’s artistic director, explains. “The old vaudeville houses were interactive; in gilded opera theatres, the lights used to stay up, the crowd as much of a spectacle and dramatic social circus as the one that was happening on stage.”
Octavia Spencer Beat The Hollywood Odds – And Now She’s Actively Changing Them
“Ms. Spencer is African-American, female, in her 40s and not twig-shaped – Venn-diagram those traits atop the circle marked ‘Available Parts,’ and the overlapping area shrinks to pea-size.” Yet she’s carved out a career, earned an Oscar, and now branched into producing.