What people don’t understand is that, for most of history, music was a kind of cloud storage for societies. I like to tell people that music is a technology for societies that don’t have semiconductors or spaceships. If you go to any traditional community, and you try to find the historian, generally it’s a singer. Music would preserve culture; it would preserve folklore. Well, nowadays, we rely on cloud storage to be the preserver of these same things. And I think there’s a strange shift. – Medium
Tag: 11.06.19
Why Jeremy O. Harris Had A Special Performance Of His ‘Slave Play’ For A Black Audience
“That was me being able to look certain people in the face and say: ‘You’re wrong.’ So many people have dictated what my intentions were with Slave Play. One of the things they’ve always articulated is that I wrote Slave Play for white people and that it’s not written for a black audience. That’s so bizarre to me. … It was amazing to sit in a 99.9% black audience and see that 99.9% of the play worked. And the parts that exhilarated the audience on other nights still exhilarated the audience that night.” – The Guardian
Like Your Netflix? It’s Not Going To Be Like This Much Longer
The vast majority of Netflix’s viewers (upwards of 80 percent, according to him) watch licensed content (“Friends” and the like) and in order to create a library of programming audiences will pay for, they’ve gone massively in debt: “Netflix is currently in the hole for about $20 billion in debt and obligations and still operating at a loss.” – Washington Post
Want To See The Sistine Chapel Without The Crowds? It’ll Cost You
For just $76 per person, you can take a guided tour through the halls of the Vatican after the crowds have gone home. Tour groups now arrange affordable, intimate nighttime visits to the heart of Vatican City. – Artnet
Cleveland Orchestra: First Balanced Budget In Three Years, Endowment Up To Record High
For the first time since 2015, the orchestra this year is in the black. On a budget of $53 million supporting everything from concerts and touring to outreach and special presentations under music director Franz Welser-Most, the orchestra in fiscal 2019 reported a surplus of $24,000. – The Plain Dealer
What Happens When You Get Your Dream Ballet Career And You’re Still Miserable?
“Countless dancers find themselves at a crossroads when they question whether they still love dance, whether the sacrifices are worth it or whether a professional career is truly what they want — or truly possible. We spoke with three dancers who faced this crucial turning point and achieved the right balance of ballet in their lives.” – Pointe Magazine
James Dean, Who Died 64 Years Ago, To Star In New Film
Two visual-effects companies will apply CGI to surviving film footage and photographs of the actor, who was killed in a car crash at age 24 in 1955, to create “a realistic version of James Dean” for a live-action Vietnam War-era drama titled Finding Jack, planned for release on Veterans Day 2020. – The Hollywood Reporter
A Picasso And Giacometti Museum Will Open Next Year In Beijing
“Paris’s National Picasso Museum and the Giacometti Foundation are teaming up to manage the new institution for at least the first five years, from June 2020 through June 2025. (After that, they may extend the partnership or hand the museum over to Chinese management.) The institution will present up to four exhibitions each year.” – Artnet
Catherine Deneuve Hospitalized After Minor Stroke
“The 76-year-old screen icon … had a ‘very limited stroke which is reversible’, her family said in a statement. ‘Happily she has no loss of motor function, although she will of course have to rest for a while.” – Yahoo! (AFP)
Time To Take Down The Mona Lisa And Put It In Storage?
“The Louvre is being held hostage by the Kim Kardashian of 16th-century Italian portraiture: the handsome but only moderately interesting Lisa Gherardini, better known (after her husband) as La Gioconda, whose renown so eclipses her importance that no one can even remember how she got famous in the first place.” – The New York Times