“She wouldn’t mind if she were asked less about her great-grandfather and more about Liszt, whose daughter Cosima married Richard Wagner in 1870, making the composer Nike Wagner’s great-great-grandfather.”
Tag: 11.07.14
If You Highlight A Phrase In An E-Book, Research Can Tell You When You’re Not Alone
“Even if we sometimes turn to fiction for help with our lives, we may also be reading for passages that pull us, as Mr. Siegel puts it, back into the infinite.”
London’s Booming Immersive Theatre Scene Might Indicate A Bit Of A Problem With Escapism
“Immersive theatre producers ‘put audience members centre stage’ in an apparently tailored experience, including audiences in the action ‘to make their “escapist” experience all the more unique and personal to them.'”
How DIA’s Art Got Caught Up In Detroit’s Bankruptcy In The First Place
“The idea to rescue a bankrupt American city started with a doodle on a legal pad. U.S. District Judge Gerald Rosen … wrote the word ‘art’ on the pad and drew a box around it. Then he drew an arrow from the box to where he had written the word ‘pensions’.”
“Hunger Games” To Become Stage Show (And Theme Park?)
“The stage show is just the latest extension of Lionsgate’s popular, Jennifer Lawrence-starring franchise, with the company considering a theme park among other ancillary business opportunities.”
Florida Grand Opera Floats A Recovery Plan
“Opera leaders say they can’t go on cannibalizing their own operation. Full-time administrative staff is down from 40 people to 18. This season’s budget is just $8.6 million. To get through the season at that level, FGO has resorted to cost-saving strategies such as borrowing set and costumes for Butterfly from the Sarasota Opera, where Danis used to be director.”
After A Streesful Year, San Diego Arts Organizations Look Up
“The opera crisis did prompt board and staff members of other institutions to take a closer, more serious look at their own organizations.”
So You Don’t Like Abstract Art? That Means You’re Probably This Kind Of Person
“An Italian research team led by psychologist Antonio Chirumbolo reports people with a strong need for cognitive closure—that is, to have quick, definitive answers to vexing questions—are less likely to appreciate abstract art.”
Stephen Hawking As You Don’t Know Him (Yet)
“If Hawking didn’t exist in real life, a canny screenwriter might have invented him: A sly physics genius who slacked his way through life until given a death sentence, an atheist who wooed and won a devout Anglican co-ed as his wife, a prisoner of his own body whose quicksilver mind let him transcend the heavens above: He is a metaphor in waiting, a real-life inspirational hero finally getting his Hollywood close-up.”
Settlement In Atlanta Symphony Lockout?
“The players, who have been locked out without pay for more than two months, will be asked to vote on whether to adopt a new four-year contract that ensures no wage cuts, a modest increase in health care, and a gradual increase in the size of the orchestra to 88 musicians.”