Montreal music blogger Sean Michaels took the award for his debut novel, Us Conductors, a thoroughly fictionalized account of the life of Leon Theremin, inventor of you-know-what.
Tag: 11.10.14
The Songwriters Of “Frozen” Have A New Musical On The Way
Up Here, by Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez, “will tell the story of a socially awkward computer repairman named Dan who becomes attracted to Lindsay, a t-shirt designer. But his overactive imagination keeps getting in the way of a potential relationship.”
How The Bond Between Two Gay Men Produced Some Of World War I’s Finest Poetry
When Siegfried Sassoon met Wilfred Owen at a war hospital in Scotland.
Have Recordings Hurt The Art Of Piano-Playing?
Stuart Isacoff: “A performance should be unpredictable – an adventure. Today we often demand instead that an interpretation be unblemished, ‘correct’ – something to be memorialized and imitated. (Those of us who teach can attest to the number of students who see their job as learning to duplicate exactly a particular recording of a work by a recognized artist.)”
Net Neutrality For Dummies
Matthew Inman explains it all simply and clearly for those who don’t yet get it. (includes gratuitous references to crab tacos)
Some People Are Biologically Incapable of Dancing
“Most bad dancers have nothing but their own awkwardness and self-consciousness to blame, but for a few, a complete lack of rhythm could have a biological explanation, suggests some new research published this week … It’s called beat-deafness, and it’s a sensory deficit analogous to being tone-deaf, or color-blind.”
Top Posts From AJBlogs 11.10.14
Opening Soon In Tacoma: New Wing, New Collection
AJBlog: Real Clear Arts Published 2014-11-10
Is Opera Really “Dead”?
AJBlog: CultureCrash Published 2014-11-10
“Meaningfully Profitable”: Sotheby’s Bill Ruprecht on the Performance of Auction Guarantees
AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2014-11-10
Zurbarán In The News!
AJBlog: Real Clear Arts Published 2014-11-09
Laugh, and you laugh alone
(Terry Teachout on pianist Harriet Cohen)
AJBlog: About Last Night Published 2014-11-10
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Tuning Prisoners Into A Human Piano
“In music class, these men were able to temporarily change their identity from prisoner to student, from being numbered to being human. Music became a life force, providing vital human connection in an environment where social interaction is suppressed.”
President Obama Weighs In On Net Neutrality, Calling The Internet ‘A Utility’
“The White House proposal calls for no paid prioritization, no blocking of any content that is not illegal, and no throttling of Internet services, where some customers have their Internet speeds artificially slowed down.”
How Language Becomes Slang
“What counts as slang? Where does it come from? And why does it exert such a powerful hold on the middle–class imagination?”