“He’s back in America with his doctors and they’ve said, ‘Go rest and come back at the end of November and we’ll do a check-up’,” said the maestro’s manager. Slatkin, music director of the Detroit Symphony, has been out of commission since suffering a heart attack on Nov. 1 after conducting the Rotterdam Philharmonic.
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Douglas Campbell, 87, Shakespearean Veteran And AD Of Guthrie Theatre
A “rough-and-ready, red-haired Scot,” Campbell was a mainstay of Tyrone Guthrie’s companies: the Old Vic, the Stratford Festival in Ontario (where he acted and directed for 25 seasons), and the Guthrie in Minneapolis, where he served as artistic director during the 1960s.
How Teetering Orchestras Are Like Teetering Newspapers
Anne Midgette: “The main problem is that both fields seem to be incapable of coming up with an actual new business model, in part because both fields are so deeply invested in their own traditions that they tend to confuse those traditions with their function.”
The First Bank Of Anti-Matter
Conceptual artist Jonathon Keats, the founder of the bank, is issuing anti-money backed by anti-matter, which he defines as “the physical opposite of anything made with atoms, from luxury condos to private jets.” He adds, “Like all banks, The First Bank of Antimatter will issue more currency than we have assets.”
A Sort Of Dancing With The Stars On Ice
“It now seems like such a brilliant idea that it is a surprise no one had thought of it before: pairing figure skaters with hockey players for ice dancing routines in the ultimate ice rink reality show. That’s what the [CBC] has done this fall with Battle of the Blades, a huge hit across Canada.”
The Problem With 3D TV: Those Ridiculous Glasses
“It’s brilliant in theory – but the actual practice of sitting at home wearing cardboard glasses watching TV is rather less so. Channel 4’s black-and-white cardboard specs might … come from Sainsbury’s rather than the bottom of a Frosties packet, but … how [do] you safely manoeuvre a cup of tea to your mouth” while wearing them?
Can Chicago Lure Big Indoor Shoots From Hollywood?
“If all goes according to plan, the city will be home to an enormous new soundstage complex sometime next year, located in almost 50 acres of buildings that formerly housed Ryerson Steel…. In theory, it could mean Chicago will be a draw for the kinds of movies that necessitate large-scale special effects.”
Why Our Portrait Of World War I Is Rendered In Words
“Before 1914, of those who described war, painted it and wrote poetry about it, very few had seen battle themselves. Now a generation of the literary middle class had, and found it by turns mundane, draining and horrific.”
U Of Chicago Unveils $114M Arts Center’s Revised Design
“Many universities have eliminated such marquee projects because of the recession. But U. of C. officials said the recession, as well as Chicago’s failure to land the 2016 Summer Olympics, had aided them by driving down demand for construction work, thus leading contractors to offer lower prices.”
How Doomsday Lost Its Scare Power
“The arts, through sheer ubiquity, are making doomsday way too familiar. And frankly, there was a time when large-scale disaster unsettled — when each time a movie or book or TV movie gave it serious thought, the moment could be unnerving.” Not any longer.