“We’re not making religious music, our ideals are just embedded into it,” explains the lead rapper of the group called Shtar. “Torah is just the structure for expressing yourself and being the best you.”
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No, Joshua Bell’s Not The Best Violinist In The World (No One Is)
“The quest for technical best is a form of hiding. You can hide from the marketplace because you’re still practicing your technique. And you can hide from the hard work of real art and real connection.”
The Real Trevor Nunn: A Life In The Theatre
“So, a dyed-in-the wool, Labour-voting millionaire – and, since 2002, a knight. One of the best living directors; also, sometimes, one of the worst; a reluctant impresario, but a fierce defender of his record; a lover of the toughest classic drama, and also of shameless sentiment. As a life in theatre goes, it is certainly eventful. Where did it all go wrong – or right?”
Artists” Impact On Ireland’s Economy
“Ireland’s state-funded arts organisations and practitioners generated turnover equivalent to more than twice what they received in grant-in-aid from the Arts Council and supported more than 2,600 jobs in 2010.”
New Market For “Limited Edition” Digital Art (Can This Be Real?)
“The platform aims to encourage people who might not be able to afford these artists’ original pieces to become collectors of digital editions which they can access via their mobiles, tablets, PCs and connected TVs. With each purchase comes a certificate of authenticity, which — crucially — entitles the owner to resell the works at a later date if they so wish.”
The Bill That Would Kill The Internet (No, It’s Not Hyperbole)
“It amounts to the holy grail of intellectual-property enforcement that the recording industry, movie studios and their union and guild workforces have been clamoring for since the George W. Bush administration: The bill grants rights holders the unfettered power to effectively kill websites they believe are dedicated to infringing activities — without needing to get a judge’s permission.”
Ai Weiwei Calls His Tax Troubles ‘Social Performance’
“This has become a social performance and there are so many people involved. Even the [Chinese government-owned] Global Times. … This has generated such energy which has never happened in the history of China. If they want to crush somebody, then normally, for that person, what’s left there is just silence.”
Remembering Francis Ford Coppola’s Zoetrope Studios
“That’s American Zoetrope all over: excess, hubris, majestic ideals and brilliant innovation, all mired in recurrent financial chaos, and overseen by a magical, mercurial, charismatic figure seemingly straight out of the real Renaissance (and Italian to boot).”
Louisville Orchestra Collateral Damage: Kentucky Opera To Perform With Keyboards Only
Describing the decision as due to “circumstances beyond the control of the Kentucky Opera,” a letter to patrons from the company’s general director said that the pit band for this weekend’s performances of Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro will be two pianos and a harpsichord.
Jonathan Lethem On The Role A ‘Major Novelist’ Is Supposed To Play
“I came to see it as a strange, very Kabuki kind of thing, very performative. Your job is to have a lot to say up to a point. … There were things it wasn’t cool to say. There were people you weren’t supposed to mention anymore. When I got to be one of the cool kids, all I was supposed to do was answer questions about the cool kids and act like there were no other kids around.”