“When the election happened we didn’t know what to expect. But the week has ended on a high with the Monet and Phillips moving up a level and now this. There is still a market.”
Tag: 11.18.16
China Starts Exporting Orchestras To The Rest Of The World
“Once, classical music generally travelled from the West to the rest. Now China is reversing the exchange, not merely performing Western classical music in China, but exporting it.”
Revered Landscape Architect Diana Balmori Dead At 84
New Yorkers will recognize her floating island of water-filtering plants in the Gowanus Canal (Brooklyn’s own Superfund site) and the palm-filled Winter Garden in the former World Financial Center (currently Brookfield Place). But among her greatest projects are the reclamation of an old industrial area in Bilbao and the landscape plans (which were integrated from the start with the built architecture) of South Korea’s new administrative capital, Sejong City.
Nacho Duato, After Berlin Misadventure, Says He Will Not Direct Another Dance Company
The Spanish choreographer, who earned worldwide renown at the helm of the Compañía Nacional de Danza in Madrid, has not had an easy time of it at the Staatsballett Berlin – which announced in September, three years ahead of time, that his contract would not be renewed. Back in Madrid for a gala, Duato explains what he’ll do instead. (in Spanish; Google Translate version here)
NY Phil’s $200K Composer Prize Goes To Louis Andriessen
The 77-year-old Dutchman, whose influence on contemporary music in the U.S. has been great, is the third winner of the Philharmonic’s Marie-Josée Kravis Prize for New Music, which also includes a commission for a new orchestral work.