“The grandiose reconstruction of the Bolshoi Theater has negatively affected its neighbor, the Maly Theater, causing the building to sink faster into the earth … Both theaters, built on the city’s Teatralnaya Ploshchad, had the same problem connected with ground waters flowing through the area.”
Tag: 11.19.12
Is Hollywood Moving Recording Of Movie Scores From The US To Europe?
Film industry figures say that the big studios are pulling their film score work out of L.A., recording instead with orchestras in London or with cheaper Czech or Slovak musicians – and these figures argue that restrictive US musicians’ union rules are to blame. Union officials not only dismiss the charge; they claim that the alleged exodus of film score work from L.A. is exaggerated.
Marina Abramovic On Finally Being Famous
“People listen to me now. Before, they didn’t. Now they give me much more platform to do things. That makes you superstar! If you use [fame] otherwise, you can also sit at home, indulge yourself in drugs and waste all the time. Which I have never done and never will!”
Art Historians Are Flunking The Internet
Getty Trust president James Cuno: “Of course we have technology in our galleries and classrooms and information on the Web … But we aren’t conducting art historical research differently. We aren’t working collaboratively and experimentally. As art historians we are still, for the most part, solo practitioners working alone in our studies and publishing in print and online as single authors and only when the work is fully baked.”
Can An All-Women Julius Caesar Work On Stage?
“[With a cast] headed by Harriet Walter as Brutus and directed by Phyllida Lloyd (of Mamma Mia! fame), it opens at the Donmar Warehouse, London, later this month. They are creating, says Lloyd, ‘new music’ by having female voices speak the words of some of Shakespeare’s most bellicose men.”
L.A.’s Silenced Reprise Theatre Finds New Leader For Reorganization
“The financially troubled Reprise Theatre Company says it has hired Stephen Eich, an L.A. theater veteran, to help lead its efforts to reorganize during its self-imposed hiatus. The company is hoping to relaunch sometime in the summer of 2013, said actor Jason Alexander, who is Reprise’s artistic director.”
Batsheva Dance Co. Braces For More Protests In London
“The company, who have been touring in the UK since August, … have faced a series of protests en route, with 11 performances disrupted in a nationwide campaign called ‘Don’t Dance With Israeli Apartheid’.”
Lyric Opera Of Chicago’s Chorus Master Suddenly Quits
“Martin Wright, chorus master of the Lyric Opera of Chicago, has abruptly resigned from the post, less than halfway through his first season on the job. In a cryptic two-sentence statement released Saturday morning, the company said that Wright had resigned ‘for health reasons’.”
Choral Conductor Philip Ledger Dead At 74
“A composer and arranger of church music, Ledger is much loved for his recordings with the Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, including a Christmas favourite, the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols. … He was a close associate of composer Benjamin Britten and worked with Peter Pears at the Aldeburgh Festival.”
Pitch Battle: Watch Four Starchitects Compete For A Big Manhattan Commission
“You’ve seen them posing in magazines, performing in lecture theatres and maybe even shouting across the office. But it is unlikely you’ve ever sat behind a boardroom table and given Richard Rogers, Zaha Hadid, Rem Koolhaas or Norman Foster a grilling.”