“Something else that’s really interesting about how our emotions are affected by music is that there are two kind of emotions related to music: perceived emotions and felt emotions.”
Tag: 11.20.13
A Shift In The Ways Musicians Earn Their Income
“If the demand for, say, live performances is enhanced by the ‘popularity’ of the artists generated from the number of distributed recordings (legal and illegal copies combined), then we obtain the conditions under which publishers of recorded media may lose for piracy, whereas artists may gain from piracy.”
A Day In The Life Of The Milwaukee Symphony
“Seventy-five Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra musicians joined music director Edo de Waart and guest pianist Ingrid Fliter to play a matinee concert last Friday at the Marcus Center. … Rick Wood photographed the musicians before, during and after the concert, with an eye toward capturing images of what their day’s work is like.”
Creating Costumes, And Then Dancing In Them
When the Mark Morris Dance Group’s Maile Okamura “designs costumes for dance pieces, she doesn’t have to go far to get a performer’s perspective – she’s one herself.”
Why Should Doris Lessing Have Been All Flustered And Grateful About The Nobel Prize?
“Winning the Nobel Prize was not the most important moment of Doris Lessing’s extraordinary and prolific life, and it seems as though some of her critics won’t forgive her for not pretending that it was, just as they won’t forgive her for leaving her two young children in the care of their father, in Rhodesia, so that she could pursue a different kind of life.”
Some Numbers (And Accusations) About The Minnesota Orchestra
“In a graph-filled presentation, Save Our Symphony Vice Chairman Jonathan Eisenberg and Treasurer Mariellen Jacobson called on MOA leadership to be replaced and called for the governor, state auditor, the state’s attorney general, as well as Minneapolis officials, to investigate financial operations of the MOA.”
Stratford Festival Rebound – 2013 Ends Box Office Slide
“At the end of the 2012 season – the final year when Des McAnuff was artistic director and Cimolino held the head administrative position – the Stratford, Ont., festival announced its lowest attendance figures since 1986 and a deficit of $3.4-million, the biggest in its history, even adjusting for inflation.”
Madonna Was The Highest-Paid Musician In 2013
“The bulk of Madge’s millions came from the tail end of her MDNA Tour, which grossed $305 million. She augments her income with heady merchandise sales at concerts, as well as her Material Girl clothing line and Truth or Dare fragrance.”
The Kimbell’s New Extension – Piano, Piano!
“With his $135 million addition to the Kimbell Art Museum here, Mr. Piano has topped his own track record for sensitive responses to someone else’s work of genius. He should stop now and concentrate exclusively on his own architecture.”
The Kimbell – Art Competing With Itself
“Just as architecture aficionados will inevitably compare the physical attributes of Mr. Piano’s pavilion with those of its acclaimed 1972 sister structure, so museumgoers are likely to compare how art is experienced in the two buildings.”