“The Phil has seen attendance gains early in Dudamel’s tenure. Its tax returns document a 21% overall increase in ticket sales for orchestral performances in L.A. over his first two seasons — although he does not conduct every performance.”
Tag: 11.26.12
The Internet Doesn’t Make Us More Independent – Just More Conforming
“The internet isn’t just a matrix of a squillion numbers meshed in fibre optics; it’s a network of billions of human beings, most of whom spend a lot of time terribly frightened of being lonely and left out and who are prepared to do a lot of things they aren’t proud of to allay those fears. That’s the terrifying power of the social network.”
Independent Bookstore Owners Seem More Optimistic
“This year, the mood seems to be lifting, and a lot of booksellers are feeling optimistic.”
Why Doesn’t Contemporary Music’s Biggest Prize Have More Impact?
“While regrettably there are fewer fans of contemporary music than sports of any kind in this country or probably anywhere else in the world, the Grawemeyer has also yet to be as widely an acknowledged accolade–even among new music aficionados–as other honors like the annual Pulitzer Prize.”
The Age Of Twitter Libel Liability
“What if you tweet something defamatory and then quickly delete it and follow it up with a correction? In most states, withdrawing your tweet won’t affect the viability of a libel claim against you, but it might affect the amount of damages that can be sought from you.”
Age Of The Supercut
“As YouTube crawlers well know, the supercut strings together rapid-fire, out-of-context movie or TV scenes to create a sort of video essay.”
Shocking: Former Oxford English Dictionary Editor Deleted Thousands Of “Foreign” Words
“This is really shocking. If a word gets into the OED, it never leaves. If it becomes obsolete, we put a dagger beside it, but it never leaves.”
Danny Boyle’s Olympic Ceremony, Nick Hytner Lead Evening Standard Theatre Awards
“The team behind the Olympic opening ceremony, led by director Danny Boyle, was honoured at the Evening Standard theatre awards on Sunday night, winning the second Beyond Theatre award … Elsewhere, it was [National Theatre director] Nicholas Hytner’s night.”
Sacked Director Ken Gass To Revive Defunct Canadian Rep Theatre
“Ousted Toronto theatre director Ken Gass has unveiled plans for relaunching his long-dormant Canadian Rep Theatre with productions of plays pulled from the Factory Theatre during a boycott. The Factory Theatre fired Gass last summer in a dispute over renovations to its downtown building.”
Five Things People Misunderstand About The Bible
“One of the greatest challenges for modern readers of the Hebrew Bible is to allow the text to mean what it says, when what is says flies in the face of doctrines that emerged centuries later from philosophical debates about the abstract category ‘God’.” (What’s more, it’s not actually a book; it’s more like a library.)