“The audience took a collective breath when Baryshnikov first appeared on stage. He looks not the athlete he once was but a gaunt, bedraggled traveler, suitcase in hand, seated on a wooden bench below the broken fuse of a dilapidated Art Deco apartment with large, dusty window panes.”
Tag: 12.01.15
The 15 Seconds That Will Decide Your Orchestra Career
“If you want to absolutely precise, it boils down to about 15 seconds. We can tell with a pretty high degree of accuracy what kind of a player you are within the first 15 to 30 seconds. The rest of the time, we’re there to make sure that our initial assessment was correct.”
Translate: An Unusually High Number Of Translated Books Have Made This Year’s Top Critics Lists
The 13 translated works on this year’s NYT list mark a 62.5 percent increase over last year’s numbers.
The World’s First Computer-Generated Musical
“They have become brilliant at chess, had music performed by one of the world’s leading orchestras and seen their art enter major collections. But could a computer also generate a hit West End musical? The answer may be provided next year with the announcement of the world’s first computer musical, getting a run at the Arts Theatre accompanied by a TV series on Sky Arts.” (The music composition software used is called Android Lloyd Webber.)
Ballet San Antonio Names Artistic Director
“Ballet San Antonio has named ballet master Willy Shives, who has spent the past 16 years with the famed Joffrey Ballet in Chicago, as its new artistic director. Shives succeeds Gabriel Zertuche, who left the company in August alongside Executive Director Courtney Mauro Barker.”
Why Real Sex In Fiction Films Just Doesn’t Work
“The question we should ideally always be asking in a drama – I wonder what would it feel like to be that character in that situation? – is suddenly replaced by a less helpful (and essentially pornographic) one: what might it feel like to be the actor doing that or having that done to them? “
Germany’s Top Movie Comedy Right Now Is A Spoof Of Hitler
“Based on a best-selling 2012 novel, Er ist wieder da (‘Look Who’s Back’) imagines what it would be like if Hitler woke up in modern Germany and morphed into a media sensation. … Predictably, the movie has also raised a debate over what role – if any – the infamous Nazi ruler should play in popular culture.”
Behavioral Science Is Trying To Explain Your Taste In Art
“Art Basel-goers would surely love to believe that they, and they alone, are responsible for their impeccable taste in art. But recently, researchers have begun to study the neurological and psychological underpinnings that help explain why you may love an abstract Cy Twombly drawing, but your friend thinks it looks like a bunch of scribbles his toddler made.”
Senate Committee To Investigate Collectors’ Private Museums
“[R]ecent reports have raised the possibility that some private foundations are operating museums that offer minimal benefit to the public while enabling donors to reap substantial tax advantages,” Senator Hatch wrote in his letter.
Are Our Novels Getting More Conventional?
“Even beyond financial questions I would argue that there is a growing resistance at every level to taking risks in novel writing, a tendency that is in line with the more general and ever increasing anxious desire to receive positive feedback, or at least not negative feedback, about almost everything we do, constantly and instantly.”