“While it doesn’t provide a definitive answer, new research from Germany presents evidence that improved academic performance truly is a result of musical training.”
Tag: 12.03.13
Donmar Warehouse Settle Suit By Blinded Actor
“Actor David Birrell has received ‘substantial’ damages after he was blinded in his right eye when a prop gun misfired during an onstage duel at the Donmar Warehouse” in 2010.
The Bolshoi, Where Ballet Actually Means Life And Death
Judith Mackrell reviews the bizarre and dramatic backstage saga at the theater that (probably hasn’t) ended with the guilty verdicts in the trial of the men accused of throwing acid into Sergei Filin’s face.
Bob Dylan Charged With ‘Inciting Hate’ Under French Law
“To people who follow the pronouncements of Bob Dylan, his comment in a Rolling Stone interview in September 2012 suggesting that American blacks could sense whether whites had slave-master blood ‘just like Jews can sense Nazi blood and the Serbs can sense Croatian blood’ may have seemed just the sort of vaporously impressionistic, emotionally pointed kind of thing that Mr. Dylan has been known to say for decades.” Some Croatians in France beg to differ.
How Does An Adapter Cram An Epic Novel Onto A Stage?
“Mike Poulton, the man charged with condensing [Hilary Mantel’s] Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies for the Royal Shakespeare Company” and “Geoffrey Beevers, [who] has hacked George Eliot’s Middlemarch (904 pages) into a trilogy for the Orange Tree theatre in London”, try to explain.
With Gifts, It Actually Is The Thought That Counts
Inspired by the ever-tactful Benjamin Netanyahu’s present to Pope Francis of a history of the Spanish Inquisition, Marc Herman considers what studies have shown that givers and receivers think about gifting and re-gifting.
Today In Irony: Banksy’s “Destroy Capitalism” Print Being Sold By Walmart
“For that angsty high schooler in your life, Walmart is now selling a bunch of Banksy knockoffs. Most ironically, one print is titled, Destroy Capitalism. Another print of a work by street artist Eddie Colla that Walmart mistook for a Banksy featured the words, ‘If you want to achieve greatness, stop asking for permission.'”
Bolshoi Dancer Convicted, Sentenced To Six Years In Acid Attack
“Although the charge carries a maximum of 12 years, state prosecutors had sought nine years for Dmitrichenko, who is best known for his portrayal of villains in Swan Lake and Ivan the Terrible.”