The piano competition is undergoing a “a top to bottom evaluation” of its operations and is temporarily putting on hold all activities, even outreach programs such as “Hammers, Strings & Keys.” The reason, is to “have time to seriously consider the most appropriate sustainable artistic and economic model going forward.”
Tag: 12.10.15
Top Posts From AJBlogs 12.10.15
Place, process and making your own reservation
When we asked Chief Executive Program: Community and Culture leaders what they saw as the most pressing issues in their field, many told us that they’d like to address the siloization of arts in communities … read more
AJBlog: Field Notes Published 2015-12-10
Beyond Financials
How might we, as leaders in the cultural sector, be critical, formative drivers of building the vision for a new economy? … read more
AJBlog: Field Notes Published 2015-12-10
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Mattiwilda Dobbs, 90, Pathbreaking African-American Opera Star
“Like many African American opera singers … she was first fully recognized for her talent not in the United States, but rather in Europe – an ocean away from the Jim Crow South where she had grown up.” In 1953, she became the first black singer in a principal role at La Scala; in 1956, she was the first African-American cast as a romantic lead – Gilda in Rigoletto, which she sang in whiteface – at the Met.
A Pop-Up Ballet On Denver Airport’s Moving Walkways
“The State Street Ballet, from Santa Barbara, California, was traveling from Spokane, Washington to Durango for their performance of The Nutcracker when they found themselves with a five-hour layover with nothing to do.” When they posted the video on Facebook, it got 1.8 million views in under an hour.”
New York’s Latest Hip Classical Venue? A Crypt In Harlem
“If Le Poisson Rouge is cool and Roulette is edgy among New York’s alternative venues, where does that put the crypt at the Church of the Intercession at 155th Street and Broadway? Slightly underground, with a performance area framed by discreet stained glass, dramatically vaulted ceiling and intimate seating capacity for 100, in the inaugural season of The Crypt Sessions.”
Here Are The Opera News Award Winners For 2016
The honorees include three singers now at the peak of their careers – Anna Netrebko, Joseph Calleja, Elīna Garanča – and two revered veterans, Waltraud Meier and José van Dam.
How Karl Ove Knausgaard Writes Like A Woman
“We, all of us, men and women, encode masculinity and femininity in implicit metaphorical schemas that divide the world in half. Science and mathematics are hard, rational, real, serious, and masculine. Literature and art are soft, emotional, unreal, frivolous, and feminine.” Siri Hustvedt, who is both a novelist and a science writer, looks at that division, the ways Knausgaard’s My Struggle crosses it, and how that affects the way he is seen as a writer.
Helvetica Man: How The Universal Symbols For Escalators, Restrooms, And Airports Were Designed
“Today, travelers rushing through an airport or pausing at a roadside rest stop barely notice the standard symbols that direct the flow of human traffic. The little rounded man indicating the restroom and his female partner with her triangular dress are too familiar to think twice about. The same goes for the ubiquitous No Smoking logo and the knife and fork symbol that point towards dinner.” Their origin goes back to the U.S. Bicentennial celebrations in 1976.
How Are England’s Theatres Doing After Years Of Funding Cuts? Here’s A Dig Into The Data (And An Amazing Surprise)
Comparing Arts Council England data from the seasons 2009-10 and 2014-15, the drop in government funding, especially from local authorities, has been even worse than you think – and the way theatres have coped is even better than you think.
Peter Sellars To Direct 2016 Ojai Festival
Kaija Saariaho will be the featured composer: Sellars will stage Only the Sound Remains, her setting of Ezra Pound’s adaptation of two Noh plays, and the chamber version of La Passion de Simone. Also planned are works by Caroline Shaw and Tania León, Tyshawn Sorey’s new Josephine Baker: A Personal Portrait, performances by Egyptian and South Indian classical vocalists, and – for the first time at Ojai – free concerts for families.