“The American Federation of Musicians and Employers’ Pension Fund (AFM-EPF), which had filed a $35 million claim in the case, will drop all its legal challenges in exchange for $1.75 million from the orchestra. The fund did not immediately respond to a request for comment.”
Month: April 2012
Calls Mount For UK Culture Minister To Resign Over Murdoch Scandals
“Emails released by News Corporation to the Leveson Inquiry on the culture, practice and ethics of the press appeared to show that [minister Jeremy] Hunt’s office gave the media organisation confidential information about its planned takeover of BSkyB.”
Pennsylvania Ballet, At Long Last, Opens Its Own School
“The Pennsylvania Ballet will no longer be the country’s only major ballet company without its own school, the latest pirouette in its remarkable turnaround from the brink of insolvency two decades ago.”
NEA Sharply Cuts Grants To PBS
“The National Endowment for the Arts made sweeping cuts in its support of established PBS shows on Wednesday, and for the first time awarded significant grants to an array of gaming, mobile and Web-based projects.”
Louisville Orchestra And Musicians Agree On One-Year Contract
“After 20 months of contentious negotiations, the Louisville Orchestra’s musicians and its management have reached a one-year labor agreement that will allow for a 30-week season beginning this fall, and both sides are optimistic that a long-term deal will be reached by next spring” under binding arbitration.
Cologne Opera Director Who Threatened To Cancel Season Resigns
Roughly one day after he threatened to call off the entire 2012-13 season because he couldn’t get funding issues worked out with Cologne’s city government, Uwe Eric Laufenberg announced that he would step down as the opera house’s Intendant at the end of that season (which is presumably proceeding as planned), two years before the end of his contract.
Yale Rep Gets $18M To Finance New Plays
“The Yale School of Drama and Yale Repertory Theater announced on Wednesday that they had received an $18 million gift – the largest in their history – to finance the creation of new plays and musicals through commissions to writers, developmental workshops and productions at both Yale Rep and other theaters that stage the work.”
Renzo Piano’s ‘Narcissistic’ Malta Project Under Attack In Parliament
The opposition leader described Piano’s plan for the area around City Gate in Valletta – which includes a new Parliament building already under construction – as a “narcissistic” pet project of the Prime Minister and criticized the €80m venture’s financing.
How The Internet Fails Us (Lewis Lapham Explains It All)
“I’m content to regard the Internet as the best and brightest machine ever made by man, but nonetheless a machine with a tin ear and a wooden tongue.”
What Thinking Feels Like, Depicted On Celluloid
“In her playful film, Lines of Thought, Aldworth attempts to answer a befuddling question: how do you describe how it feels to think? It may seem an impossible task, but Aldworth conveys it perfectly. A fast-moving line flits from place to place in a sketched brain – speeding through neurons, pinging through cortices.”