“The digital transformation is happening quicker than it happened for music. Are there some people who would prefer it not to be happening? Of course there are. But it’s creating lots of innovation.”
Month: May 2012
What Non-Profit Arts Might Learn From For-Profits
“Suggesting to the nonprofit sector they might learn something by studying the habits of their for-profit brethren is a bit like suggesting a priest might want to learn something from a rock and roll promoter. It upsets people. But who knows? Maybe the priest should take a gander at the fellow in the next auditorium.”
Study: Music Training For Infants Helps Development
“After participation in active music classes, infants showed much lower levels of distress when confronted with novel stimuli than after participation in passive music classes.”
Spanish Leftists Accuse Santiago Calatrava Of ‘Bleeding Valencia Dry’
Opponents of the region’s conservative-led government have launched a website – called “calatravatelaclava (“Calatrava bleeds you dry”) – on which they criticize what they see as the starchitect’s exorbitant design fees for Valencia’s futuristic City of Arts and Sciences.
NY City Ballet May Be Getting Too Pricey For Its Summer Hosts In Saratoga
“As the cost of hosting a two-week New York City Ballet season approaches the 2008 price of a three-week season, Saratoga Performing Arts Center’s outgoing chairman this morning hinted that the organization may need to turn to other ballet companies to fill next year’s season.”
Tampa Bay Arts Center’s New Chief Has Big Plans – $20M Worth
“Ruth Eckerd Hall has a new chief executive who likes to think big. In his first major fundraising effort, Zev Buffman seeks not only to upgrade the popular performing arts center but also to energize a stalled project to renovate the downtown Capitol Theatre.”
Chicago Symphony To Make Debuts In Korea, Taiwan, Mexico
“Continuing the emphasis on international touring that has been an early hallmark of the Riccardo Muti era, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra will make its debut in Mexico next season as well as visit Taiwan and Korea for the first time as part of an extensive Far East tour.”
The English Civil War (About Language) – Descriptivists Vs. Prescriptivists
“For a long time, many English speakers have felt that the language was going to the dogs. All around them, people were talking about ‘parameters’ and ‘life styles,’ saying ‘disinterested’ when they meant ‘uninterested,’ ‘fulsome’ when they meant ‘full.’ … To others, the complainers were fogies and snobs. The usages they objected to were cause not for grief but for celebration. They were pulsings of our linguistic lifeblood, proof that English was large, contained multitudes.”
Roman Polanski To Make Dreyfus Affair Film
“Roman Polanski, a director who has had extensive personal experience with a justice system he and supporters believe wronged him, will make a movie about another exceptionally high-profile trial: the Dreyfus affair” – a story he has reportedly wanted to film for many years. (Please tell us Polanski doesn’t identify.)
Broadway’s Leap Of Faith Never Had A Prayer
“The musical, about a phony evangelist who experiences a spiritual conversion during his latest con, struggled from its first preview performance, on April 3, with the creative team meeting daily to concoct changes to overcome some toxic word of mouth.” Despite harsh reviews, Leap of Faith received a Best Musical Tony nomination – but even that wasn’t enough …