“The appointment of a new concertmaster is always a landmark in the life of an orchestra, but for the DSO the stakes are even higher. A standout hire would signal an artistic and psychological turning point in the drive to rebuild the ranks after last season’s tumultuous strike.”
Month: May 2012
Nasher Sculpture Center’s Glare Problem Has Dallas All Heated Up
The glass skin of the condo tower going up near the museum “now reflects so much light that it is threatening artworks in the galleries, burning the plants in the center’s garden and blinding visitors with its glare. No one quite knows what to do. The condo developer and museum officials are at loggerheads. Fingers are being pointed. [Nasher architect Renzo] Piano is furious. The developer’s architect is aggrieved. The mayor is involved.”
Met Opera Pressures Radio Station To Axe Blog Critical Of Ring; Radio Station Caves
“WQXR pulled a blog posting critical of the Metropolitan Opera’s new Ring cycle last month after the Met’s general manager, Peter Gelb, personally complained to the radio station’s top executive.”
So What Did This Supposedly Terrible Blog Post About The Met Ring Really Say?
“Though [the] post has been scrubbed from the WQXR site, a cached version can be viewed here as a PDF. La Cieca invites the cher public to decide for themselves whether the piece was inflammatory enough to provoke an act of what can only be called censorship.”
WQXR: We Can’t Criticize The Met Ring, But You Certainly Can
“If you’ve attended the Ring this season at the Met, or have seen one of the HD broadcasts, give us your review below. Once the Ring concludes, we’ll post a final collective article with your opinions.”
BalletMet Columbus’s Artistic Director Decamps For Joffrey
“Gerard Charles, artistic director of BalletMet Columbus, will leave in July to become Ballet Master of Chicago’s renowned Joffrey Ballet.”
Okay, So Shakespeare Wrote Shakespeare’s Plays – But Probably Not Alone
“While the name of William Shakespeare is slapped ever more enthusiastically across theatre posters and radio and TV billings, universities are reducing the size of his typeface to make space for collaborators: most recently, the suggestion that Thomas Middleton wrote significant sections of All’s Well That End’s Well.”
‘The Yiddish Shakespeare’
“Although Jacob Gordin (1853-1909) was Russian, and his literary sources were indeed extremely well known, he himself was not particularly famous. Gordin became better known after he derived some of his plots and characters from Tolstoy and Turgenev … for theater audiences on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, transforming himself from journalist and religious reformer into a playwright who was actually famous.”
Why Do Lovers Of Literature Love Beating Up On Critics So Much?
“From Henry James to Heidi Julavitis, writers seem to delight in publishing manifestos that outline the book review’s shortcomings and inadequacies.”
The Greatest Author-vs.-Critic Feuds Of All Time
“The face-slaps, spitting contests, and pie fights that occur when one author turns his pen on another.”