“Mr. Mankell, whose grandfather was a composer, passed on his love of classical music to his famous detective. Wallander spends many lonely nights listening to Mozart operas or walking the windswept beaches of Ystad with his dog, Jussi — named after Jussi Bjorling, the great Swedish tenor.”
Month: October 2015
St. Ann’s Warehouse Gets A Permanent Home
“The pliancy of the space was essential to Ms. Feldman — keeping the Civil War-era warehouse wide open, using curtains to adjust the stage into different shapes and sizes. ‘We wanted to recreate that same flexibility that seemed to be the thing that made St. Ann’s useful for the last 36 years in New York,’ Ms. Feldman said.”
Ai Weiwei Returns To China And His Studio, Where He Finds ‘Listening Devices’
“In a video posted on Instagram, someone sets off firecrackers in a bin next to the device. The accompanying text reads: ‘Can you hear this?'”
Rescuing William Butler Yeats’ Magic Tower House
“The Irish Republican Army arrived one day to announce that the bridge beside the tower was about to be blown up, and to suggest that Yeats’s wife take the children and maid upstairs for their safety.”
ISIS Has Destroyed Another Piece Of Ancient Architecture In Palmyra
“The Arch of Triumph was one of the most recognizable sites in Palmyra, the central city affectionately known by Syrians as the “Bride of the Desert,” which the IS group seized in May. The monumental arch sat atop the famed colonnaded streets of the ancient city, which linked the Roman Empire to Persia and the East.”
The Bizarre, Decaying Postmodern Suburbs Of Eastern Paris
They’re one of the settings for the final installment of The Hunger Games for a reason.
What In The Hell Is Going On At Carnegie Hall?
“Mr. Perelman is stepping down this week as Carnegie’s chairman after just eight months; Mr. Gillinson remains in charge but under an internal investigation; and Carnegie, the most important concert hall in the nation, if not the world, finds itself facing an unusual public crisis in the midst of a $125 million fund-raising drive. It is not how the hall expected to be starting an anniversary season.”
The Digital Pipe Organ Revolution
“‘The instrument I’m most interested in building is the one I hear in my head,’ said Marshall, a quiet man given to sturdy shoes and holstering his smartphone on a belt. ‘To be able to go in any direction — as far as the mind can dream.'”
Staging A Musical With Deaf Actors
“For this ‘Spring Awakening,’ the director Michael Arden, the choreographer Spencer Liff and the actors themselves have devised an array of silent cues: hidden lights, coded gestures, timed touches and prompting props.”
How Eileen Myles Became Such A Cult Favorite
“Somebody asked me for poems for an anthology of American female poets to be published in Italy. It was very easy to think about which poems of mine I would like to see translated into Italian. The kind of vernacular poetry I write, it’s like those candies that burst when you put them in your mouth, so I thought about which ones would burst well in Italian.”