He’s Scott Altman, currently ED of Ballet West. “The executive director position has been vacant since Paul Kaine left the company in April 2008. Soon after, Victoria Morgan added the CEO role to her artistic responsibilities. In the course of one year, Morgan, working with staff and board, eliminated an $800,000 deficit. Since then, the company’s annual ticket revenue has grown more than 70 percent, while attendance has climbed nearly 30 percent. The company’s endowment, just $1 million when Morgan became CEO, is now $11 million.”
Month: July 2016
Musician Payments For Streaming Are A Mess. So Apple Has A Plan (But…)
“Apple recently made a proposal that could fundamentally transform the way streaming services pay songwriters and music publishers. As part of a government rate-setting process known as the Copyright Royalty Board tribunal (CRB), Apple recommended that services pay a fixed penny rate per stream. This structure is a major departure from the way streaming services have traditionally paid royalties. Moving to a penny rate would be a tremendous step toward transparency in music publishing. But be careful of the fine print.”
Prominent de Young Museum Board Chair Resigns Over Investigations Into Museum Spending
Dede Wilsey, longtime head of the board that runs the de Young Museum and Legion of Honor in San Francisco, is giving up her top spot after the museums paid a $2 million settlement to a former high-ranking executive who said Wilsey had her ousted for revealing alleged misspending of museum money.
Unmentionables: Euphemisms Are Like Underwear, Best Changed Frequently
John McWhorter: “What the cognitive psychologist and linguist Steven Pinker has artfully termed ‘the euphemism treadmill’ is not a tic or a stunt. It is an inevitable and, more to the point, healthy process, necessary in view of the eternal gulf between language and opinion.”
Many Of Us Are Trying To Improve Ourselves. Scientists Wonder It It’s Possible…
“Each year, Americans spend billions of dollars on self-improvement books, CDs, seminars, coaching, and stress-management programs to become better, more sociable, effective, compassionate, and charismatic versions of themselves. But beneath theories on what drives people to change, there’s a more fundamental question debated by psychologists: Can personality even be changed in the first place?”
What Should You Wear To A Classical Concert? Advice For Guys
The beginning and end of this article really do offer some useful counsel for the unsure. But then there’s this:
“I’m terrible at giving dress advice to women. So I asked one.
‘I don’t know, wear a shirt I guess. Why are you asking me this … ?'”
Libraries Are Changing Quickly. And To Be A Librarian These Days Is To Imagine A New Role
“Though the occupation is only expected to grow by 2 percent from 2014 to 2024, many librarians have forgone bookkeeping and cataloging for specializing in multimedia and taking on research- and technology-oriented projects such as digitizing archives.”
Is Watching Women’s Gymnastics As Morally Fraught As With Boxing And NFL Football?
Boxing and (especially) American football have long histories and devoted fans, but there’s more and more unease as awareness grows of the brain damage athletes in those sports can sustain. Since gymnastics became popular in the 1970s, “we know more … the sport’s history of sexual and emotional abuse, its amplifications of adolescent body-image problems, and its complicated coach-gymnast relationships. The sport’s obsessive focus on the body and self-presentation is like kerosene poured on the flame of female adolescent self-scrutiny.”
What Are The Most Popular Songs Right Now? It’s Increasingly Difficult To Tell
Stream, steal, or buy: Those are your choices. The premium streaming services represent just one batch of countless channels by which consumers can hear music. And so Billboard now bears the complex task of incorporating traffic from an ever-widening variety of platforms — YouTube, Vevo, Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal, Pandora, Vine, Twitter, etc. — into a standardized accounting that ranks all these songs together.
Diversity-In-Casting Arguments Crop Up Again, This Time Over A Concert Performance
The project in question is the in-progress stage adaptation of the 1998 Dreamworks animated feature The Prince of Egypt, about the life of Moses. The script and score will get their first public reading in a free outdoor performance next month on Long Island, and a social media fracas broke out over the false impression that the cast for the reading is all-white. (In fact, five out of the 15 Equity performers currently engaged are nonwhite.)