With funding provided by San Francisco-based organizations, Zoë Madonna, who won the 2014 Rubin Prize in Music Criticism at the Institute, starts a 10-month post as classical music critic at the Globe on Monday, corresponding with a temporary leave by Globe critic Jeremy Eichler, who is now a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard.
Author: Douglas McLennan
London Now Has Audiophile Clubs Where You Can Hear Recordings At The Highest Quality Possible
“These speakers were built totally without compromise. When you have equipment this good, it can deliver such high quality that it emotionally connects you to the music. We’re not afraid to say that listening to music is a very magical thing.”
For The Seventh Year, National Ballet Of Canada Posts Surplus
The company had 2,277 performances and outreach events in the 2015/16 season with a total attendance of 918,131. There were77 performances at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts with 141,146 in attendance and 2,190 community events reaching 760,413 young people and their families.
It’s Canada’s Richest Prize, And This Outside-The-Mainstream Director Just Won It
The Siminovitch, the richest prize in Canadian theatre, is awarded on a three-year cycle to directors, playwrights and designers – and Nadia Ross’s win in a year dedicated to direction is certainly an encouraging one for Canadian theatre artists whose practice doesn’t neatly fall into those categories, or, indeed, the mainstream definition of “theatre.”
Meeting The Enemy In Virtual Reality – Art And VR As An Affecting Means Of Communicating
It holds the promise of opening up new frontiers for the integration of journalism and art in a socially oriented 21st-century performance piece poised at technology’s cutting edge.
Another Strong Earthquake In Italy Brings Down A Historic Church
“The earthquake, the most powerful to hit the country since 1980, has brought devastation to areas that were already damaged by the 6.2-magnitude earthquake of 24 August, which killed almost 300 people. No further deaths have been reported in the recent wave of seismic activity. The latest disaster follows a pair of tremors (5.4- and 5.9-magnitude) in quick succession on 26 October.”
Atlanta Symphony Raises $25M Two Years Ahead Of Schedule, Expands Orchestra To 88 Players
The endowment fund had a four-year goal to reach $25 million, the life of the current labor agreement with the musicians. Instead, the endowment goal was reached in two years. Over the past year, nine new musicians have joined the orchestra.
The Power Of “Showing Off” (And What It Means)
“Consider then what is meant by ‘showing off’. We use this phrase to designate behaving in a way intended to attract admiration. Showing off is not just doing something well before an audience. Jacqueline du Pré doing Elgar is not showing off. She is performing, playing cello before an audience. What distinguishes showing off is the intention behind the deed. When I show off, I do something for the reason that I want to attract your admiration. When we deem others to be showing off we make those judgments within a context of intricate sets of meanings. These are at best provisional and changing, and so too are the possible meanings we live out in our daily lives.”
A Rare Cultural Glimpse Inside North Korea
The Munich Chamber Orchestra visits North Korea and makes a film about the experience. Life in the North is regimented and looks, in this video – a bit grim. But then, maybe that’s one reason the North Korean musicians seen here seem so passionate about the music they make.
So What Does It Mean To Be A Public Intellectual? It’s A Very Difficult Road To Walk
“A social category so pure and idealized will be both immensely irritating and fatally ineffective. All intellectuals will appear tainted as soon as one pauses to examine how they put bread on their table, with whom they play golf, and how they fund their projects. No critic can be truly independent of his or her society, and in pretending that one can, we set ourselves up for disillusionment.”