Given the precarious state of classical music in the market-place, you might think orchestras would exercise some caution in the matter of remuneration. But instead of asking “what can we afford?”, the instinct of players and management is to cast envious glances at their peers among the top-tier orchestras, and ask “are they richer than us?”
Author: Douglas McLennan
Electromagnetic Waves – Seriously? Another Thing About Technology To Be Worried About?
“With the ever-expanding prevalence of electromagnetic field-emitting technological devices, including mobile phones, video screens and Wi-Fi transmitters, a growing number of people claim to be experiencing electromagnetic hypersensitivity (EHS), essentially an allergic reaction to electromagnetic waves.”
Want To Fight Racism? Teach The Humanities
“In particular, it is the humanities that teach us how not to be racists, by showing us how to open ourselves up to what is different. Whether a given humanist is a modernist, postmodernist, New Critic, Marxist, or an adherent of any of dozens of other approaches, what she does in the classroom is always the same: She takes some cultural product that seems at first strange and off-putting — a poem by some ancient Greek or Persian poet, a novel by some African or Chinese author, a statue from an indigenous culture whose true name we don’t even know — and, if she is a good teacher, makes it familiar enough to be interesting.”
End Of An Era: How Neville Marriner And Gordon Davidson Reshaped LA Culture
“The two men didn’t exactly collaborate. Yet both were instrumental in creating an ethos in the early era of the Music Center that’s worth revisiting as the institution, having recently entered into its second half-century, tries to become newly relevant.”
What Does It Take To Sell 10,000 Tickets For Three Days Of Dance In Toronto?
“Of course none of this adjusts for the impact of price or capacity or run length, but 10,000 tickets sure does suggest that dance has a ready-made audience in the city, that dance isn’t just a fringe interest, and that if you advertise well and offer affordable, high-quality material, the demand for dance is there.”
BBC Radio Chief Steps Down And Warns About What Journalism Has Become
“We are unconstrained in our speed of coverage, unmatched in our fleetness of foot but do we lack the depth that we might achieve if we took our foot off the accelerator, or put the handbrake on, and stopped to observe more closely the world on which we are reporting?”
Everyone Is Proclaiming That Hollywood Is Dead. No – It’s Just Adapting
“Cinema remains siloed into “studio” and “indie” efforts, with a good chunk of audiences largely ignoring the latter, while television (which essentially has to be made within a studio system) can offer the kind of adult dramas and politically aware works that are seemingly missing from multiplexes. But these aren’t the signs of a lifeless industry. Film is just doing what it’s always done—finding a way to adapt, survive, and serve new audiences.”
Defunct London Orchestra Musicians Play On Under A New Brand
“When the old Orchestra London’s finances collapsed, its musicians continued to play on in large and small groups. After several variations, the musicians settled on #WePlayOn as a temporary name. Now, a permanent ID is being sought.”
The New Music Coming Out Of Chicago Could Only Have Been Made There
What comes to mind when I describe the character of Chicago new music are words like “provisional” and “transient”and “conditional” and “contingent” and “fragmented.”
Man Who Police Believe Knows Where The Stolen Gardner Museum Art Is Close To Death
“Robert Gentile, 80, had been scheduled to stand trial last month for selling a loaded firearm to a convicted killer, charges his attorney contends were the product of a federal sting operation intended to pressure Gentile into leading agents to paintings stolen in 1990.”