When Dudamel conducts an orchestra these days, he feels a ghost at his shoulder. The ghost belongs to his mentor, the Venezuelan conductor and educator José Antonio Abreu, who gave him both his musical training and his philosophy of life, and who had died just a few weeks earlier, in March, at age 78. “I lost Maestro physically,” Dudamel says, “but every time I do this” — he raises his hands as if he’s about to conduct — “a levare, to the orchestra, he’s there. He’s in the sound. I can hear him all of the time.”
Author: Douglas McLennan
Toronto’s Tafelmusik Posts 18th Balanced Budget
Announced at Tafelmusik’s Annual General Meeting yesterday, Canada’s largest period orchestra and choir have reported a consecutive operating surplus of $51,000. Tafelmusik also achieved their highest subscription revenue in five years, and the second-highest number of single tickets sold in the orchestra’s history. The results represent overall concert revenues of almost $1.9 million and an increase of 12% over the 2017 fiscal year.
So How Do You Measure The Impact Of Your Work As An Artist?
“Unlike arts organizations that might have resources for evaluating the impact of their programs, individual artists often lack the capacity to measure how their projects drive social change. They are active. They are doing the work. Providing independent artists with clear content for their own advocacy, and boosting their own research capacities, is vitally important to driving evidence-based practice in the field. I know this because I am one of them.”
How Calder Became Calder
“Most architects and city planners,” Calder told a friend, “want to put my objects in front of trees or greenery. They make a huge error. My mobiles and stabiles ought to be placed in free spaces, like public squares, or in front of modern buildings, and that is true of all contemporary sculpture.”
Kimerly Rorschach To Step Down As Head Of Seattle Art Museum
SAM is the final stop in her 25-year museum career, which also included directorships at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University and the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago.
Study: Micro-doses Of Psychedelics May Enhance Creativity
Participants in a small-scale study scored higher on two measures of creativity after swallowing a tiny serving of hallucinogenic truffles—about one-tenth of a recreational dose. The drug did not stimulate similar improvement in an intelligence test, suggesting that its effects may be limited to enhancing innovation.
Myths Of The Gig Economy
he gig economy has not only turned millions of Americans into contractors, but it’s given the more successful entrepreneurs the tools to grow even faster. A fast-moving startup can secure talent as it needs it, outsource more quotidian tasks like payroll, and stay lean and mean; indeed, I see entrepreneurs employ this approach through my work at EY supporting creative, successful startups. But there are lots of myths about gig work, whether full-time or part time.
Colleges Go On The Offensive To Recruit Humanities Students For Lagging Programs
To avoid further slippage in humanities majors, elite colleges and universities have resorted to an all-out campaign to persuade students that such degrees aren’t just tickets to jobs as bartenders and Starbucks baristas. Colleges are starting early with that push.
Los Angeles Film Festival To Shut Down After 18 Years
The surprise announcement landed via a press release on Wednesday, a little over a month after the completion of this year’s festival. That event, which concluded Sept. 28, was the first to occupy a fall calendar slot after a longtime home in the summer. The shift put the event into more direct competition with other festivals in an already crowded fall space, including the established AFI Fest in Los Angeles.
Yeah, The Art World Is A Cesspool. I Still Love It
“I hate this toxic rot and junkie-like behavior. Yet I love art and the art world. I hate the portrait of that world contained in this movie, but I also recognize in it what I love.”