L’Association Professionnelle de la Critique de Théâtre, de Musique et de Danse, a group of 140 French and international journalists, named the Toronto-based troupe Best Company of the Year on Monday for its performance of Nijinsky at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées.
Author: Douglas McLennan
Infamous Fyre Festival Organizer Commits More Fraud, Has Bail Revoked
Last week, the Fyre Festival “organizer” was caught allegedly selling fake tickets to events like Coachella and Burning Man—and this is after he plead guilty in March to fraudulently recruiting 80 investors to hand over $26 million for his infamously disastrous music festival.
World Health Organization Classifies Video Game Addiction As A Disorder
The 11th International Classification of Diseases (ICD) will include the condition “gaming disorder”. The draft document describes it as a pattern of persistent or recurrent gaming behaviour so severe that it takes “precedence over other life interests”. Some countries had already identified it as a major public health issue.
Proposed EU Copyright Law Alarms Free Speech Advocates
By requiring Internet platforms to perform automatic filtering all of the content that their users upload, Article 13 takes an unprecedented step towards the transformation of the Internet from an open platform for sharing and innovation, into a tool for the automated surveillance and control of its users. The damage that this may do to the free and open Internet as we know it is hard to predict, but in our opinions could be substantial.
AI Debates Humans… And Wins
IBM’s Project Debater sparred with two world-class human debaters in front of an audience, which later ranked each debater’s performance. Based on voting, the first debate was a wash. But in the second, the computer changed the minds of nine undecided audience members, while its human opponent didn’t change any. It even cracked some self-deprecating jokes about its artificial nature along the way.
I Was Almost Never Asked To Review Books By Women. Why?
“Besides embarrassment, I also feel curiosity. What could explain the strange fact that it took seven years for an editor to assign me a female writer? I’m a liberal critic writing for liberal publications. How did this go on for so long? I suspect there are at least two possible explanations here.”
A Devoted Reader Breaks Up With James Joyce
In many ways, Joyce has been my longest long-term relationship. We met when I was sixteen and have been sweethearts ever since. I would have liked to say that about a living man, the way famous writers do in their acknowledgements of their latest novel, thanking their ‘loving husband, without whose unceasing patience and support etc,etc’. For years I thought it was their fault – the blokes. Until I realised how annoying it must be to live in the shadow of another man, and a dead one at that.
Celebrated Children’s Book Writer Slams Publishers For Their Language Obsessions
Geraldine McCaughrean was named winner on Monday of this year’s CILIP Carnegie medal for her historical adventure novel Where the World Ends, 30 years after she first took the prize, the UK’s most esteemed children’s literature award. She used her winner’s speech to attack publishers’ fixation on accessible language, which she called “a euphemism for something desperate”.
Battle For A Vision Of The Future Of Orchestras
“Our thesis for a lot of this work is that there is no future without the past,” Andrew Balio tells me. “I don’t think that’s a controversial statement.” He’s correct, and there’s no doubt that the Future Symphony Institute was born out of a real love for, and desire to share, the rich tradition of classical music. What the genre—and the wider arts world—found itself facing in the 20th century, however, was a challenging of the notion of a singular beauty, and a distrust of its pursuit.
Peter Oundjian Talks About His Toronto Symphony Years: The TSO Is Underrated
With some of Karajan’s advice in mind (“guide the orchestra, don’t impose yourself”) Oundjian steadily rebuilt the band while adding big late- and post-romantic scores to his personal repertoire. More than half of TSO players, and two-thirds of principals, are Oundjian picks. While few would question Oundjian’s authority in choosing strings, he seems also to have an ear for wind, brass and percussion, and how they work together.