With a redesigned logo unveiled Monday, “[t]he network — known more for its scripted reality show programming these days than the music videos and industry it revolutionized — dropped the ‘Music Television’ tagline from the Frank Olinsky-designed original.”
Author: Laura Collins Hughes
Long-Lost Prokofiev Music Gets New York Premiere
“When it comes to the music of Prokofiev, pianist and Yale University professor Boris Berman is the go-to guy. He’s recorded the composer’s complete piano works, written a book about his sonatas and founded the Prokofiev Society of America. Still, until recently, Berman had never seen or heard Music for Athletic Exercises.“
A Math Prof’s Digital Method For Flagging Suspect Art
“Until now, [Dartmouth College mathematics department Chairman Daniel] Rockmore has only tested his program on Bruegel drawings, but he says there is no reason it could not be used for other artists. While it can identify suspicious works, it cannot definitively prove that they are fake.”
How DC-Area Arts Groups Weathered The Storm
“Many of the city’s museums and theaters went dark over the weekend” as the mammoth snowstorm struck, but the Newseum remained open, and “despite the snowdrifts and lack of public transportation, the show did go on at a few area venues.” So did some rehearsals.
Review: Dante’s Inferno, The Video Game
“There is no reason this game could not be set in any of the hundreds or thousands of generic hells that have hosted video games over the years. What Electronic Arts has done, quite transparently, is appropriate Dante’s brand to use as a light marketing skin on top of the God of War clone the company so clearly wanted to make.”
Maestro Is Pittsburgh’s Ambassador To Foreign Businesses
“When Pittsburgh tries to lure a foreign company, it often turns to maestro Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra to close the deal. … For foreign executives, the orchestra adds a touch of sophistication to a city many still associate with smokestacks.”
Ohad Naharin’s Counsel To Critics
“Don’t let a point of reference prevent you from having a moment of a fresh new experience,” he advises. And: “Connect to physical pleasures of life.”
Performance Art Piece: Marrying A Stranger, For Real
Orlando performance artist Brian Feldman “has a pretty strong motivation for marrying a woman he doesn’t know. … He’s trying to point out the craziness of a state system that will allow near-strangers to marry, as long as they’re of opposite sexes, but will not allow marriages for committed partners of the same sex.”
Brooklyn Cultural District Construction To Begin
“The projects include the long-awaited new building for Theatre for a New Audience; a renovation of the Strand Theater building; [and] a third theater venue for BAM…. But the nascent arts neighborhood has had so many setbacks, it’s easy to question whether these projects will be completed as scheduled, especially during a major recession.”
Stew And Heidi Write A Show (About Their Breakup)
Heidi Rodewald and Stew split up before their musical, “Passing Strange,” got to Broadway. A year after it closed, “Stew starts writing breakup songs. His friends tell him they’re great, but you know what would be really great? Have Heidi sing about her side of things.” Now St. Ann’s Warehouse is staging the new show.