“Has dance simply caved into the wider, sexist culture, or are there specific issues affecting the profession right now? And is this apparent marginalisation something women have chosen – or has it been foisted on them?”
Author: Laura Collins Hughes
Lighting Designer Michael Philippi Dies At 58
“Michael Philippi, a gifted lighting designer whose roots went to the very core of the Chicago theater and who collaborated with Goodman artistic director Robert Falls on his most important projects, collapsed and died Tuesday afternoon on a sidewalk in downtown Chicago.”
Met Opera Staffer Named Director Of Grant Park Festival
“Elizabeth Hurley, development director at the Metropolitan Opera in New York and former vice president for development at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, has been named executive director of the Grant Park Music Festival, effective Dec. 7.”
Another Popular Unlawful Activity: Copying Library CDs
“Angela Washelesky, a partner at Reed Smith who heads that law firm’s trademark practice in its Chicago office, called ripping library CDs ‘total and complete copyright infringement. The fine for that kind of thing is $250,000 per copyrighted work. It is amazing to me that people do not know this.'”
UK Sets A Date To Cut Off Illegal File-Sharers
“The Business Secretary, speaking at the digital creative industries conference c&binet, said that if the amount of illegal file-sharing taking place in the UK hadn’t dropped by 70 per cent a year on from April 2010 measures to cut off file-sharers’ connections would come into place from July 2011.”
Explaining The Urge To Attack Works Of Art
“Of the woman who kissed a canvas to ‘warm it up’ we can say at least she is not as dangerous as the man who deliberately ingested different food colouring to vomit in spectacular colours on canvases of his choice…. What makes an otherwise stupid act of vandalism interesting is the reason given in justification.”
What’s Wrong With Booksellers’ Price-War Complaint
“The ABA does its members no favors by painting them as helpless victims, undone because Amazon, Wal-Mart, and Target are discounting some popular books. Perhaps the ABA should remind itself that the best neighborhood booksellers inspire affection and allegiance from customers that no online superstore can match.”
Why Orchestras Aren’t The Best Business Model To Emulate
“[T]o hold up orchestras, and their relationship with conductors, as a business model is to subscribe to an idealized view of classical music as a happy sphere of beautiful golden tones. It doesn’t reflect most orchestras’ reality. Orchestras are notoriously dysfunctional places….”
United Way Will Find, Train NYC Board Members
“The program, called BoardServeNYC, is hoping to train 500 volunteers in nonprofit governance each year and then connect those volunteers with nonprofits seeking new directors.” The need is in “the more than 8,000 smaller nonprofits, particularly those located outside of Manhattan.”
Latest Google Option: A Music Search
“The new service will be featured within a standard Google search. Just enter the name of the band or musician, then things like bios, videos and images pop up. Google itself is not selling the music.”