The conductor’s “need for a timeout — for surgery and for recuperation — has put the Met and the Boston Symphony in a bind.” Both organizations “said on Monday that it was too soon to speculate about anything beyond the immediate future, though musicians in Boston said they had been aware all season that Mr. Levine was in considerable pain.”
Author: Laura Collins Hughes
Maestro, How Were Your 6.5 Hours On The Met Podium?
Marco Armiliato, who conducted the “Aida” matinee Saturday before taking over for Leonard Slatkin on “La Traviata” that night: “Afterwards, I went home, cooked myself some pasta, played some Playstation and called my wife in Genoa. When I looked at the clock, I was surprised to see it was 3:30 in the morning.”
Investment Firm Sues Annie Leibovitz For Fees
The lawsuit is over the photographer’s failure “to pay at least $315,000 in fees [the firm] claims are due as part of her financing deal with the private- equity firm Colony Capital LLC.”
Mortimer D. Sackler, Philanthropist, Dies At 93
“He was a major donor to Oxford University, Edinburgh University, Glasgow University, the Tate Gallery in London, the Royal College of Art, the Louvre, the Jewish Museum in Berlin and Salzburg University, among other institutions. In New York, the Sackler brothers were probably best known for the Sackler wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art….”
At Museums, Maquettes Aren’t Only For Display Purposes
Exhibition designers at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art “make models of the museum’s gallery spaces and all the objects that might appear in a given show, using foam core, balsa wood and cardboard. Paintings and photographs get miniaturized to scale using Photoshop.”
Margaret Atwood Loves Her Twitter Followers
“They’re sharp: make a typo and they’re on it like a shot, and they tease without mercy. However, if you set them a verbal challenge, a frisson sweeps through them. They did very well with definitions for ‘dold socks’–one of my typos–and ‘Thnax,’ another one. And they really shone when, during the Olympics, I said that ‘Own the podium’ was too brash to be Canadian….”
Art Gallery Of Ontario Director Was Paid $1 Million In 2009
“The disclosure came just hours before 400 AGO staff … voted 96.4 per cent in favour of a strike if they can’t get a contract to replace the one that ended last November. On Thursday, 37 full-time and part-time Local 535 members are set to lose their jobs in a layoff action announced last month by AGO management.”
Mass. Music School Shrinks Staff In Bid For NY Partnership
“After years in the shadow of Boston’s major classical music schools, the Longy School of Music is looking to change course, transitioning from a small institution to a more significant player, perhaps as a satellite of Bard College in New York. The change … has involved shedding more than 20 percent of its teachers, many of whom have taught for decades.”
Boston Public Library Releases Data On Branch Popularity
“The 15 individual measures, which draw on statistics from 2009, lay out in stark detail which branches are less used, clustered close to other locations, and have inadequate facilities…. The release of the data marked the latest step in a process that could end with as many as eight shuttered libraries in the face of a $3.6 million budget shortfall.”
Chicago’s Most Essential Director Gets Under Our Skin
“The flagship director (that would be [Robert] Falls) of our flagship theater (that would be the Goodman) is supposed to get this town, this big town, all riled up. He is supposed to do so with a fresh work of magnitude and ambition. He is supposed to make a series of bold, risky theatrical choices. … Job done.”