The Dutch conductor, who finishes at the Dallas Symphony and starts at the New York Philharmonic in 2018, has extended his contract as music director of the Hong Kong Philharmonic through 2021-22.
Author: Matthew Westphal
How A Rural Community Orchestra Held It Together Through The Australian Floods
James Harvey, principal tuba of the Lismore Symphony in northern New South Wales, recounts how he and his fellows braved downpours, gales, and a building evacuation to perform for hundreds of appreciative small-town listeners.
A Comedian Faces Down Her Hardest Critics – Fellow Muslims
“Iranian American comic Negin Farsad doesn’t always feel the love when she’s doing her stand-up routine. And some of the toughest reactions to her comedy have come from fellow Muslims.”
World’s Richest Prize For A Single Novel Goes To Akhil Sharma
“Sharma’s Family Life, a mostly autobiographical novel that tells of how a family moves from Delhi to New York, where the older brother has an accident that leaves him brain-damaged and in need of 24-hour care, was named winner of the [€100,000] International DUBLIN Literary Award on Thursday.”
An ‘Irish Black Comedy’ Wins 2016 Baileys Women’s Prize For Fiction
“Lisa McInerney, who started her career as a writer with a blog about life on a council estate in the ‘Arse End of Ireland’, has won the Baileys women’s prize for fiction with her debut novel” – The Glorious Heresies – “beating Man Booker winner Anne Enright [The Gathering] and bestseller Hanya Yanagihara [A Little Life] to the £30,000 award.”
Top Posts From AJBlogs 06.09.16
Shock and ‘Eh’
I’ve been to enough ‘creative economy’ presentations to know how they generally flow: They draw a big circle and then flash a big number. The big circle includes lots of creative industries — from nonprofit … read more
AJBlog: The Artful Manager Published 2016-06-09
At the League conference
In this post: I’ll be at the League conference. My thoughts on the conference theme, diversity. classical music institutions don’t do enough planning, when they look for a new audience. … read more
AJBlog: Sandow Published 2016-06-09
Emerging from, Returning to Dust
Yvonne Rainer’s The Concept of Dust: Continuous Project — Altered Annually. … read more
AJBlog: Dancebeat Published 2016-06-09
Jeremy Steig, 1942-2013
Flutist Jeremy Steig died on April 13 at his home in Japan. He was 73. His death was confirmed days after the fact. “He didn’t like to read about musicians’ deaths in newspaper obituaries,” his wife … read more
AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2016-06-09
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Misty Copeland’s Not The Only Ballerina Fighting The Good Fight For Diversity
“It wasn’t until later in her ballet career that Lia Cirio began to suspect that people had their doubts that a half-Filipino ballerina could be a Clara or Sleeping Beauty. While the Boston Ballet employs 69 dancers of 20 different nationalities, she still sees the need to prove herself on stage with each performance.”
How The Hawaiian Language Is Coming Back From Near-Death
“[There’s now a network of] public language-immersion schools where subjects are taught in Hawaiian until about fifth grade, at which point English is gradually introduced. Designed to revive the fading language, these institutions began spreading across the state three decades ago, resulting in what many consider the most successful revival of an indigenous language in North America.”
Canadians Do Not Actually Say ‘Aboot’
“What they do say is actually much weirder.”
How Disgust Led To Civilization As We Know It
“We might owe disgust a great debt for our manners, morals and religion - and ultimately our laws, politics and government, as the latter three can be built only on the former. Evolution got the ball rolling by making our ancestors revolted by parasites and any behaviour that exposed them to infection; then culture took over and transformed people into super-cooperators willing to abide by shared codes of conduct.”