Sorry, it’s not a recording of the full performance, but it is a 2¼-minute mini-doc with interviews and excerpts.
Author: Matthew Westphal
Brooklyn Museum To Cut Staff
“The Brooklyn Museum is offering voluntary buyouts to address a budget deficit of about $3 million, the museum’s director, Anne Pasternak, informed the staff on Wednesday. ‘It’s a course correction,’ Ms. Pasternak said in a telephone interview.”
GWU Cuts Faculty At Corcoran Gallery As Enrollment Falls
“Ten full-time faculty members who came to George Washington University when it took control of the Corcoran school were told Monday that their one-year contracts would not be renewed. … The cuts come as enrollment dropped 24 percent since the university assumed control of the school in August of 2014.”
A Stand-Mate Pays Tribute To The World’s Longest-Serving Orchestral Player
Michael Kurth on his Atlanta Symphony colleague, Jane Little, who died earlier this month at age 87: “When I feel sore and weary after a day of playing the bass, I remind myself that if an 87-year-old cancer patient with a broken vertebra who weighs 90 pounds soaking wet can do it, maybe I should stop whining and get back to work.”
Making Stephen King’s ‘The Shining’ Into An Opera
Minnesota Opera prop master Jenn Maatman: “One of the big things about the movie that was wrong, as far as King is concerned, is that Jack used an ax. In the book it was a croquet mallet. I think that’s really fabulous.”
What Misty Copeland Won’t Be Doing When She Retires
“[Choreographing] is not something I see in my future – it’s not something I’m interested in, it’s just not everyone’s path. Just like I’m not interested in teaching or opening a school – it’s just not something I’ve ever been drawn to.”
‘The Exorcist’ Director Says Church Let Him Film An Actual Exorcism
William Friedkin “said he was taken aback at how close the ceremony was to the exorcism depicted in his 1973 film. ‘I was pretty astonished by that. I don’t think I will ever be the same having seen this astonishing thing.'”
Top Posts From AJBlogs 05.23.16
A Small Museum Focuses On Men
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Speaking of Love
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“Tidal Wave of Change”: The Sudden Turnover of U.S. Art Museum Directors (towards contemporary)
While the annual meeting of the Association of Art Museum Directors (in Cleveland through tomorrow) focuses on ways “to increase diversity throughout the field,” Kaywin Feldman, director of the Minneapolis Institute of Art … read more
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Monday Recommendation: JD Allen
JD Allen, Americana: Musings on Jazz and Blues (Savant) The wisdom of Allen’s choice of material is borne out in nine performances that illustrate an article of faith he expresses in his notes, … read more
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Live All-Nude Shakespeare In Central Park! (Yes, Really)
“This is an all-woman, fully nude, abridged adaptation of William Shakespeare’s final play The Tempest, … produced by the Outdoor Co-Ed Topless Pulp Fiction Appreciation Society.” (Remember them?) But you’ve missed the last show, we’re afraid …
The First-Ever $100,000 Chamber Music Prize Has A Winner
The grand prize at the inaugural M-Prize Chamber Arts Competition, held at the University of Michigan, was won by the Calidore String Quartet of New York. The competition, created by Sphinx Competition founder Aaron Dworkin, has divisions for strings and winds as well as an open category which covers percussion groups, mixed ensembles, and other combinations.