“All I’ve read, for months and even years, is that the video store is dead, and yet here I am at the counter of Video Free Brooklyn in the middle of a weekday afternoon, and I can’t get a word in edgewise.”
Author: Matthew Westphal
#CreatorGate – Scientific Academia Goes Nuts Over One Word In A Study About Hands
“It’s rare for any kind of deity to get a shout out in a scientific journal, let alone one as well-known and widely-read as PLOS One, so the reference raised alarms in the scientific community as soon as it was pointed out online last week.”
MTV (!) Salutes Nikolaus Harnoncourt, ‘Classical Music’s Punk Genius’
“‘This brave hero who had the courage to scale back vibrato’ is a weird thing to think, much less type. But in the context of 1950s classical music, historically informed practice landed like a pink wig and a Sex Pistols t-shirt. … No kidding – this stuff is still controversial today.”
Director Of The Hermitage Wants To Rebuild Palmyra
“Mikhail Piotrovsky, the director of the State Hermitage Museum [in St. Petersburg], says that … his museum can help to rebuild the ancient city. … The Hermitage is working with its peers – informally, for now – to gather photographs, engravings and other archival documents that capture the ancient city from every possible angle.”
Bridging The Gulf Between Classical, Opera, And Musicals (Again)
“It’s a simple fact that nowadays, in the Sondheim era, Broadway composers, conductors, and singers are musically better schooled than ever, and at ease in a wider range of idioms. … The classical/showtune connection has reopened, with evidence on display all around us.”
Bill Gates-Steve Jobs Musical Cancels Broadway Opening
“Nerds, the long-aborning and much-delayed musical comedy about the rivalry of Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, has hit another roadblock, cancelling a Broadway opening that had been scheduled for April. The musical has been kicking around since it debuted at the New York Musical Theater Festival in 2005.”
Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker And Brian Eno Try Shakespeare Without Words
“In the show Golden Hours, featuring tracks from Eno’s Another Green World and choreography by de Keersmaeker, the playwright’s lines are danced rather than spoken. The duo talk about stretching time, the power of pop songs and searching for answers in the studio.”
Christopher Wheeldon On How And Why He Made A Ballet Out Of ‘The Winter’s Tale’
“The Winter’s Tale was a suggestion that came to me from Nick Hytner. I said to him I’d really like to choreograph a Shakespeare and all the obvious ones have been done. He said: ‘Well, The Winter’s Tale has proved really challenging for directors. I’ve got a feeling it might work for dance. I think some of the problems may sort themselves out if there’s no-one actually talking!'”
Top Posts From AJBlogs 03.08.16
Complex Problem? Fail your way to a solution.
Like Ed Catmull of Pixar states, failure is necessary to producing successful creative work. If only because the first idea is not always the best idea. It requires reworking, shapeshifting. … read more
AJBlog: Field Notes Published 2016-03-08
Setting Intention
“One great lesson we learn when we mess up is how to set intention.” … read more
AJBlog: Field Notes Published 2016-03-08
It’s a Shark
Have you heard the saying “a few sharks can ruin the sea”? Probably not. It’s not an actual saying. Perhaps it should be. Have you ever wanted to take a chance … read more
AJBlog: Field Notes Published 2016-03-08
Boulez haunts the Philharmonic – from his noisy youth
Pierre Boulez has been haunting the New York Philharmonic mercilessly. On Monday night at the fashionable Williamsburg, Brooklyn venue known as National Sawdust, the recently deceased composer was heard alongside … read more
AJBlog: Condemned to Music Published 2016-03-08
“We All Paint in Delacroix’s Language”
Paul Cezanne said that. He also said that Delacroix’s palette was “the most beautiful” in France. … read more
AJBlog: Real Clear Arts Published 2016-03-08
Mad Met: More on the Met Breuer’s Misfire on Madison
While the Met Breuer’s inaugural show, Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible, may prove to be a popular success, given the interest in the Metropolitan Museum’s new Madison Avenue initiatives, it got mostly tepid to negative verdicts … read more
AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2016-03-08
Dancing in Places
Eiko performing in Precarious II: Guest Solos in PLATFORM 2016: A Body in Places at St. Mark’s Church. … read more
AJBlog: Dancebeat Published 2016-03-08
Midweek Special: Farmer, Hall Swallow, Perkins — Just Because
Art Farmer, flugehorn; Jim Hall, guitar; Steve Swallow, bass; and Walter Perkins, drums, play Sergio Mihanovich’s “Sometime Ago,” on Ralph J. Gleason’s public television series Jazz Casual, ca. 1963. … read more
AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2016-03-08
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Philosophy Isn’t In An Ivory Tower, It’s At The Center Of The Entire Modern World
Responding to a column earlier this year titled “When Philosophy Lost Its Way“, Scott Soames explains how, over the last century, philosophers have established the very bases of present-day computing, psychology, cognitive studies, physics, linguistics, and political science.