The award, worth DKK 600,000 (currently about $88,000), “is Denmark’s highest musical honour and has been given annually to an internationally recognised composer, instrumentalist, conductor or singer since 1959.”
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Top Posts From AJBlogs 01.28.16
Getty Abducts Another Gorgeous Woman: $30.5 Million for Danaë
When it comes to major acquisitions of drop-dead gorgeous women, no museum can compete with the deep-pocketed Getty. It has just abducted Danaë from the Metropolitan Museum, where she had been on loan from … read more
AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2016-01-28
Rondeau/Chicago: Veteran Curator Promoted to Art Institute’s Directorship
Once again, the Art Institute of Chicago has looked it its own staff to find its new president and director: James Rondeau, chair and curator of modern and contemporary art (departments that merged under his … read more
AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2016-01-28
Horace Silver In Antibes
Saxophonist Gary Foster sent a link to video from a Facebook post of a seldom seen or heard performance by Horace Silver. At the 1964 Antibes Jazz Festival in Juan les Pins, France, Silver … read more
AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2016-01-28
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When Robert Pinsky Wrote A Video Game
Mindwheel, a text-based game from the 1980s, “is a playful mishmash of sci-fi tropes, Pop surrealism, and allusions both high and low … The player traverse[s] the minds and memories of four deceased individuals – loosely based on major historical figures – using what the game calls a ‘neuro-electronic matrix.’ The goal is to retrieve the titular mindwheel, which ‘contains the secret of the world’s best values.'”
This Woman Is To Peter Brook What Jeanne-Claude Was To Christo
Well, except for the spouse part. “Trusted lieutenant, enforcer, co-writer, co-creator: however Marie-Hélène Estienne is described, she has been at Brook’s side for the last 40 years. For the past 20, he has barely made work without her. … Calling her unsung doesn’t quite do it: she might be the most famous theatremaker no one has ever heard of.”
Kamasi Washington’s Giant Step
“With his popular, political, uncategorizable jazz, the young saxophonist has become something his genre rarely produces anymore: a celebrity.”
The Useless Agony Of Going Offline
“After seventy-two hours without my handheld devices, I didn’t miss my smartphone or access to Facebook. I missed learning new things.”
All Those Newer Disney Movies With A Strong, Non-Passive Princess Heroine? Turns Out They Have A Problem
“The plot of The Little Mermaid, of course, involves Ariel literally losing her voice – but in the five Disney princess movies that followed, the women speak even less. On average in those films, men have three times as many lines as women.”
The Real-Life Model For ‘The Little Mermaid”s Ursula The Sea Witch? Divine
“Although the sea witch is singular among Disney villains, there is a person behind this character. She is [sic] a real-life Ursula with a crimson mouth, eyebrows sharp as switchblades and a homicidal gleam in her eye. She is Divine.” Yes, John Waters’s Divine.
Canada’s Arts Scene Rattled By Plunging Canadian Dollar
“Talent, royalty fees and sets for some of Canada’s biggest productions often come from south of the border and are contracted in U.S. dollars. But with the Canadian dollar dipping below 70 cents last week, those contracts are now looking a lot more expensive than when they were initially negotiated.”
Submit Like A Man: Female Playwright Will Spend A Year Resubmitting Scripts Under A Male Pseudonym
Mya Kagan: “Over the past few years, I have been increasingly disheartened by the statistics on women in theatre and TV. The exact number varies from study to study, but they all come in around 20 percent. … With all these numbers reminding me that my industry sees and treats me as inferior to my male counterpart, I started wondering … would I have been more successful if people straight-up thought I was a dude?”