The Sleeping Beauty Wakes Up
AJBlog: Dancebeat Published 2015-06-04
The Frick’s Little Noticed “Prized Garden” Saved; Vital Expansion Still Planned
AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2015-06-04
Multiplicity
AJBlog: Infinite Curves Published 2015-06-04
What Silicon Valley means For Culture
AJBlog: CultureCrash Published 2015-06-04
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Author: Matthew Westphal
Music Critic Gets Fed Up, Snatches Cell Phone From Hand Of Oblivious Audience Member
David Patrick Stearns: “And just because the [Vienna] public is among the most cultured on the planet doesn’t mean the cellphones are under control. Despite a preconcert warning announcement, one woman pulled out her phone just as Lisa Batiashvili had begun the quiet, slow-burning opening movement of Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto No. 1. Only eight rows from the stage, the phone kept beeping and burbling, its owner entranced by it and oblivious to those nearby shooting her daggers. So the problem was addressed American-style …”
New Twists In Battle To Revive New York City Opera
“Two bidders with competing proposals to buy the failed opera company’s name and intellectual property in hopes of reviving it are now in talks to try to resolve their differences. The opera’s board is also weighing a third option in a light of a bequest that could be worth millions of dollars. Instead of selling off the company’s assets, the board could reorganize the defunct company through the bankruptcy process, enlisting one of the two bidders as a sponsor of the reorganization plan.”
Frick Collection Abandons Controversial Expansion Plan
“Facing a groundswell of opposition to a proposed renovation that would have eliminated a gated garden to make way for a six-story addition, the [Fifth Avenue] museum – long admired for its intimate scale – has decided to abandon those plans and start over from scratch.”
ISIS, Al-Qaeda, And Classical Arabic Poetry (They Write A Lot Of it)
“Unlike the videos of beheadings and burnings, which are made primarily for foreign consumption, poetry provides a window onto the movement talking to itself. It is in verse that militants most clearly articulate the fantasy life of jihad.”
The ‘Casting Couch’ Is Still A Problem – And It Seems To Be Getting Worse
“The exploitation of actresses – and actors – is not confined to Hollywood. Equity, the UK actors’ union, is receiving ever more complaints and has established a working party to investigate and draw up a set of industry guidelines.”
The Poet On His Island: The Final Interview With 2011 Nobel Laureate Tomas Tranströmer
“The stroke Tranströmer suffered in 1990 paralyzed him on one side, stealing most of his speech. … Over the afternoon I ask questions that Monica translates into Swedish, and then he responds, to which she seeks greater clarification, and on it goes. In between, Tranströmer steers her questions and extrapolations with his face, his few words, gestures, and the tone of his voice. They touch and regard each other constantly throughout this process. It is hard to tell, watching the two of them, who is the conductor, and who is the symphony.”
UK Refuses Visa To Georgian Theatre Company
Manchester’s Flare festival invited The New Collective, a young group based in Tbilisi, to perform next month. “But the British authorities are so concerned that this young collective will want to migrate to the UK that their visa application has been refused.”
Margaret Juntwait, Voice Of Met Opera Broadcasts, Dead At 58
“Juntwait was only the third regular announcer of the Met’s broadcast series, which launched in 1931, and the first woman to hold the job.” Before joining the Met, she was for several years a host of classical broadcasts on New York publc radio station WNYC.
The Case From ‘Serial’ Gets A Sequel Podcast – With More New Evidence
“If the listeners who were hooked by Serial have tuned into Undisclosed – a follow-up podcast from different producers – they may find themselves surprised by how much there is left to discover about the murder and investigation that followed. If Serial‘s thesis is that facts are elusive, Undisclosed‘s counterpoint seems to be that the past is less murky than you might think.”