“Jeffrey Amundson, who served as the group’s president for four years, was placed on paid administrative leave in February after prosecutors charged him with stealing money from a vulnerable adult. On April 1, the board changed his leave to unpaid.”
Author: Matthew Westphal
Philip Glass Wins $100K Glenn Gould Prize
“Sometimes referred to as the ‘Nobel prize of the arts,’ the award is presented biennially to ‘an individual for a unique lifetime contribution that has enriched the human condition through the arts,’ according to the Glenn Gould Foundation.”
A Holocaust Survivor, One Of The World’s Great Harpsichordists, Remembers The Liberation Of The Camps
Zuzana Ruzickova “was a survivor of Terezin and Auschwitz and Nazi slave labor in Hamburg. [She] was a prisoner in Bergen-Belsen and at the time of its liberation, she was 18 and weighed 60 pounds.”
It Never Ends: Diane Paulus On Preparing A New Musical For Broadway
“As hard as a revival is, a new musical is just on steroids harder. You’re constantly looking at your book, your music, your structure, and at the same time you’re trying to get at execution. So it’s not just ‘Can we make the number better?’ It’s ‘Is the number in the right place?'”
Amazon And HarperCollins Finally Sign Truce, Er, Ebook Sales Agreement
“The agreement calls for HarperCollins to set the retail prices of its digital books, with incentives for HarperCollins to provide lower prices to consumers, according to a person familiar with the situation.” In other words, Amazon caved.
What Can Book Marketers Learn From Satanists?
“Anton Szandor LaVey’s founding text of the Church of Satan, The Satanic Bible, survives in the broad popular consciousness, in part thanks to regular challenges by groups seeking to ban it … Very little effort needs to be expended by the Church to market itself, because it can piggyback on the defensiveness of the Christian American majority.”
Santa Monica Museum Of Art Is Suspending Operations
Not that it’s shutting down, mind you: it’s simply leaving its longtime venue at the seaside city’s Bergamot Station. “The museum, which typically spends about $2 million a year, has the flexibility to consider a variety of new locations because it has no art collection tethering it to a permanent spot that is specially equipped to store and preserve art.”
Is This How To Spot Suicide Bombers Before They Bomb?
A team of Montreal researchers “identified the personality traits of those with a ‘psychological readiness to suffer and sacrifice’ his or her life for a cause. The result, a Self-Sacrifice scale, could be a boon to anti-terror operatives across the globe.”
Are Scientific And Religious Explanations Incompatible?
“Commentator Tania Lombrozo says the answer to whether scientific and religious explanations are fundamentally at odds isn’t a simple ‘yes’ or ‘no’ when it comes to explaining the world around us.”
Do Some Of These Musicologists Even Like Music?
Ian Pace (yes, he’s a musicologist): “Unfortunately I have encountered too many academics – not a majority, but still too many – who have very little interest in listening to music, at least in a manner which requires any sustained attention. Some even have a sneering and superior attitude to anyone who really cares about music at all, and exhibits any enthusiasm for it. I have even had the misfortune to be faced by the argument that playing music in lectures is a waste of time.”