“He deeply loved the theater, his teacher from the rugged prairie to raging, war-torn Washington. … Lincoln’s meteoric rise from the frontier was fueled by his skills as a performer. Drama, jokes, stories, courtroom arguments, outdoor debates – he could go on for hours and exhaust rivals such as Senator Stephen Douglas.”
Author: Matthew Westphal
The World’s First Transatlantic Performance With No Transmission Delay
Drama students from Weston College in England and UNLV “will perform the same piece simultaneously, with the overseas actors being broadcast on a screen behind the live action in both locations. The synchronised performance has been made possible by the development of two supercomputers, named ultra grids, which have removed the transatlantic time delay in broadcast.”
Top Posts From AJBlogs 04.14.15
‘One-Way Ticket’? Lawrence’s ‘Migration Series’ Should Remain Whole after MoMA’s Showing
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Ann Meier Baker, NEA director of Music and Opera, on her new job and NEA Jazz Masters
AJBlog: Jazz Beyond Jazz Published 2015-04-14
Louis C.K. and the War Against Smugness
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Room at the Table: Black female college professors tough it out in Idris Goodwin’s Blackademics
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Chicagoland Chamber Orchestra Shuts Down After 20 Years
“Gayle Heatherington, Ars Viva executive director, said Monday morning that the ensemble was in ‘excellent financial health’ with record subscription and single ticket sales and that the decision to draw the curtain was purely ‘a personal one.'”
How Do You Function As Director Of Someone Else’s Museum? (Especially Eli Broad’s)
“Being the director of Eli Broad’s new museum might strike some people as a contradiction in terms. … How could someone running Mr. Broad’s private museum really have any power?” Joanne Heyler, however, is just the person to pull it off.
Philadelphia Orchestra’s Summer Season At City’s Mann Center Down To Two Weeks
“The Philadelphia Orchestra, which once played an 18-concert series in Fairmount Park, and more recently nine, will perform six this summer – and only three can be considered purely classical.” The venue’s CEO says she’d like more from the orchestra, whose administrators respond that they can’t schedule it.
Indians, Iranians, And Gay Penguins: The 2014 List Of Library Books Tried Hardest To Ban Is Here
Leading the pack in attracting misguided outrage was Sherman Alexie’s young-adult title The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, followed by Marjane Satrapi’s girl-comes-of-age-in-Iran graphic memoir Persepolis and Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell’s And Tango Makes Three, about the same-sex pair of penguins who raised a chick at the Central Park Zoo.
The Monster Wave That Changed Art History (It Came From Japan)
Hokusai “is, after all, not only one of the great figures of Japanese art, but a father figure of much of Western modernism. Without Hokusai, there might have been no Impressionism – and the global art world we today take for granted might look very different indeed.”
Theatre In The West End Is In A Golden Age, Says Top Producer
Sonia Friedman: “I can stand here alongside a lot of colleagues doing the same job, saying the West End is as good as it can ever be, and it’s probably the best it’s ever been right now.”
Bringing Genuine Vaudeville To The Metropolitan Opera
“What’s a vaudeville consultant doing in an opera house? It turns out that not just anyone can choreograph a decent slosh routine, a messy staple of slapstick in which whipped cream, custard or shaving cream is wielded as a projectile, hopefully to comic effect.” So David McVicar decided to make the itinerant clowns of Pagliacci into a traveling vaudeville troupe, he turned to this man.