“The Vatican said on Sunday it had received a ransom demand for the return of two rare documents written by Renaissance master Michelangelo that were stolen from its archives nearly 20 years ago.”
Author: Matthew Westphal
CBC Names Replacement For Jian Ghomeshi As Host Of “Q”
The award-winning rapper Shad – né Shadrach Kabango – was the broadcaster’s choice to anchor the flagship culture show on CBC Radio One, prevailing over roughly a dozen guest hosts who did stints on the program following Ghomeshi’s firing over accusations of sexual harassment and battery.
Shad, The New Host Of “Q”, Is The Perfect Anti-Ghomeshi – Does That Make Him A Good Choice?
“When it went looking for the next host for Q, the CBC was a lot like someone badly burned by their last boyfriend … [it] contorted itself to appear to avoid the pitfalls that made the last relationship tank. … So there’s little surprise that the result is what happens in hastily engineered rebound relationships.”
Actually, Shad Is “A Perfect Choice” To Host CBC’s “Q”
“In Shad, CBC has found an outsider, badly needed, given the multiple reports of a toxic work environment within the Mother Corp. … He’s also an artist who is essentially Canadian, a Kenyan-born immigrant who has rapped nimbly and sagely about Aboriginal issues, love and feminism, among other things.”
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Pritzker Prize Goes To Architect Frei Otto One Day After He Dies
“The German architect and engineer best known for his tent-like structures for the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich … died Monday in Germany at age 89. … Otto’s death forced Pritzker officials to scramble to prepare an announcement that is typically carefully choreographed.”
Metropolitan Museum Names New President
“The Metropolitan Museum of Art has appointed Daniel H. Weiss, the president of Haverford College in Pennsylvania, to succeed its outgoing president, Emily Rafferty, who is stepping down later this month after a decade in the post and nearly 40 years at the museum.”
Conducting’s Next Big Question: Who Will Bag The Berlin Phil?
“Here’s the situation as I see it, based solely on subjective rune-reading, along with a pinch of happenstance and hearsay.” Tom Service handicaps the possible candidates.
Thomas Dausgaard To Be Next Chief Conductor Of BBC Scottish Symphony
“After all the fuss and fanfare of last week’s appointment of Simon Rattle as new music director of the London Symphony Orchestra, the BBC SSO’s announcement is a veritable coup-de-théâtre of understatement. True, Dausgaard isn’t the household name that Rattle is, and the BBCSSO isn’t saddled with the hype and politics of London’s flagship orchestra. But it would be wrong to mistake the unshowy Dausgaard for any kind of musical lightweight.”
Evelyn Glennie And Emmylou Harris Win 2015 Polar Music Prize
“Dame Evelyn, who played at the opening of the London 2012 Olympics, was the first person in history to have a full-time career as a solo percussionist. … Harris, from Birmingham, Alabama, has recorded more than 25 albums over four decades and was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2008.”