“‘We had no major funders who were willing to make a lead gift,’ Managing Director Jennifer Bauer-Lyons said. ‘We had other people who were kind of waiting in the wings – ‘If you get a lead gift, call us back and we’ll do something’ – but there was nobody willing to make a lead gift.'”
Author: Matthew Westphal
Atlanta Symphony Lockout: How The Musicians Are Coping
“The cellist, who has barely slept, searches his laptop for a secret recording of a former symphony executive. The clarinetist is gone, joining two other musicians now playing in the New York Philharmonic. And the percussionist, who practiced all summer for a star turn that may never come, spent a recent morning packing bottles at a local brewery. He got $45 and, he adds, a case of ale.”
L.A. Seems To Be Swooning Over Australian Ballet’s Dancers
“The dancers have transfixed LA locals – and staff at their hotel. One man arriving with room service for Ms Lockett noticed a hanging tutu. ‘He was just fascinated,’ Ms Lockett said. ‘He said, ‘Stop it! You’re a ballerina!’ She tipped him generously for his enthusiasm. ‘We’d had such a lovely chat.'”
Can We Keep The Superintelligent Computers We Create From Conquering Us One Day?
The trick is how to serve us to keep us alive and well, as opposed to wiping us out…
The Broad Appeal Of Theater About Theater
“The playwrights of three current Broadway plays within plays – Tom Stoppard, Terrence McNally and Donald Margulies – discuss why these insider shows draw big audiences.”
The Mad, Misunderstood Marquis: Why Does Sade Still Have A Hold On Us?
“He is everywhere, and still he scares us. Why? Because with Sade, no cold or objective analysis is possible; the body is implicated as much as the mind, and reason has to be subordinated to deeper, scarier impulses.”
Miami City Ballet Apprentices At Work
“From professional rehearsals and classes with the Miami City Ballet to training with the Miami City Ballet School, the apprentices experience dance as both students and professionals. They are constantly focused on their ultimate goal: achieving careers as professional dancers.”
Ex-NPR CEO Vivian Schiller Leaves Twitter After Less Than A Year
Schiller left her post-NPR job as chief digital officer for NBC News to become Twitter’s first-ever head of news and journalism partnerships – a job that has evidently been eliminated in a senior staff consolidation.
Facing Ever-Tighter Budgets, More Paris Institutions Turn To Crowdfunding
In August, the National Library asked the public to help with the purchase of a €2.4 million illuminated manuscript; last week, the Musée d’Orsay began a campaign to raise €30,000 towards restoration of a Courbet painting. This week, the Louvre – who’s been doing this for four years now – launched a €1 million appeal to help buy a bejeweled 18th-century table that Proust wrote about in Swann’s Way.
Lost Stories By Truman Capote Published
“A Swiss publisher was searching for chapters of Truman Capote’s unfinished final novel last summer when he stumbled upon a different find … a collection of previously unpublished short stories and poems from Capote’s youth.” Four of the stories (in translation) are being published this week in a German magazine.