Dawn Fatale, who has provided some of the most trenchant commentary out there on the company’s current troubles, offers a ten-point plan (okay, a listicle) for turning the place around. (As always, Parterre Box’s cher public comes through with yet more ideas.)
Author: Matthew Westphal
Cinemacasts Aren’t Cannibalizing OUR Audience, Says The Dallas Opera (Take That, Peter Gelb!)
General director Keith Cerny: “We have observed no measurable cannibalization of single ticket sales from either simulcasts or HD broadcasts.” What’s more, “whereas around 75 percent of the Met’s American HD broadcast audience is age 65 or older, only around 20 percent of TDO’s simulcast audience is 65 or older.”
New York City Ballet’s New Resident Choreographer: Justin Peck
His appointment, just two years after his first work for City Ballet, “makes him the second person to hold this position at City Ballet, after Christopher Wheeldon, who was the company’s resident choreographer from 2001 to 2008.”
Paul Horn, 84, A Founding Father Of New Age Music
As the flutist/saxophonist once told an interviewer, “New Age music does something wonderful to the nervous system. It settles you down into a deep state of relaxation. When people want to ‘cool out,’ a [New Age] record will do it real quick. It’s meditative music.”
Seymour Barab, 93, Cellist And Composer Of Whimsical Chamber Operas
While he did write serious stage works based on Dostoevsky and de Maupassant, “he was still more widely known for lighter one-act works whose accessibility, tunefulness and economy of scale made them among the most frequently performed operas in the world … perennial favorites of college, semiprofessional and regional companies.”
Kristin Chenoweth Joins Entrance Applause Debate: Let ‘Em!
“If someone wants to applaud somebody, let them. I get why [people who hate entrance applause] get their panties in a bunch but I just want people to go and experience the show. A good actor is a good actor, and if people want to reward him or her they should.”
Britain’s Museum Of The Year Is A Park In Yorkshire
The Art Fund’s £100,000 prize went to the 500-acre Yorkshire Sculpture Park, which the judges cited as “a truly outstanding museum with a bold artistic vision.”
Conductor May Have To Pay Orchestra For Welsh Proms (Blame The Funding Cuts)
“The conductor of the annual Welsh Proms will have to pay the orchestra fees for this year’s event in Cardiff himself unless most of the tickets are sold. Owain Arwel Hughes is having to act as guarantor for three of the festival’s four orchestral concerts after Cardiff council cut its funding.” (includes video)
What-All Can You Do With A Philosophy Ph.D.?
“Of course, for many, academic philosophy proves a disappointment – an endless slog to publish, the tedium and heartache of departmental politics, and a dismal job market that tends to people to far-flung college towns, far away from family and friends. So what is a budding philosopher to do?” Quite a bit, actually.
Swedish Filmmaker Releases 72-Minute Teaser For His 720-Hour Movie
On the last day of 2020, Anders Weberg will release Ambiancé, which is, he says, “an abstract nonlinear narrative summary of the artist’s time spent with the moving image.” The film will “be shown in its full length on a single occasion syncronised in all the continents of the world and then destroyed.” (includes trailer)