Said the aristocratic 80-year-old Spaniard, a longstanding and beloved guest conductor with several top U.S. orchestras, “After meeting with my doctors, … I have to recognize publicly that I have cancer … and the moment to quit professional matters has come.”
Author: Matthew Westphal
Recollections Of Warriors, Redeployed Into Dance
“During naval service in the Middle East, Paul Hurley lost a leg. Now he’s joined a dance company. … But what he’s involved in” – choreographer Liz Lerman’s Healing Wars – “is more than a dance.”
Eimear McBride Wins Baileys Women’s Prize For Fiction With First Novel
McBride’s A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing defeated the favorite, Donna Tartt’s 771-page The Goldfinch, as well as titles by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Jhumpa Lahiri for the £30,000 award formerly known as the Orange Prize.
New Book Genre: The Extreme Reading Memoir
“The merchandising of reading [today] has a curiously undifferentiated flavor, as if what you read mattered less than that you read. In this climate of embattled bibliophilia, a new subgenre of books about books has emerged, a mix of literary criticism, autobiography, self-help, and immersion journalism: authors undertake reading stunts to prove that reading – anything – still matters.”
A Yelp For Arts Workers To Discuss Employers
“By encouraging artists to share employment experiences, the Who pays artists? website aims to expose the companies which underpay creatives as well as draw attention to industry best practice. And already, Australian artists are sharing their stories, both good and bad.”
James Joyce Had Syphilis, Says Harvard Scholar
Kevin Birmingham: “Without the diagnosis, Joyce’s letters make him seem as if he’s a grousing hypochondriac or someone who just isn’t particularly healthy. The truth is that he was in serious pain.”
‘Carsick: John Waters Hitchhikes Across America’
That’s the title of the filmmaker’s new book, and that’s exactly what he did. He reports back to WNYC’s Brian Lehrer. (audio)
NY Phil Concertmaster Glenn Dicterow: The Exit Interview
“After 34 years at the New York Philharmonic, concertmaster Glenn Dicterow will play his final concert on June 28. Dicterow has had the longest tenure of any Phil concertmaster, and he’s done everything from traveling with the orchestra to North Korea in 2008 to taking over when a conductor gets lost.” (audio)
Australian Ballet Gets $1M In Public Funds To Purchase Mansion
The Melbourne property – full price $4.7 million – will be used as a boarding school for the company’s young students. Yet with most of Australia’s large arts organizations having to absorb big budget cuts, this particular budgetary line item has raised eyebrows.
How A Quirky One-Night-Only Musical Got Onto Broadway And Got Four Tony Nominations
A Q&A with producers Dan and Amy Sherman Palladino, who basically stalked the star and the director of the Roundabout.