“[He] came to WQXR in 1954 and by his retirement on Sept. 29, 2006, was one of the longest-serving classical music hosts in the United States. Like many radio personalities of the era, he worked as a voiceover artist and actor [as well].” Moss became nationall known through two syndicated classical radio shows, First Hearing and This Is My Music.
Author: Matthew Westphal
The Enduring Gullibility Of Chinese State Media
Xinhua found the Andy Borowitz New Yorker column about Jeff Bezos having bought The Washington Post by mistake (he clicked the wrong button), translated it into Chinese and ran it as an actual news story. This was far from the first time Chinese state media believed what looked to Americans like obvious satire.
Jane Austen, The Interactive Board Game
This year in particular, besides the novels, there are Austen biographies, banknotes, fan fiction, a movie, and even that ring Kelly Clarkson paid so much money for. So The New York Times has helpfully provided the one thing that was missing.
The Declining Marginal Utility Of Bad Art
A longstanding belief within behavioral economics held that people will usually come to like lesser-known or mediocre works of art as well as they do canonical works simply through repeated exposure. Reassuringly, a new study finds that this is not true of bad art; the more subjects saw of it, the less they liked it. (And whose work was used as the bad art in the study?)
Lost Orson Welles Film Rediscovered In Italy
Too Much Johnson, a short silent movie “which the seminal filmmaker directed two years before coming to Hollywood to make his landmark 1941 drama Citizen Kane, … was recently found in a warehouse in Pordenone, Italy.”
There’s Still No New Chief Of The NEA, And People Are Worried
“More than eight months have elapsed since [Rocco] Landesman announced that he was stepping down from the nation’s top arts post. … Yet the hunt for a replacement – who must be nominated by the president and confirmed by Congress – seems to have stalled.”
Tourist Breaks Finger Off 14th-Century Sculpture In Florence
“The 55-year-old Missouri man was measuring the right hand of the ancient artwork when he unintentionally snapped the pinky finger off the estimated 600-year-old piece. A security guard monitoring the exhibit reacted immediately but apparently intervened a moment too late.”
E-Books Strain Relations Between Libraries And Publishing Houses
“E-books have changed the world of publishing in fundamental ways. The business model that encouraged publishers to support the work of public libraries has changed to such an extent that this relationship has been stressed to the point of non cooperation.”
Hawaii Symphony Trims Back For Its Second Season
“Last year was the inaugural year for the Hawaii Symphony Orchestra. And while artistically, organizers say it hit all the right notes, financially it was still a struggle. So, there will be some changes. … This year will be a total of 19 weeks, which includes the opera and the Nutcracker ballet. Last year’s season lasted 22 weeks.”
The Loneliness Loop: Why Feeling Sad Makes Us Shop and Shopping Makes Us Sad
“A well-timed trip to the mall is a long-approved variety of psychic medicine. No matter how preposterously officious the term ‘retail therapy’ might sound to you, research has consistently found that shopping our way out of an emotional hole really does work. Sometimes.”