The new 46-member collective that calls itself The Declassified “plans to give chamber music concerts in various formations. But it mainly wants to establish residencies for weeks at a time at universities, conservatories and just about anywhere else. Performing would be only part of a menu of teaching, master classes and projects that bring audience members closer to performers.”
Author: Matthew Westphal
Advertising On The Web Isn’t As Carefully Targeted As You Might Think
“Everyone knows that half of all advertising dollars are wasted. And everyone knows that the Internet fixes that, because digital advertisers can spend money getting their messages to the people they want to reach. Except that’s not true at all: The Web offers advertisers a slew of creepily effective targeting mechanisms, but they only work for some stuff, some of the time.”
New York’s Dance World Unites To Pay Tribute To Its Shoes
“Well, shoes are very important to dancers – pointe shoes, ballet slippers, Broadway dance shoes, tap shoes. So it was an opportunity for dance – loads and loads, of all varieties – when Capezio celebrated its 125th anniversary Monday evening with a gala at New York City Center.”
Megan Fairchild Shows Us Just How Important Those Pointe Shoes Are
The New York City Ballet principal has made a 5½-minute video about the indispensable footwear, showing how the shoes are made, fitted and used.
Will Self Complains That Intellectually Challenging Art Has Been Marginalized
“I don’t for a moment mean to suggest that no-one produces anymore cultural artefacts that are ‘difficult’ in this sense – of course they do – it’s just that these works are no longer regarded as the desiderata that any well-cultivated person aspires to an appreciation of. Rather, ‘difficult’ works are parcelled off, and the great plurality and ubiquity of our media means that their specialist audience can be readily catered to.”
Tokyo String Quartet To Disband
“After more than 40 years, the members of Tokyo String Quartet have decided they will disband at the end of the 2012-13 season.”
China Begins An Art Museum Binge
“The boom in museum construction, which some Chinese art experts liken to the expansion of museums in the United States at the end of the 19th century, has much to do with national pride. It comes with the full support of the national government as part of a cultural strategy known as ‘Going Out, Inviting In’.”
Remembering Groucho Marx At Carnegie Hall
Dick Cavett, who was on hand to introduce the aged, weakened icon on that 1972 evening, recalls the enraptured crowds and how they energized the star – and the energetic, ambitious woman who got him back into performing.
Finding The Tunnel Of Light: Where Near-Death Experiences Are (And Aren’t) Located In The Brain
As brain monitoring techniques become ever more precise, researchers and clinicians are discovering surprising things about out-of-body and “temporary death” experiences.
British Dancer Opens Ballet School In Cambodia
“Stephen Bimson, 29, who graduated from the Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance in 2009, is working with a granddaughter of a Cambodian princess to transform a one-bedroom flat into Cambodia’s first ballet studio.”