“A Boston Symphony Orchestra audience had to evacuate Symphony Hall Tuesday night after a fire alarm went off inside … about 10 minutes before the end of the concert.”
Author: Matthew Westphal
Horror Movie Auteur John Carpenter On Composing His Own Film Scores
“I composed the score for my first film Dark Star because I was cheap and fast. I talked to a couple of other composers but they all seemed weird. … For me scoring is all improvisational. After the movie is cut, I synch my synthesizer to the cut footage and just start playing.”
Upholding Classic Chinese Painting Styles Through Cultural Upheaval
Fu Baoshi (1904-1965) practiced and developed the art of traditional Chinese landscape painting through war, occupation, revolution and the reign of Mao Zedong, when merely putting brush to paper was a political act.
Transforming A Jewish Museum In Order To Save It
“The story of how the Judah L. Magnes Museum – whose collection of Judaica is the third largest in the country – became the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life at the Bancroft Library of the University of California, Berkeley, … has much to do with the evolution of the American identity museum, with its chronicles of ethnic liberation amid hardship.”
After Seven Balanced Budgets, La Scala Expects Deficit
“La Scala general manager Stéphane Lissner’s first goal when he arrived at the renowned opera house in 2005 was to balance the budget, which he did that year and every year since. This year could be different, he warned Tuesday.”
Frederica Von Stade, Now Retired, Is ‘Available’
Says the beloved mezzo, now 66: “If somebody asked for a Belle Hélène? Sure! … Maybe something like the Grandmother in A Little Night Music. Not Marcellina in Figaro, not the old Countess in Queen of Spades. I won’t take old-lady roles just to be onstage.”
The RSC’s Latest Kate On Taming The Shrew
Actress Lisa Dillon: “[Kate] is as much a victim of her own behaviour as she is of the society she lives in. … Nobody can exist in a patriarchal society or outside one where your behaviour is so rebellious, vulgar, crass: you will always be the outsider unless something changes. … It’s a question of how you break that cycle. In that sense her story has parallels with addiction.”
Unusual Winged Roman Building Discovered In England
Those wings are architectural, not angelic. “Built around 1,800 years ago, the structure was discovered in Norfolk, in eastern England, just to the south of the ancient town of Venta Icenorum. The structure has two wings radiating out from a rectangular room that in turn leads to a central room. … The winged shape of the building appears to be unique in the Roman Empire.”
Entire Ancient Town Discovered On Lakeshore Near Istanbul
“The find is Bathonea, a substantial harbor town dating from the second century B.C. Discovered in 2007 after a drought lowered the lake’s water table, it has been yielding a trove of relics from the fourth to the sixth centuries A.D., a period that parallels Istanbul’s founding and its rise as Constantinople.”
St. Louis Symphony To Return To Europe After 15 Years
“The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra announced Monday it will go on its first European tour in 14 years, and the first under the leadership of music director David Robertson.”