Egarr, a British harpsichordist and conductor, has been artistic director of the much-recorded period-instrument ensemble the Academy of Ancient Music since 2006. He begins his term as one of the SPCO’s rotating artistic partners next season.
Author: Matthew Westphal
Remaining Rape Charge Against Ex-Ballet San Antonio Dancer Dismissed
Earlier this month, a jury found Hugo Ihosvany Rodriguez not guilty of the alleged rape of a fellow Ballet San Antonio dancer in March of 2017. He was still being held for trial on a separate charge involving another woman later the following July. Last week, that case was quietly dismissed due to a missing witness.
Our System For Dealing With Artworks Looted By The Nazis Has Failed: Noah Charney
“On December 3, 1998, 44 world governments and 13 international NGOs came together in Washington D.C. to develop a guide for dealing with Nazi-looted art. … On November 26-18, a conference in Berlin marking the 20th anniversary of these goals” — known as “the Washington Principles” — “will assess the success of these objectives. But it seems like there are some tough conversations to be had.”
Prison Inmates Talk About How Performing In Plays Helps Their Rehabilitation
“It built all my confidence up, I felt alive again. I felt like there was a future.” Reporter Bruce Munro talks with current and former prisoners in Scotland (including one who’s gone on to study at the Royal Conservatoire) about the changes that prison theatre programs helped them make in their lives.
How An Archaeologist Identified A 6,000-Year-Old Musical Instrument
“Marilyn Martorano first laid eyes on the long, baguette-shaped rocks almost four decades ago, as a volunteer at what is now Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve in southern Colorado. The clearly hand-shaped stones, which had been discovered in the area, were housed in the on-site museum when Martorano first saw them. They were a strange set of artifacts for which no one had yet determined a use.” Thirty years later, a video someone sent her made her realize that the rocks made up a percussion instrument now called a lithophone.
Satanic Temple Settles Lawsuit Over Sabrina The Teenage Witch
Temple co-founder Lucien Greaves announced that his church’s intellectual property case against Warner Bros. and Netflix for copying the organization’s iconic statue of goat-headed deity Baphomet for the set of the series The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina has been “amicably settled.”
Andy Blankenbuehler Replaces Wayne McGregor As Choreographer For Movie Version Of ‘Cats’
Blankenbuehler, who won a Tony and an Olivier Award for his work on Hamilton, steps in for contemporary ballet choreographer McGregor, who withdrew because of scheduling conflicts with a work he’s creating for the Royal Ballet in London.
Peeling Back The Paint (Virtually) On Brueghel’s Paintings
“What would happen if you peeled back the layers of a masterpiece by one of art history’s greatest painters? Dead bodies might suddenly appear. Take, for example, Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s large-scale festival scene, The Battle Between Carnival and Lent.”
‘It Was A Suicide Mission, And I Understood That’ — Aaron Sorkin Writes About Adapting ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ For Broadway
Sorkin describes how he approached the challenges of translating one of America’s most beloved novels into a different medium in a different century (the world has changed a lot since Mockingbird was written) and how the production’s team handled the lawsuit from Lee estate executor Tonja Carter.
Author Of Memoir About Escaping Gang Life Shot Dead After Book Launch
“[Nedim] Yasar, who was born in Turkey and arrived in Denmark at the age of four, had led the Copenhagen-based criminal gang Los Guerreros – a notorious gang with links to the drugs trade, according to police. He quit the gang in 2012” and had just published a book titled Roots: A Gangster’s Way Out. He was shot as he was leaving a launch party at a Copenhagen bookstore.