Sultanof On His Big Band Book
A few weeks ago the Rifftides Monday Recommendation was Jeff Sultanof’s new book Experiencing Big Band Jazz. … Sultanof was recently the guest on Michael Fitzgerald’s Jazz Forum program. Discussing his … read more
AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2018-03-08
“Department store Barneys New York has teamed up with Samsung and the Martha Graham Dance Company for what’s possibly the most intriguing dance-meets-fashion collaboration to date. Today through April 8, you can visit select Barneys stores or their website to experience Mantle, a surreal 11-minute virtual reality experience featuring current and former Graham company members in eerie choreography by Cynthia Stanley.”
Looks like somebody was missing the Maurizio Cattelan solid-gold toilet (the one titled America) that was in the same bathroom last year (and which was not actually lent to Donald Trump’s White House). “While that work stayed in place for a full year, Saturday’s unsanctioned intervention remained in place for roughly two hours.”
John Banville considers the writer’s last years – and whether (and in what ways) he willed his own destruction.
Anne Midgette meets the composer, who’s about to make his Kennedy Center performing debut – at age 81 – with some of those keyboard pieces.
“The two stars recently took a break from their intense final weeks of rehearsals” – Fleming as Nettie Fowler in Carousel and O’Hara as Despina in Così fan tutte – “to sit down at the Met and talk about what they had learned about each other’s turfs, share some of their insecurities and, at times, swap a little advice. Here are edited excerpts from that conversation.”
“On March 3, a small team of conservative activists converged on Revolution Books in Berkeley, Calif. live-streaming their actions on Facebook with this description: ‘Infiltrating Berkeley’s Marxist Hive.’ ‘Fucking Commie scum,’ shouted one conservative activist, taunting the bookstore employees who met them at the door. He wore an American flag on his shoulders and a ‘Make America Great Again’ hat. ‘We’re gonna burn down your bookstore, you know that right?’ he said.”
“French choreographer Medhi Walerski has given up a commission from Les Grands Ballets Canadiens for next season after widespread criticism that the program for which he was hired, entitled Femmes, would feature new works by three men and no women. Mr. Walerski’s replacement, however, will be another man, the company says.
“Netflix, set to spend upwards of $8 billion on content in 2018, will have in the neighborhood of 700 original TV shows on the service worldwide this year, according to CFO David Wells. … In addition to original series, Netflix is planning to release 80 original films in 2018, chief content officer Ted Sarandos said last fall.”
First of all, argues Stuart Heritage, nobody, not even a poor old TV critic, can watch anything close to that much. Second, “Netflix is gaining a reputation as a provider that throws buckets of money at stuff nobody else wants. … Third, if this isn’t an unsustainable land-grab, I don’t know what is.”
