“The new accusers said they were angered by Dutoit’s initial denial and wanted to show the scope of his sexual misconduct during his globe-trotting career. They said the Swiss-born conductor attacked them in Paris, Montreal and the United States over a four-decade period, starting in the late 1970s.”
Author: Matthew Westphal
CBC Radio Bans Charles Dutoit’s Name But Not His Recordings
A spokeswoman for the national broadcaster wrote in response to a query, “While the allegations made towards Charles Dutoit are serious, we truly believe that removing these recordings entirely from our broadcasts would unjustly diminish the efforts of the many talented musicians who are featured in them. At this point, we are no longer crediting Mr. Dutoit as conductor.”
What Charles Dutoit’s Scandals Mean For Fans Of The Orchestras He Conducted
Peter Dobrin: “This is an old conundrum, though what’s different about classical music now is that it has worked so hard to personify orchestras through the image of the conductor, and it’s going to be especially tricky to separate podium stars from the music they produce – not to mention the ensembles they lead.”
Gardner Museum Extends $10 Million Reward For Info About Stolen Art
“The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum … doubled the reward to $10 million last May, but said at the time it would revert back to $5 million on Jan. 1 if no one came forward to collect the windfall before then. When announcing the increased reward with an expiration date, museum officials said they hoped it would send an urgent message to anyone withholding information about the artwork’s whereabouts and dispel any doubts about their intention to pay it.” That tactic didn’t work, and so the offer has been extended indefinitely.
The Women Running London’s Donmar Warehouse Are Leaving
“[Josie] Rourke will step down in 2019, after eight years as the Donmar’s artistic director, and [Kate] Pakenham, the executive producer, will leave this June. The pair made up the first female partnership to lead a London playhouse.”
How Josie Rourke Changed The Donmar, London’s Little Theatre Powerhouse
“Her predecessors at the Donmar, Michael Grandage and Sam Mendes, had turned the 251-seat venue in Covent Garden into an international player, through movie-star casting and regular West End and Broadway transfers. Although thrilled to be the first woman to run a central London theatre, Rourke knew the risk of becoming a theatrical equivalent of John Major after Margaret Thatcher or Gordon Brown after Tony Blair. After a nervous start, she made the theatre her own with a programme that forefronted women – notably Phyllida Lloyd’s magnificent trilogy imagining Shakespeare tragedies as performed by female prisoners – and politics.”
Richmond’s New Institute For Contemporary Art Loses Its Director Three Months Before Opening
Lisa Freiman came from the Indianapolis Museum of Art (where she was the top curator for contemporary work) 4½ years ago as the first director of the museum at the city’s Virginia Commonwealth University. She gave no reason for her departure other than wanting to return to her scholarly work (she’s staying on at the university as a faculty member).
Hearst Buys Rodale, Then Sells Rodale Books To Penguin Random House
“After completing its purchase of Rodale Inc. last week, the Hearst Corp., which announced the deal in October, quickly turned around and sold Rodale’s trade book publishing assets to Penguin Random House. Terms of the acquisition, which involves more than 2,000 backlist titles and 100 frontlist books, were not disclosed.”
Top Posts From AJBlogs 01.11.18
Derision for Admission Revision: Parsing the Metropolitan Museum’s New Mandatory Fees
Although I share the dismay over the Metropolitan Museum’s new admissions policy (which, nevertheless, I grudgingly acknowledge may be necessary), I’ve been equally unsettled by the misconceptions and misinformation promulgated by many of the pundits … read more
AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2018-01-11
How Australian English Derives All Those Weird Nicknames And Slang Words
Dan Nosowitz (that would be Dazza to an Ozzie) explains what the sentence “I had an avo sammie in the arvo with my sparky mate Daz at the servo” actually means and why an Australian would formulate it that way.