An Australian researcher is claiming that he has convincing evidence that several of J.S. Bach’s better-known works were, in fact, composed by his wife, Anna Magdalena. “Dr Jarvis has used forensic analysis to examine various Bach scores, bar by bar, focusing on the musical structure and language, handwriting and the musical calligraphy.”
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NEC Looks To Compete With The Big Boys
New England Conservatory of Music may not be quite as high-profile as Juilliard or Curtis, but it stands as one of America’s top music schools. Still, it’s always a struggle for a school with a $100m endowment to compete for the best young musicians with a school like Juilliard, which boasts a nearly $800m endowment and abundant scholarship funds. NEC’s new president is looking to close that gap.
Writers’ Trust Shortlist Released
“Sixteen writers, including Miriam Toews, Rawi Hage and Margaret Visser, are in competition for a total of $155,000 in prize money as part of the annual Writers’ Trust of Canada awards honouring excellence in fiction and non-fiction.”
Lee Wins Canada’s Sobey Award
“A Vancouver artist who has drawn on Neil Young and the Beastie Boys for inspiration has been handed this year’s $50,000 Sobey Art Award… Using video, photography, sculpture and text, [winning artist Tim Lee] inserts himself into his work — referencing and recreating pop cultural and historical icons such as Johann Sebastian Bach, Steve Martin and Public Enemy.”
Ontario To Make Culture Part Of Pan Am Games Bid
“Expressions of southern Ontario’s diverse culture and arts will be a major part of Toronto’s bid for the 2015 Pan American Games… [The chair of the organizing committee] hopes to involve universities, colleges and other existing arts and cultural institutions in hosting seminars, debates, exhibitions and performances, as well as issues such as the environment and hemispheric trade.”
Why Language Matters
Linguists tell us that languages are dying by the hundreds these days, and most of us couldn’t care less. After all, do we really need 7,000 languages in an increasingly global world? But, the producers of a new documentary would ask, what happens when you need a word for the act of bringing something from an inaccessible place with the help of a long stick?
D.C. Library Taps Prominent London Architect
“The D.C. Public Libraries have hired one of London’s busiest and most prominent young architects to design replacement buildings for two of the most distressed branches of its system… The choice of [David Adjaye], which came through a competitive process involving library officials and neighborhood representatives, is a remarkable statement of architectural ambition.”
Lawsuit Alleges Price Inflation At Auction House
“The Sotheby’s art auction house has repeatedly inflated prices by failing to make full disclosures when it has an ownership stake in some of the works it sells, according to a federal suit brought Wednesday.” The plaintiff is CNet founder Halsey Minor, who was sued by Sotheby’s for failure to pay for three paintings he had bid for in spring auctions.
Lawsuit Alleges Price Inflation At Auction House
“The Sotheby’s art auction house has repeatedly inflated prices by failing to make full disclosures when it has an ownership stake in some of the works it sells, according to a federal suit brought Wednesday.” The plaintiff is CNet founder Halsey Minor, who was sued by Sotheby’s for failure to pay for three paintings he had bid for in spring auctions.
Lawsuit Alleges Price Inflation At Auction House
“The Sotheby’s art auction house has repeatedly inflated prices by failing to make full disclosures when it has an ownership stake in some of the works it sells, according to a federal suit brought Wednesday.” The plaintiff is CNet founder Halsey Minor, who was sued by Sotheby’s for failure to pay for three paintings he had bid for in spring auctions.