“A bunch of publications will go out of business and a bunch of others will survive the transition and a few will become app content GIANTS with news teams filing to Facebook and their very own Vine stars and thriving Snapchat channels and a Viber bureau and embedded Yakkers and hundreds of people uploading videos in every direction and brands and brands and brands and brands and brands, the end.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
The Woman Who Runs The LA Phil
“Her key accomplishment has been to keep the Phil relevant — and prosperous — at a time when fewer people nationwide want to buy season tickets to the symphony, especially an on-demand young generation that prefers a la carte programming with a contemporary edge. Borda and Dudamel have kept the classics, but they have expanded the repertoire.” (This is the first in a week-long series of interactive stories about the Los Angeles Philharmonic.)
If You’re The Betting Type, You Might Want To Bet On ‘Birdman’ And Its Director At The Oscars
“Alejandro G. Inarritu’s dramedy won the Directors Guild of America’s 67th DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures — aka the DGA Award — on Saturday night, which, on the heels of the film winning the top prizes of the Producers Guild of America and Screen Actors Guild, suggests that it will take something of a miracle to stop the film from winning the best picture Oscar on Feb. 22.”
When Dave Eggers And A Pakistani-American Playwright Decided To Create An HBO Series About A Muslim Cop
“What would happen if, instead of a token, we had a plurality? And they had last names, diverse ethnic communities, personalities, lame jokes, intrusive mothers, annoying but loving families, significant others, hobbies that weren’t inherently criminal, an ability to converse without violent outbursts, and so forth?” (HBO was very clear that it didn’t want “the Muslim Wire.)
You Can Enjoy The Art Just As Well (Or Better) Without Your Dangerous Selfie Stick
“The museums making this audacious stand against our time say the sticks are dangerous to their works of art (imagine trying to take your picture next to Van Gogh’s Starry Night, swinging the stick a bit clumsily and tearing the sky a new comet), and they are surely right.”
The Internet Finds – And Then Loves – Tilda Swinton’s 2014 Speech At The Rothko Chapel
“Perhaps the most radical suggestion we can make about ourselves is not that we are not different. Or even that we are. But that we are both.”
As Audience Participation In Live Theatre Ramps Up, Is The Trend Cool Or Terrifying?
“To those who see aggressive audience participation as the cutting edge, even the future, of theatre—who talk about its emergence from video gaming and the digital revolution, etc.—it might be instructive to point out that audience participation is as old as English Pantomime.”
So, Who Won The Classical Grammys?
“The curiosity of the evening was a Best Classical Compendium Grammy for late American eccentric composer and inventor Harry Partch. Accepting the award for his recording of Partch’s Plectra & Percussion Dances, producer John Schneider noted that his musicians had to learn the composer’s daunting 43-note scale as part of their preparation.”
Advice For A Boomer Who Can No Longer Tolerate Rock But Only Listens To Classical
“Returning to ground well-tilled can be a fruitless endeavour, so the doctor offers no cure: you have no disease. Besides, you have already hit on the best medicine the world has to offer anyone, at any age: passion and enlightenment.”
She Sang Backing Vocals On ‘The Lion Sleeps Tonight’ And Often Imitated A Theremin
“For the singer Anita Darian, getting to Carnegie Hall not only took practice, it also took a kazoo.”