“Doug Wright, a member of the musician’s negotiating committee, says the offer, which cuts salaries by almost 18 percent over three years, was based on a management business model which believes classical music is dead.”
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Will Amazon’s New Matchbook Service Provide The Final Print Death Blow?
“The urge to connect paper books to the digital sphere remains a strong one. We’re still not at the stage where we can ‘rip’ our own books at home. … But last week Amazon announced a service to reduce the gap a little bit more.”
Why City Opera’s Risky Reboot Attempt Failed
“Two years later, as it prepares to wind up its affairs, company officials, former board members and experts in the field say the very steps City Opera took to save itself may have hurt it as much as they helped.”
Are Large Corporate Interests Trying To Brainwash Kindergarteners About Digital Sharing?
“In the real world, and under the law, we can’t make all the decisions about what uses we allow of that work. There’s a concept called ‘fair use’ – deliberately ignored in the lesson, on the absurd basis that kids can’t understand it – that explicitly allows others to make use of our work in ways we don’t like, or anticipate. Without fair use, creative works would be next to impossible, because we all build on the work of those who came before us.”
Historic New Orleans Theatre Reopens 8 Years After Katrina
“The memories it springs are so generational. Everybody still alive in this city can still remember the first time they walked into this gorgeous theatre.”
Frank L. Fouce, 85, Who Brought Theatre And T.V. To Latino Audiences
“He brought every major motion picture star from Mexico to the Million Dollar Theater for decades. Then, when he went to Channel 34, he brought them live to television. He was a one-man band bringing live Mexican talent to this community.”
This Record Label Picked A Fight With The Precise Person It Should Never Have Messed With
If you’re going to send a takedown notice to someone using your music in a video, maybe make sure that “someone” isn’t one of the most famous copyright attorneys in the world.
The (Probable) Last Performance Of City Opera
“The night was very much like the death scene of an American opera company that was known for championing new works, helping start the careers of major singers including Beverly Sills and Plácido Domingo, and making opera affordable and accessible.”
Please, Don’t Turn Your Back On Movies
“Fine films heighten experience. They conjure with sound and light–cinematographers were originally called lighting cameramen–and banish humdrum in the editing. Movies manipulate reality the way high-energy physicists manipulate matter, compressing it into hot plasma.”
Is ’12 Years A Slave’ Partly Fiction – And Does That Matter?
Solomon Northup’s life, and most of his story, is heavily documented. But “scholars have been trying to untangle the literal truth of Mr. Northup’s account from the conventions of the antislavery literary genre” for decades.