Is this a problem for the arts?
Author: ArtsJournal2
Orchestra Saves Elementary-School Student WIth Gift Of Trombone
The Philadelphia Orchestra may be having some money troubles, but they’re nothing compared to the trouble 9-year-old Aidan Milligan was in after someone took his trombone. So the orchestra is fixing Milligan’s problem.
Theatre Should Shock Us – And We Need To Remember That
“Horrible things are supposed to be horrible, to jar and linger. We forget that, so accustomed are we to our easy, instant-gratification culture where, when trouble hits, the grief counselors are rushed in, the popular pills are prescribed, and we’re all expected to dance upon the fresh graves of our personal heartbreak.”
World-Record Jump Draws Millions Of Viewers – On YouTube
Sure, it was the highest, longest, and fastest skydive – but Felix Baumgartner’s death-defying leap broke another record: Most livestream viewers on YouTube, topping out at more than 8 million as he broke the sound barrier.
For Your Funeral: My Way, Or Some Monty Python?
Because, at least in the UK, you’re probably not going to want a hymn. And that Eric Idle song “Always Look on the Bright Side” gets a surprising amount of play.
A Tech Reporter Heads To The Frankfurt Book Fair
In short: E-books; traditional publishers love self-published winners; Amazon expands Kindle Lending Library (to iffy reactions); and in mobile news: Africa and China.
The Welsh National Opera Gets A Large Gift – From The Getty Family
The £1.2 million ($2 million) gift comes with at least one string attached: “The works planned for the next five years include one by composer Gordon Getty, son of oil tycoon J. Paul Getty.”
Broadway Has Gone Crazy For Classics – Again
Is the revival-filled season a sign of decreasing creativity, or simply a return to seriousness? (And does it really matter?)
Learning To Be Human – By Reading, Of Course
“This is why novels are magic, and why they’re not only worth celebrating: at some level it’s probably necessary that we celebrate them. They are invented untruths, but without those untruths – those literal lies – we’d be severely limited in what we could ever understand about our real selves.”
That Painting In The Garage? It’s Important
The 1820s oil painting shows black 19th-century Shakespearean actor Ira Aldridge in a leading role – and so is an important “document of black history.”