Violinist Hahn announced the winner on her Facebook page, but there’s more to the Encores Project than winning. “There are so many great composers out there who either aren’t on the forefront of what people are aware of or whose works I wouldn’t necessarily have come across or students who I would not have had the chance to hear their music. I also wanted people to think about writing encores. The miniature form is challenging in a different sort of way and I thought it might be fun for composers to work on.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
Think Facebook Is Distracting? Try Theatre
“For Rousseau, theater was little more than an app of a broken society, and it was the world that had gone wrong. … Staged productions representing life, he believed, distracted us from one another, and from ourselves. Theater replaces lived experience with vicarious experience and condemned participants to wander the sea of the non-present.”
Urban, Regional, Tyler Perry – Whatever: This Theatre Festival Wants It All
The D.C. Black Theatre Festival started a mere two years ago – and has exploded as a venus for African-American drama, comedies, musicals, and more. “We wanted a festival that embraced both sides of the story — both urban and regional theater because of the importance of the story,” founder Glenn Alan said.
Famous In Times Square, Thanks To The Crowd (Can This Translate To Good Art?)
“At twilight on Monday, something new will light up a Times Square billboard. An original work of art, 23 stories high, will replace a bright yellow ad for Sprint. The artist whose work now gets a canvas Rembrandt could never have imagined is a substitute teacher from Allentown, Pa., who has made art for over 30 years but never had the backing of a major museum or gallery. Her creation will loom over Times Square because she won an online contest in which users of a Web site gave her more votes than 35,000 competitors.”
Video Content Keeps Growing On The Internet. Why?
More room for advertising! Plus, Netflix. “‘People are increasingly comfortable with iPads and iPhones to watch longer-form content — when you find something you love, it doesn’t matter how long it is,’ Shey said.”
Reading Racist Classics To The Kids: Why, And If So, How?
“We rewrite the past to serve the needs of the present. The clarity of history is its great advantage. The racism in Fantasia or Pippi Longstocking is overt: instantly identifiable by its noxious odor and satisfyingly dismissible with enlightened disgust. More subtle instances may provoke hedging and justification.”
How Did Bach Sound In His Time? Who Really Cares?
“‘I’m not really interested in how Bach played it,’ [Simone] Dinnerstein says on a sunny morning in her Brooklyn living room. ‘I’m playing Bach in 2012. It’s an entirely different world than the world that he lived in. It would be impossible for me to imagine how he would play it.'”
The Most Beautiful Hospital In A Most Beautiful City
New York Hospital: “Far up, almost invisible from the street, are touches of brilliance, where the peaks of the nine-foot-high Gothic arches are formed by panels of very thin brick set at cross angles, with the staff of Asclepius worked into the design. If you can get up close, the varying patterns are hypnotic, like the little rilles and ridges in the shallow water of a white-sand beach.”
A Magazine (App) For The Most Famous News Aggregator
“Huffington, the new magazine from the Huffington Post, is something of a contradiction. As a website, the Huffington Post is a catchall that values speed and timeliness in its stories and blogs. It’s free. It’s thoroughly Internet-y. Huffington (make that “Huffington.” with the period, on the cover), on the other hand, is a deliberate experience, a weekly magazine with deep features and stories breaking four digits in word count. It’s on the iPad, and, after a brief trial period, it’ll be a paid product.”
For Choreographer Mark Morris, Sunday Is A True Day Of Rest (And Cooking)
“The goal of Sunday is to leave my home as little as possible. So even if it only looks like I have a jar of mustard and an old film canister in my refrigerator, I can come up with a pretty good meal because I’m a pretty good cook.”