“Across the 40 books studied, characters who swore were more likely to be wealthier, more attractive and more popular or socially influential, the researchers reported.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
Florida Orchestra Librarian Knows The Score – Actually, All Of The Scores
Ella Frederickson, who preps more than 21,000 pages of music a season for the Florida Orchestra also plays the cello and the theremin, works as Marin Alsop’s personal music librarian – and now serves as the president of the Major Orchestra Librarians’ Association.
Time To Toss ‘New Writing’ For Something Wilder And, Perhaps, Newer?
“The ‘New Writing’ play, like the ‘Well Made Play’ before it, exists as some sort of ideal to which new writers are supposed to aspire. This sense of what makes a good play has crept into the way workshops are run, courses are structured, feedback is given and, most damaging, into the very heart of the relationship between producers and artists. In teaching narrative, characterisation and structure, we are teaching a very particular set of aesthetic values predicated on creating a very particular kind of play.”
Punch And Judy Turn 350 Amid Raucous Crowd Of Puppeteers
“Punch and Judy men and women – known as ‘professors’ – took their hand puppets on a procession in London’s Covent Garden, staged shows for hundreds of children and held a church service with the red-nosed Mr Punch in the pulpit.”
Founder Of StoryCorps Remembers Studs Terkel, Extraordinary Historian Of Ordinary People
“When Studs was 91½, he took time to fly to New York City to cut the ribbon on our first StoryCorps Booth in Grand Central Terminal. At the opening, Studs proclaimed, ‘We know who the architect of Grand Central was, but who laid these floors? Who built these walls? These are the voices you must celebrate through StoryCorps!'”
Writers Still Lead Revolutions (Or At Least Spirited Marches) In Russia
“When the 12 writers left Pushkin Square at lunchtime, they were trailed by a crowd that swelled to an estimated 10,000 people, stopping traffic and filling boulevards for 1.2 miles. Many wore the white ribbons that are a symbol of opposition to Mr. Putin’s government. The police did not interfere, although the organizers had not received a permit to march.”
The Education Of Contemporary Composers
“One of the toughest parts of teaching composition–indeed, teaching any artistic medium–is not only teaching the subject, but guiding the implementation and ultimately the transcendence of the subject material; in other words, not only teaching someone how to compose, but how to be a composer.”
Selling Man Ray’s Legacy – From The Auto-Body Shop
“Mr. Browner, now 86 years old, had only met Man Ray once before he and his brothers stepped in three decades ago to help their bereaved sister sort out the artist’s affairs. Today, Mr. Browner manages 15,000 copyrights for the artist and oversees licensing contracts worth roughly $300,000 a year–from Mandarin Hotel headboards embroidered with Man Ray’s images to Zara’s taupe-colored Man Ray shirts. The trust’s proceeds are split among a dozen heirs.”
The Courage To Write (The Damned Stage Directions)
“It took flipping out about stage directions for me to realize how much I have internalized all the various messages I’ve heard and witnessed over the past seven years. And it’s even sadder that I felt the need for permission from others to embrace something that used to be instinctual to my process.”
A Dance To The Music Of Silence (And We Don’t Mean John Cage)
Choreographer Amy O’Neal: “Is music a crutch for me? Why do I have to have it? Why can’t I just be up there alone? There’s an inherent tension and beauty in silence.”