When 15,000 viewers watched a webcast of the DSO, they set a new record – one that the DSO hopes to overturn. “‘Our goal is to be the most accessible orchestra on the planet,’ Scott Harrison, the orchestra’s executive producer of digital media, said in a statement.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
Portrait Of Mary Todd Lincoln A Hoax – And So Is Its Poignant Story
The portrait, which has been hanging in the Illinois Statehouse, isn’t of Mrs. Lincoln at all. “Bauman identifies the culprit behind the scam as Ludwig Pflum, who rechristened himself Lew Bloom and was given to the kind of self-invention that America became famous for during the industrial era. He worked as a jockey, circus clown, boxer and vaudevillian before settling on art collecting.”
Lucian Freud’s Assistant, Model And Photographer Talks About The Artist
David Dawson: “Even though Lucian said he was not a creature of habit, the one thing he did do every single day of his life was get into the studio every morning. In our 20 or so years he did not miss a day, literally. And I had to be there first thing every morning, seven days a week, to prepare it for him.”
What Did ‘It’s Halftime In America’ Mean In Cinematic Terms?
J. Hoberman explains the Clint Eastwood (oh, and Chrysler) Super Bowl commercial: “‘It’s Halftime in America’ was a most effective bit of political theater — maybe the best of its kind since Ronald Reagan’s 1984 ‘Morning in America.'”
The Secrets To Lighting Up The Stage
“The intensity of the colours in the new lighting is really completely different. If we were to go back 20 years, the world would look so different, lighting wise. I spend a lot of time in China and the light there is very different, so that inspires me. But I guess, like every lighting designer, most of the inspiration we get comes from the sun.”
Remember When A TV Kiss Could Change The World?
“There was a time when a kiss, delivered by the right kind of person to the right kind of person, could set the whole country abuzz and speak profoundly to our national identity crisis.”
Jeffrey Zaslow, 53, Author Of ‘The Last Lecture’
“Zaslow, a columnist and best-selling author whose books included chronicles of a dying professor’s last lecture, a pilot who landed a crippled commuter plane in the Hudson River and Representative Gabrielle Giffords’s recovery from wounds in a horrific shooting in Arizona, died on Friday in a car accident in northern Michigan.”
Yes, Happy Birthday Dickens And All That, But Trollope’s Our Real Model
“With our robber-baron bankers, our financial panics, our privileged political elite and our disenfranchised migrant workers, it can feel as if we are living through a new Victorian era; certainly the narrative mode that Trollope established in The Way We Live Now has seen a renaissance in recent years.”
Sondheim’s ‘Merrily’ Is Rolling Back Toward Broadway – Maybe
“On Wednesday night, a semi-staged ‘Merrily’ was presented at New York’s City Center, placing the problematic show closer to Broadway both in spirit and location — only four blocks from its original theater — than it’s been in 30-plus years. How did ‘Merrily’ get here after all its drama — it was the ‘Spider-Man’ of its season, with postponements, creative replacements and plenty of ill will — and after all these years?”
Making More Makers – And Moving On From Marshmallow Cannons
Joey Hudy, the boy who impressed President Obama with his marshmallow cannon, is a self-identified “maker.” What’s that? “Makers start with that simple idea to do something, which is why we call it DIY – for ‘do it yourself.’ Soon, however, they find out that there are lots of people like [them] out there.”