“We’re still smiling. Everybody is coming out with a smile on their face. It’s fantastic, far better than Leonardo, sorry Leonardo, but all that colour. Yorkshire is going to get a lot of tourists after this.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
Three Cheers For The Sexual Revolution! The 18th Century One, That Is
“The first sexual revolution can be traced in some of the greatest works of literature, art and philosophy ever produced – the novels of Henry Fielding and Jane Austen, the pictures of Reynolds and Hogarth, the writings of Adam Smith, David Hume and John Stuart Mill. And it was played out in the lives of tens of thousands of ordinary men and women.”
Will The Last Film Critic Out Please Turn Off The Village Voice? A Q&A With J. Hoberman
“At The Voice it was possible to believe that intellectual work was a form of real and effective political activism and that resistance to the machine (Hollywood included) was not only possible, but also necessary. For Voice writers, a movie was never only a movie: it was a way of seeing, living in, understanding and, yes, even changing the world.”
Leaving Dance, And Making New Ways In The World
“You go into this profession understanding you’re going to be looking at a second or third career. You actually train to be a dancer for a longer period than for becoming a doctor or lawyer, and you’re going into an occupation for a shorter period of time.”
Etta James, 73, Singer of ‘At Last’
“Etta James sang professionally nearly her whole life, and could stock a long shelf full of memorable records: gritty blues songs in the 1950s, hits in a broad range of styles in the ’60s. But “At Last,” the soaring ballad she first committed to wax in 1960, was her signature number, the one that followed her like a sweet lost child for a half-century.”
Using Classical Music To Drive People Away – That Is, “Undesirable” People
Cities, bus stations and private businesses blast classical music in trouble spots. Does it calm troubled people, or does it simply drive people away – and is that what we want classical music to do?
Young Singers, Young Musicians And Operas Recovered From The Nazis
The L.A. Opera’s James Conlon works with musicians from the Colburn School and singers from the opera’s Domingo-Thornton Young Artist Program on two operas suppressed by the Nazis. Conlon: The young musicians “are like sponges. And now every one of these young artists is going to know what it’s like to be in one of these operas. They will know there’s a lot of great music to be discovered.”
What’s The Point Of Occupy Wall Street In 2012? (Does It Need A Point?)
“As Occupy Wall Street enters its fifth month, dislodged from most of the public spaces it had staked out around the country last fall, the movement seems weakened, its future uncertain. It sometimes appears to be driven by a series of tactics designed to maintain its public presence with no discernible strategy or goal–a kind of muddled, loose-themed ubiquity. The movement has proven adept at provoking media attention, but one may wonder what it amounts to, apart from its ability to reaffirm its status as a kind of protest brand name.”
Religion Plus Hollywood Doesn’t Have To Be A Fail
“Hitting people over the head with overt expressions of faith is every bit as irritating, and potentially limiting, as insulting believers.”
That Radical Liszt – And His Path To Modern Fame
The Sonata in B Minor “is music of drastic intellectuality, clothed in a Dantesque drama. Looking within the sonata’s mighty inner conflicts, one finds the most daring structural innovation in large-form composition since Beethoven. Claudio Arrau called it Beethoven’s 33rd sonata, probably meaning that had Beethoven lived, he would have eventually fused all elements of sonata form into a one-movement plan.”