Pianist H̩l̬ne Grimaud and maestro Claudio Abbado had worked well together during 15 years of occasional performances and recordings. But when Grimaud wanted to perform a Mozart cadenza one way and Abbado preferred that she stick to his plan, the partnership soured Рleaving a concert promoters in the lurch.
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A Childhood That Only Fiction Could Love – Or Even Partly Redeem
When novelist Jeannette Winterson published Oranges Are not the Only Fruit, interviewers wondered if it was autobiographical. Truth, she writes, is stranger – and harder – than fiction.
David Lynch: Director, Mathematician, Curator?
What do you get when you combine film director David Lynch with a bunch of mathematicians and artists to stage a Parisian art exhibit? “A typically unsettling design” – an exhibit that’s “terrifically engaging and utterly disorienting.”
To Open Your Mind, Just Draw – Or Watch An ‘Animate’ Video
“Watching an artist draw is like watching magic,” says the man behind the idea for those fantastic animated British lectures. Take a 750-page book, distill it to a speech – and then expand it to a video of artist Andrew Park illustrating the speech? That’s worth millions of hits, and a lot of knowledge.
Start With A Mood, Then Proceed To Precision
Ballet master Stuart Cook spends a few hours with the Pacific Northwest Ballet, and changes their understanding of Jerome Robbins.
Radio’s Dying. Why Is Colorado Public Radio Launching An Entirely New Station?
Advertisers and listeners appear to be departing radio in record numbers. But at Colorado Public Radio, a new indie-rock station launches Sunday. What gives?
This Just In: Making Art Available In More Ways Increases Interest, And Profit
What book authors like Cory Doctorow and musicians like Radiohead have been saying for years is now translating to the movies as well: “The success of Margin Call raises the prospect that theater owners have it all wrong, that alternative ways of watching a movie actually increases the number of people who will pay to see it without subtracting from their coffers.”
‘Controversy Is The Lifeblood Of The Arts,’ Says Royal Shakespeare Company Founder
Hordes of people seem to be leaving the RSC’s current production of Marat/Sade. Sir Peter Hall, who founded the now iconic company, says that’s ridiculous: “The RSC’s first production of Marat/Sade back in the Sixties was indeed controversial but the reactions then, it seems to me, were more mature than they are now.”
Who’s Got The Power? Not This List Of Arts People
From the locked-out Sotheby’s handlers to young art historians facing life with no tenure, here’s Hyperallergic’s annual list of the art world’s 99 percent.
There Are No Stupid Questions, Unless You Ask Margaret Atwood How She Relaxes
The author of Handmaid’s Tale and The Year of the Flood talks about her most prized possession, her dream superpower – and finishes with a Canadian sex joke.