Well, that’s a new one: At its next free outdoor concert, the Kentucky Symphony Orchestra is offering “a 5K run and boot camp workout for those so inclined and a delightful outdoor evening concert of popular classics for the rest of us.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
Germany’s Most Embarrassing Musical Export
It might not even be an export. It might only be possible within Germany: “Of the current top five albums on the German charts, two are schlager records. To put it into perspective, that would be like if the number three and four albums on the US Billboard Hot 100 were Christian rock about cats.”
Trump Administration Policies May Threaten Land Around Michael Heizer’s ‘City’
Argh: Ryan Zinke, Secretary of the Interior, said, “I don’t think there’s too much question that a monument can be adjusted. Whether a monument can be rescinded or not, that is a question for the courts.”
The Surprising Ways ‘Dunkirk’ Reimagines History
Christopher Nolan’s film leaves out the enemy, for one thing. And then there’s Winston Churchill – or rather, there is no Winston Churchill in Dunkirk.
Howards End Was Fictional, But You Can Go See It Anyway
And you can visit Pemberley and Manderley, and you can visit and revist Brideshead should you so desire. (Why does British literature depend so very much on houses?)
Get Alarmed About PBS Funding Again
According to PBS chief Paula Kerger, ““PBS itself will not go away, but a number of our stations will. … There isn’t a plan B for that.”
Artists May Be Wresting Back Some Control From Galleries
Mark Grotjahn is the leader and the exemplar of an artist who controls his prices, partly because he has non-exclusive deals with four galleries.
This Essay Will Make You Question Everything About ‘Wonder Woman’
Why are critics so moved by this film? Really, why? “Like so many recent girl-power extravaganzas that seek to celebrate what a long way we’ve come, baby, it ends up illustrating precisely the opposite.”
The NYT’s Chief Classical Critic Is Not OK With The President’s Invocation Of Symphonies
Words you might not have expected from Anthony Tommasini: “‘Eleanor Rigby,’ I’d argue, is just as profound as Mahler’s ‘Resurrection’ Symphony.”
Composer Gilles Tremblay, Whose Music And Teaching Shaped Contemporary Music In Quebec, Has Died At 85
“Tremblay had students discover a universe where history wasn’t presented as a series of ruptures (between different musical eras), but instead presented as a continuous search for a personal and lively expression of music.”