It’s a weird, stunning space, but no one yet knows how its acoustics will (or won’t) deliver.
Author: ArtsJournal2
That Time The Guardian Hosted Haruki Murakami Talking With Seiji Ozawa About Music, Creativity, And Everything
Novelist Murakami says of conductor Ozawa: “We both maintain the same ‘hungry heart’ we possessed in our youth, that persistent feeling that ‘this is not good enough,’ that we must dig deeper, forge farther ahead. This is the major motif of our work and our lives.”
The Making Of A Countertenor
Anthony Costanzo has been in demand for decades – but only to sing very old or very modern roles. That is the curse and blessing of the countertenor.
The British Government Just Pulled All Of Its Funding From The New, Simon Rattle-Backed Concert Hall
A former culture minister offered more than £5 million, of which more than a fourth has been spent … and now the government has simply decided that the rest has to be returned to them because the proposed Centre for Music “doesn’t offer value for the taxpayer.”
Innocent Abroad: An American Bookseller Goes To The Frankfurt Book Fair
So this experiment goes well: “I apologize a lot. I try to assure the international book community that not all of America has lost its goddamn mind.”
A Deep Meditation On What Emma Rice Meant To The Globe
The U.S. and Britain don’t have public investigations of theatres’ artistic direction, though Germany does. Perhaps the Globe’s seemingly peremptory dismissal of recently hired AD Emma Rice over lighting will lead Britain to figure that out a little more clearly – together, before hiring a new artistic director.
The L.A. Opera Casts A White Man To Play A Pharoah, And Protests Arrive On Schedule
Will L.A. Opera’s claim to colorblind casting – and the need for a very fit countertenor – help calm the troubled waters?
Top Posts From AJBlogs For The Weekend 11.06.16
This Week In Understanding Audiences: Interactive Theatre, Arts Video And Artificial Intelligence This Week: Theatre used to be more interactive – can it be again?… There’s an awful lot of arts video out there – but what do audiences want?… Can you shame an arts organization into … read more
AJBlog: AJ Arts Audience Published 2016-11-06
Born in Vail
Vail Dance Festival: Re-Mix NYC performs at City Center, November 3 through 6. Vail Re-Mix performers in 1-2-3-4-5-6 (L to R): Lil Buck, Michelle Dorrance, Robert Fairchild, and Melissa Toogood. Photo: Erin Baiano Damien Woetzel … read more
AJBlog: Dancebeat Published 2016-11-06
Bob Cranshaw, 1932-2016
Bassist Bob Cranshaw succumbed to bone cancer yesterday at his home in New York City. He was 83. He may be best remembered as Sonny Rollins’s bassist for more than half a century, but Cranshaw’s … read more
AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2016-11-05
Lit Crawl L.A./ North Hollywood
THE other night I ventured out to Los Angeles’s North Hollywood neighborhood for the latest installment of Lit Crawl L.A. This annual night out has been going since 2013, but for various reasons I’ve … read more
AJBlog: CultureCrashPublished 2016-11-04
An Actor Who Was Ready To Quit Sexist Hollywood, Returning In Triumph
Amy Adams might have gotten paid peanuts to her male co-stars’ big bucks in “American Hustle,” but she’s on fire in Hollywood right now: “She is a 42-year-old woman whose name can get a movie made – and pretty much any kind of movie. … In terms of sheer variety, to find her equal you’d have to look towards Meryl Streep.”
Let’s Talk About ‘The Missing Middle’ In Music
“Why is no one discussing this? Whatever your own aesthetics, much like the idea that biodiversity equals ecosystem resilience, you should not want to see this branch of creative activity, from composers young and old, squeezed out of existence the way it has seemed to be lately.”