“Decay and loss is the point. If ISIS knocks down the columns, or dynamites the carved lion’s head I found lying around that day, the disaster will be survivable. … I’ll take some consolation knowing the site has been explored and recorded by waves of archaeologists for more than a century. We know Palmyra’s secrets, and cannot lose them.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
So, *Are* College Students Customers Of Higher Education?
Nope. “That analogy needs to die. It needs to be drowned in the world’s largest bathtub. It needs a George R.R. Martin–esque bloodbath of a demise.”
How Juilliard Is Changing Early Music – And Contemporary Music, Too
“After just five years our students now play as regulars or ‘deps’ – or stand-ins – in pretty much all of the main North American period instrument orchestras, as well as in Europe and in their own new groups. Will it one day reach saturation point? I don’t know. But we certainly haven’t come close to that yet.”
Artists Need To Be Able To Take Risks, But How Can That Work Without A Welfare State?
“There’s not much point hanging a big welcome sign above the box office if the stage door is clearly barred to anyone without a financial safety net.”
Can The Germans Fix Opera In New York?
“Accustomed to hearing opera at the Met, where the average attendee is more likely than not on Medicare, I was bewildered at the number of kids—high schoolers barely over Platée’s recommended minimum age of 14—crowding the auditorium.”
A Story About Brothers, Rams And A Remote Iceland Valley Won At The Cannes Festival’s ‘Sidebar’
Of course it did. And “the top prizes for the main selection will be awarded on Sunday night during the closing ceremony at the Palais des Festivals in Cannes.”
The Bookstore That ‘Wimpy Kid’ Built
“With this foray into retailing, Mr. Kinney is joining a handful of authors who are injecting cash and a dose of literary celebrity into what seemed a dying trade.”
Should Opera Singers Stop Providing Printed Translations?
“In hearing the texts we focused on the words, their meanings and — importantly — their ideas on their own. We listened attentively during these spoken passages and then, with the texts fresh in our minds, we listened more actively to the music that both singer and pianist produced. And, as Blythe wanted, we were looking at her and she at us.”
The English National Ballet Prepares To Move To Its New Home In East London
“The aim is to ‘create a new space that allows us to produce and rehearse amazing work,’ said the ENB’s artistic director, Tamara Rojo, adding that the facilities could also be used by other organisations. She said: ‘I want the space to echo to the sound of creative Britain.'”
Why Jhumpa Lahiri Quit The U.S. For Italy – And Wrote A Book In Italian
“After a lifetime of feeling that she never quite fitted into either India or the US, Lahiri feels a casa (‘at home’) in Rome. She recently wrote about her Italian metamorphosis in a ‘linguistic autobiography’, titled In Altre Parole (‘In Other Words’), which hit Italian bookstores in January.”