“Alfie Boe, the romantic tenor who led celebrations outside Buckingham Palace at the Queen’s diamond jubilee concert, has threatened to storm parliament if music education funding in Britain does not improve.”
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Women Experimental And Indie Filmmakers Get A Streaming Platform
“It reaches new audiences, and it kind of revives these works that otherwise would be difficult to see.”
Universal Settles Over ‘Best Little Whorehouse In Texas’ Home Video Royalties
“The policy of basing profit participation on 20 percent of home video revenues derives from the rise of VCR in the 1980s. The studios would pay independent companies to produce and distribute VHS copies of their films and would receive 20 percent of the revenue, which they would then divide out to the profit participants. When studios opened their own home distribution divisions, they continued calculating the profit participants’ earnings from 20 percent of the home-video revenues.”
The Main Problems With This Plan About Giving Ebooks To Poor Kids
“Publishers aren’t giving kids a quarter of a billion dollars’ worth of free books. They’re free e-books. Which require two things: A good Internet connection — at least at school if not at home — and some sort of device to read them. And that’s a challenge.”
Star Trek’s George Takei Helps Japanese American National Museum Save Art And Artifacts From Internment Camps
“‘Many of the photos picture peoples’ grandparents and parents, and there’s a strong emotional tie there,’ said Takei, who as a boy was imprisoned in two internment camps with his family. ‘To put that up on the auction block to the highest bidder, where it would just disappear into someone’s collection, was insensitive.'”
This Modernist Villa Saw Wartime Shootings And Murders, And Was Vandalized By Le Corbusier
“E1027 was the first architectural work of the designer Eileen Gray, completed in 1929 when she was 51 years old. It was a pioneering and accomplished work of the modern movement in architecture, putting into practice ideas that were still new. More than that, it brought essential qualities into building that other modernists lacked.”
Fighting Canada’s Theatre Gender Gap
“Here in the Cage we believe that making theatre is like making a child: If you want to be truly successful, you need more than just a penis.”
Cities And Suburbs Can Work Together Instead Of Competing – And It’s Better For Everyone
“‘It’s an approach to regionalism that’s about creating a culture instead of a legal structure,’ Clark adds. ‘People want to behave at the highest level of ethics, provided the guy next door does, too.'”
The Ballet Of Virginia Woolf
“The delicate textures of her prose, the fractured narratives, the internal music have, quite reasonably, been assumed to be too complex to choreograph. wayne McGregor is challenging that assumption with Woolf Works, his new full-length production for the Royal Ballet.”
A Nearly Lost Harlem Renaissance Opera Returns To NY
“The presenters said they believe that the revival of ‘Voodoo’ will mark its first performances since 1928, when it had its premiere at the Palm Garden in New York more than a decade after it was composed.”