The best setting of Walt Whitman’s words by an American composer may just be a 30-minute radio play by Norman Corwin and Bernard Herrmann. – Joe Horowitz
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Hot Nights at the Barbican
The hottest tickets in London last Saturday, on the hottest day in London for at least forty years, were both at the Barbican — the Lee Krasner retrospective and Rattle conducting the LSO in Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen – Paul Levy
Recent Listening In Brief (Very Brief)
Peter Furlan Project, Between The Lines (Beany Bops Music)
Stan Getz: Getz At The Gate (Verve)
– Doug Ramsey
Help For Dave Frishberg
Pianist, singer and songwriter Dave Frishberg has suffered medical setbacks that have led him and his wife April to seek help in meeting his long-term health care needs. – Doug Ramsey
Would You Trust A Robot More If It Had A Sense Of Humor?
Some scientists believe if robots can master conversational humor, and speak like the people they serve, it could help humans accept them as part of our lives. But is that even scientifically possible? – Daily Beast
End Of Anonymity? AI Can Match Anonymous Writing With Its Author
An artificial intelligence, or AI, successfully “recognizes” an author not as a person, but instead as the likeness of features that characterize a body of work. In order to find patterns across texts, the algorithmic “reader” uses a collection of textual traits—like frequently used words or punctuation—to draw conclusions about who wrote what.
Ideas And Progress Flow From Chaos And Complexity Of Ideas – But We’re Retreating From That
Felipe Fernández-Armesto: ‘Confused by chaos, infantilized by ignorance, refugees from complexity flee to fanaticism and dogma.’ But something else is happening too. Human history was formerly all about divergence; now, as cultural differences are eroded, we are converging. The result, according to his hypothesis, will in the end be a slowing down of the imagination and ideas.” – Spectator
The Digital Age Has Been Unkind To Classical Music (It’s About The Meta-Data)
Browsing and accessing classical music online has been a chore. The data structures were set up for pop music, not classical. Finally, companies are working on some solutions. – The New York Times
Want To See A Model Of LACMA’s Redesign?
LACMA has dedicated a space to the exhibition of the new plan with a 15-foot model built in Zumthor’s studio. The site model is a single slab of molded cement, reproducing several blocks of the Miracle Mile with abstracted precision to focus attention on an all-white volumetric model of the LACMA addition. – Archinect
A Thorough Consideration Of Access To The Arts In The Internet Age
The challenges vary between access to the consumption of art and access to making and platforming it. In this multimedia age, these have to an extent blurred. However, a hierarchy remains. – Ken Taylor