The 50-year-old singer was in Spain, and her performances have been canceled for the next three months. “Local newspaper Diario de Leon reported Monday that Studer had received rapid medical attention and was diagnosed as having suffered a mild heart attack. She had been scheduled to perform Friday at the Auditorium of the City of Leon.”
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Can “David” Cause “Mental Imbalance”?
So says one of Florence’s top researchers, who has studied more than 100 people who have been rushed to hosptital after collapsing. “The artistic intoxication is caused by a combination of several things, including the stress of the trip, an ‘overdose’ of beautiful art and the degree of sensitivity of the person. We should not forget that a work of art is a very powerful stimulus and can stimulate memories in our unconscious, sometimes triggering a crisis.”
Movielink To Deliver Hundreds Of Movies Online
Movielink signs up Fox to make available hundreds of movies online. “Movielink was formed several years ago as a joint venture of five Hollywood studios to provide a legal alternative for consumers who want to download movies to personal computers. The studios are concerned that sites offering illegally copied movies will diminish their revenues. But the studios also see the Internet as a lucrative, future way to reach customers directly. Film downloading, unlike music, has been slow to develop as few homes had the high-speed Web connections needed to quickly get movies.”
‘Phantom’ To Break Longest-Running Record
On January 9, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “The Phantom of the Opera” will become the longest running show in Broadway history. “The performance will be number 7,486 — surpassing the current champion Cats, which held at 7,485 shows and was also written by Webber.”
‘Rent’ – From Stage To Screen
Taking the Broadway hit to the screen is a tricky thing. “Rent is the eighth-longest-running show in Broadway history, and since 1996 has grossed $460 million from its various North American productions. And Rentheads attending early film screenings are having a go at the movie online, parsing all 2 hours 10 minutes of it, song by song by song.”
Remaking The Video Experience
It will still be a while before video on demand makes it possible to see whatever you want whenever you want it. “With the rise of portable video devices, viewers are starting to change the way they watch television. The networks, meanwhile, don’t want to be left behind. In many ways, TV is where the music industry was five years ago when Napster came on the scene. Having the benefit of those lessons in how to lose the revenues and the attention of a fan base, television networks are seeking renumerative new ways to distribute their programs.”
The Audubon Tragedy Enters Its Final Act
There may never have been a more tragic or bizarre breakup in the classical music world than that of the Audubon Quartet. Six years ago, three members of the Roanoke, Virginia-based group fired their first violinist, David Ehrlich, who promptly sued to prevent the quartet from continuing to perform without him. Since then, recriminations and lawsuits have flown unabated, bitterly dividing Roanoke’s musical community and making several attorneys very rich. The courts have sided mainly with Ehrlich, and this month, two members of the quartet will be forced to surrender their home, their possessions, and – no kidding – the instruments with which they make their living, to pay the $611,000 court award to Ehrlich.
Finding Comedy At Its Source
Does your birthplace have anything to do with how funny you are? It would seem unlikely at first blush, but haven’t we all had the experience of meeting people from an area totally unlike our own, and being stunned at their lack of humor? The Guardian has quantified the phenomenon (albeit in an almost totally unscientific manner) and mapped the most and least humorous places in Great Britain. London, not surprisingly, comes out looking pretty funny, as do Glasgow and Wales. Birmingham, it turns out, is quite unfunny, and something called East Anglia is apparently brutally somber.
Warhol, Pollock Stolen From Scranton Museum
“Two pieces – Andy Warhol’s silk-screen print ‘Le Grande Passion’ and a painting by abstract expressionist artist Jackson Pollock titled ‘Springs Winter’ – were taken from the Everhart Museum’s main gallery at about 2:30 a.m., a museum spokesman said. Scranton police were notified minutes after the thieves tripped the museum’s motion sensors. The thieves appeared to have been aided by a large tent covering the museum’s back entrance for an event.”
Why We Go
The cultural cognoscenti love to draw comparisons between art, music, and theatre patrons who are in it for the love of the form, and those who show up mainly for social reasons, or simply to get themselves noticed by other “arts people.” But is there any real truth to this longstanding legend of the self-interested patron? According to a new study which focuses on why people attend cultural events, the legend is true, to a degree. “The most common major motivation claimed by respondents for attending any or all arts events over the last 12 months was wanting to socialize with friends and family, followed by having an emotionally rewarding experience and gaining knowledge.” But arts organizations might want to take note of the study’s other finding: attendees are rarely completely satisfied with the experience.