Five states, 18 cities, free performances – and a plan that reaches far beyond the play itself; “Along with community organizations, public libraries, Rotary clubs, humanities councils, and whoever else is interested, it has encouraged lectures, discussion groups, story circles, and art pieces in the weeks before and after staging a free performance of Sweat. The tour is now over, but the project is not.”
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Jazz Trumpeter Roy Hargrove Has Died At 49
Hargrove’s death would be tragic even if he were in his 90s. But his career was one of expanding influence – and audience. “Hargrove advocated for a bigger audience for jazz, even when he was drawing what most in the medium would consider sizable crowds.”
Why Are Asterisks Getting A New Life On Twitter?
Though this column doesn’t say it, it’s partly to avoid trolls. But other that that, is using an asterisk to substitute for a letter useful? Not really: “Replacing a letter with an asterisk is just pretence.”
Mickey Mouse Is 90, But If You Think This Celebration Is Big, Just Wait Ten Years
Actually, the 90th might just slide right into the centenary: “Disney is using Mickey’s 90th birthday as a monstrous marketing moment, with the company’s cross-promotional machine revved up to what may be its highest level yet. Every corner of the $168 billion company is contributing to the campaign, which will intensify on Sunday when ABC runs ‘Mickey’s 90th Spectacular.’ Disney theme parks will be hosting events into next year.”
Heavily-Marked Glenn Gould Score Of Bach’s “Goldbergs” Turns Up
“I would call this the equivalent of a shooting script of a movie,” said the critic Tim Page, a professor of music and journalism at the University of Southern California and the editor of “The Glenn Gould Reader.” “He keeps track of which takes he likes, and how long they are.”
National Ballet Of Canada Posts Its Ninth Straight Balanced Budget
It was reported at the ballet’s annual general meeting on Thursday that the company had a surplus of $257,000 on revenues of $35.528 million and expenses of $35.271 million.
At Paula Cooper’s First Show 50 Years Ago You Could Have Bought A Carl Andre For $1,500
She was the first gallerist in Soho, at 96 Prince Street, way back in 1968 when that was a desolate area that had just recently been saved from having a highway bulldozed across it by Robert Moses. Donald Judd, who made the desk Cooper sits at to this day, bought an entire five-floor factory building at 101 Spring Street that same year for $68,000, a block south of her new gallery.
Rubin Institute Music Criticism Prizes Awarded
Winners of the 2018 Stephen and Cynthia Rubin Institute for Music Criticism have been announced. Jennifer Gersten, a DMA candidate at Stony Brook University, was chosen by a panel of leading national music critics to receive the $10,000 Rubin Prize in Music Criticism for demonstrating outstanding promise in music criticism. Brin Solomon, an MFA candidate at New York University, was selected as runner-up and received a $1,000 award.
So Just How Are Arts Organizations Supposed To Measure Social Impact?
At the London Film Festival last week, the British Film Institute (BFI) announced it was going to start measuring ‘class and socio-economic background in their funding and staffing’. This move reflects the growing attention given to inequalities in the arts: academic evidence increasingly shows that cultural professions are unequal across ethnicity, gender, age, disability and class. How we measure class and social mobility to reveal inequality is a thorny issue, however.
Standup Comedy’s Killer Weapon? PowerPoint
PowerPoint has long been employed onstage by established comedians like Eugene Mirman and long-running shows like Drunk Education in New York (which Refinery29 explored, among other PowerPoint performance trends, earlier this year), but how did it become the preferred medium for so many young comics at the outset of their careers?