The 36-year-old Israeli takes over the Manchester-based broadcasting orchestra next season, succeeding Juanjo Mena. He is also chief conductor at the Semperoper in Dresden.
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Violinist Leila Josefowicz Wins $100,000 Avery Fisher Prize
When she was given the prize on Thursday night, she was performing with the New York Philharmonic in Stravinsky’s Violin Concerto — which, as reporter Michael Cooper observes, “counts almost as early music for her.”
MacArthur Fellows For 2018 Include Composer, Violinist, Playwright, Choreographer, Filmmaker/Performance Artist
Among this year’s winners of the five-year, $625,000 “genius” grants are violinist/social justice advocate Vijay Gupta, artist/curator Julie Ault, composer/conductor Matthew Aucoin, playwright Dominique Morisseau, choreographer Okwui Okpokwasili, poet Natalie Diaz, media scholar Lisa Parks, and filmmaker/performance artist Wu Tsang.
Competing Ideas Of Diversity Create Some Losers
Over the last several years, competing notions of “diversity” have emerged. In many corners, the traditional definition, focused on demographic diversity, has been eclipsed by a new concept centered on experiential or cognitive differences. Deloitte, a provider of advisory services to firms around the globe, including 85% of the Fortune 500, encapsulates the trend, noting, “Up to now, diversity initiatives have focused primarily on fairness for legally protected populations. But organizations now have an opportunity to harness a more powerful and nuanced kind of diversity: diversity of thought.”
What Exactly Is A “Private” Museum, Anyway?
In a country full of museums, however, the purpose of private museums — a broadly defined type of institution based on a single collector’s vision — isn’t always clear — besides, that is, giving an uber-wealthy art collector a glitzy vanity project and perhaps a tax write-off. What such museums offer, says one expert, is an opportunity to see art that might otherwise be hanging in a wealthy home or stuck in storage.
How Evidence-Based Marketing Grew Royal Opera House Revenues By £400,000 In Six Months
“Previously, social media was delivering great reach and PR but not converting to sales.” They are now using sophisticated analysis to track posts and put money behind content that gets a good reaction, then automatically ‘throwing good money after good’ – the opposite to what often happens in arts marketing, where spend is usually focused on difficult-to-sell inventory.
Where Did The Idea Of Copyrighting Performances Come From?
If you’ve ever tried to get permission to perform a play, you’ve probably encountered some issues having to do with theatrical copyright. But where did the concept of copyrighting theatrical works come from? What do the legal wrangles over who owns the rights to a performance say about the nature of theatre?
Losses From This Summer’s Wildfire Cancellations Lead Oregon Shakespeare Festival To Lay Off 16
OSF declined to name any of the jobs or people that were let go, but issued a statement saying “This summer’s smoke and air quality issues (led) to significant financial losses … These events renewed and reinvigorated our continual efforts to analyze our systems and sustainability … We have committed ourselves to updating our processes and realigning our organization, ensuring we identify every way possible to place OSF on a stable path that will empower us to continue to serve the community.”
Has Unstable Leadership Doomed Barnes & Noble?
The industry could have a lot riding on the next 18 months at Barnes and Noble. After years of upheaval and disappointing sales, it’s not clear whether Barnes and Noble can continue as a viable, if diminished, retail alternative to Amazon, or if, as our anonymous curmudgeon suggests, its time to start planning a funeral.
When ‘Crossworditis’ Was Like Reefer Madness
In a feature introducing The Atlantic‘s new daily online mini-crossword, Adrienne LaFrance looks back to the pearl-clutching that accompanied the appearance, and rapid popularity, of crossword puzzles in newspapers just over a century ago. ” Doctors warned of the dreaded ‘crossword-puzzle headache.’ … Puzzles were banned in courthouses, where distracted public officials played on the job. … Newspapers reported an uptick of women divorcing puzzle-obsessed husbands. … People worried that puzzles would replace literature, that the utility of three-letter words — gnu! emu! eel! — would rewire people’s brains.”