Even beyond the bombshell article from July accusing prominent men in the field of harassment, the “male-dominated field creates a ‘toxic culture’ that silences women in the profession and has kept a full reckoning from taking place. … 85 to 90 percent of the news imagery we consume is created by men. Last year, 90 percent of the images that The New York Times ran on their front page was made by men.”
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What Are Orchestral Musicians For?
Musicians can, with the right management in place, identify not as “us vs them,” but as part of the big circle of the orchestra.
Does Technology Make For Far, Far Better Piano Lessons?
Online lessons have changed the way many students learn the piano, especially jazz – and maybe made learning better and faster. Perhaps there is “something about the peculiar intimacy of the online lesson — the way it permits a student to scrutinize a teacher’s subtlest movements — that has transformed the learning process.”
The Cleveland Orchestra Suspends Another Player, Its Principal Trombonist, For Harassment
The trombonist, Massimo La Rosa, has filed his own lawsuit “accusing two people of defamation for alleging that he ‘had committed and was criminally culpable for multiple sexual assaults on numerous college campuses [where La Rosa] had been invited to serve as a guest instructor.’ The orchestra did not specify whether the current suspension was related to the same or similar allegations.”
The Netflix Morning Meeting (A Satire Of Sorts)
Ahem:
“It’s just what we need. Ryan Murphy will be showrunner. It’ll be about a sexy horror alphabet.”
“I think it’s about apartments.”
“Even better. Give apartments $4 billion, tell them to get campy fast.”
“Which ones?”
“Ones in Seattle. Big ones. Two-bedrooms or bigger.”
Ten Reasons Why We (And Literature) Love Lists
Actually, not a list of lists, but some questions and thoughts: “Is there such a thing as a happy list in literature? The blithe verbal sum of possessions, achievements or experiences? Isn’t the very act of setting such things down evidence of some vexation, a clue that something is missing? The collector’s catalogue, the merchant’s tally, the seducer’s black book: they are all examples of compensating control. Compensation for what? For a scouring anxiety, or cumbrous melancholy?”
San Francisco Removes A Statue Of A Native Man Lying At The Feet Of A Missionary
The statue was near City Hall, part of the Pioneer Monument that was put up in 1894 – and which Native peoples in and near the city have been protesting for decades. There’s a lawsuit, of course, but the city didn’t destroy the statue; workers moved it into storage. “After the truck carrying the statue rolled away, the onlookers gathered in a large circle, where Dee Dee Ybarra, an Ohlone tribal leader who advocated for the statue’s removal, led the crowd in a traditional chant and a prayer for empathy and understanding.”
Will The New Tax Code Spur On Or Tamp Down The ‘Art As Investment’ Mania?
The tax code, which favors a class that can buy art, also takes away a tool that the ultra-rich used to sell the art they had collected. One art advisor: “The effect won’t be negligible.”
Sarah Waters On How Her Novel – Now Movie – ‘The Little Stranger’ Is A Perfect Metaphor For Brexit Britain
The author says of her horror novel and new movie: “After Brexit is Britain going to be a kind of Hundreds Hall, a decaying place with a big wall around it, with an inflated idea of itself, endlessly trying to keep alive a mythical kind of world?”
As It Turns 150, We Need To Talk About The Deep Weirdness And Complexity Of ‘Little Women’
The thing about Little Women was that it wasn’t telling girls and women to be “girly,” or that being independent – and fierce – was a bad thing. The book “was that unusual thing, a classic that is also an instant hit. It was wildly popular from the moment it was published, in two parts, starting in 1868. … The book was also revolutionary, in its way.”