“[Sergei Rachmaninoff] refused to allow his live performances to be recorded or broadcast; the recordings we have of him were all made under tightly controlled studio conditions. So the discovery of a recording of the great composer and pianist playing through his recently composed Symphonic Dances – almost certainly recorded covertly, literally behind the pianist’s back – is a major landmark.”
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A New Museum That Has Taken Pains To Be Off The Beaten Path
When Glenstone opens its new facility to the public next month in Potomac, Md., the art museum will do so at a moment when something new is stirring in the art world: a powerful sense that too many museums have become a victim of their own success, and a new paradigm for experiencing art is desperately needed.
Can This Playwright Make Snooker Into Compelling Theatre?
The question seems even more unlikely when one finds out that the play in question is titled The Nap. But the playwright is Richard Bean, who gave us One Man, Two Guvnors. As he tells Roslyn Sulcas, “[Snooker] is sociologically quite interesting, because it’s a working-class game. You read the autobiographies of the top players, the tropes are exactly the same: alcohol, gambling, fast cars, women trouble, dystopian families. That’s your raw material really. At the same time it’s unbelievably difficult, and it’s like playing first violin in the Philharmonic.”
A Plan To Diversify Auditions For Orchestras
Black and Latino musicians make up less than 5 percent of orchestra members. A group made up of 700 orchestras and several nonprofits wants to change that — so the National Alliance for Audition Support launched an effort this year. It provides training and financial assistance to get more black and Latino classical musicians into auditions.
How Dancers Laid Off For The Summer Are Arranging Their Own Solo Tours
“The dancers themselves meticulously organize these tours. They are in charge of fielding requests aligning schedules and flight itineraries, securing their own costumes and music, and then rehearsing for their guest roles — sometimes with an entirely new partner.” Meryl Cates talks to several of them, including such stars as Sara Mearns, about everything that goes into planning the tours and what makes them rewarding.
Do College Librarians Have Academic Freedom? Should They?
The question has become an active issue in the University of California system: employees at UCal’s 100 libraries are pushing to have a clause guaranteeing academic freedom included in the new contract they’re negotiating. The librarians thought the idea was “a no-brainer” and including it in the contract a mere formality, but UCal administrators maintain that the doctrine of academic freedom doesn’t apply to non-teaching staff.
Demand For New York City’s New Culture Pass Is Outrunning Supply
When the new program, which offers a pair of free tickets per year for each of 33 museums and institutions to any city resident with a library card, launched last month, thousands of people applied — and a number of venues quickly ran out of available tickets.
DiDonato ‘Troyens’, Volodos, Tetzlaff Among Winners Of 2018 Gramophone Awards
Christian Tetzlaff’s Bartók Violin Concertos won the Concerto category, with Arcadi Volodos taking the Instrumental prize for his recent Brahms solo disc. Among other honorees are a period-instrument Ravel Daphnis et Chloé (Orchestral), mezzo Marianne Crebassa accompanied by Fazil Say (Solo Vocal), the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir singing Pärt and Schnittke (Choral), and the choir Blue Heron for the last of a five-disc set of never-before-recorded early Tudor sacred music.
In Two Years Acting In Lynn Nottage’s ‘Sweat’, Here’s What One Cast Member Has Learned
John Earl Jelks: “If you live in L.A. or New York or Chicago or one of these major cities, you don’t really think about these people, but 100 miles outside of any of these places, life is so different … How did we end up forgetting about these people? Because that’s what happened.”
Keith Cerny Explains Why He Left Calgary Opera So Soon To Go Back To Dallas-Fort Worth
At the very end of last year, Cerny abruptly terminated his successful eight-year run at the helm of The Dallas Opera to head Calgary Opera — and eight months after that, at the start of this week, he announced that he was turning right back around to North Texas, taking the CEO position at the Fort Worth Symphony. In a Q&A, he explains it all to Gregory Sullivan Isaacs.