In Washington, Andrew Jorgensen worked with Francesca Zambello on casting of such highlights as the 2016 “Ring” cycle and “Appomattox,” as well as the new operas commissioned for the annual American Opera Initiative. Jorgensen will only be the fourth leader in St. Louis’s 43-year history, after the founding director Richard Gaddes and his successor Charles MacKay, both of whom subsequently led the Santa Fe Opera.
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120,000 ClassicFM Listeners Voted For Their Favorite Piece Of Music
Tchaikovsky had 14 entries in the Classic FM Hall of Fame, revealed on Monday. Mozart was the most popular composer, with 23 works in the Top 300.
Lincoln Center President Abruptly Quits After Only A Year
The specific reasons for Debora Spar’s abrupt exit are so far unclear. In her letter, she wrote, “We understand you may have questions about this change,” adding that there would be a meeting of the center’s staff on Monday at noon, when “we will have the opportunity to discuss the transition and answer your questions in person.”
How Selfie-Driven Museums Are Driven By Their Business Model
The design of selfie-driven “museums” seems to align with other experiential selfie spots like Color Factory, 29Rooms, and Dream Room. They revolve a highly successful business model: sell tickets for $35 to people itching to Instagram themselves, then immerse them in hyperpigmented landscapes funded by corporate sponsors.
Now What? Data Show UK Theatre Companies’ Gender Pay Gap
In total, 44 companies working in the performing arts reported the difference between men and women’s salaries, with a median hourly pay gap of 7% in favour of male employees. This means when comparing median hourly rates, women are paid 93p for every £1 paid to men. The median pay difference of the total 10,015 firms that published their figures was 9.7%, meaning arts companies came out more favourably than the average. The national median is 18.4%.
Data: Here’s What Makes A Bestseller
“Approximately the same amount of hardcovers are being sold today as they were in past years,” writes a research team led by Albert-László Barbási. “The increasing availability of books in the digital format has [had] no influence on hardcover sales.” OK, but what types of books typically take off? Barbasi and his colleagues report they tend to be works of fiction or biographies/memoirs.
Symbolic Debate Over Ancient Gospel Manuscripts Hidden In Remote Monastery
The ongoing dispute over where and how the gospels should be kept, and who may see them, is intensely local yet symbolic. It revolves around the age-old traditions of an isolated monastery, but it exemplifies the scepticism sometimes aroused by Western heritage programmes. It encapsulates the rival claims of sacred rites and secular scholarship, raising questions about the aim of preservation and the ultimate ownership of a nation’s culture.
Journalism’s “Revolutionize This” Problem
Google tells me that between 2000 and 2010, could revolutionize appeared on indexable websites fewer than fourteen thousand times. Since then, it’s seen what venture capitalists might call hockey-stick growth, increasing from six thousand instances in 2011 to thirteen thousand in 2014 to thirty thousand in 2017. Four months into 2018, could revolutionize has appeared on the internet nearly twenty thousand times. It’s possible that the sharp spike in popularity of could revolutionize mirrors Silicon Valley’s ascension in our collective consciousness. But which is the chicken, and which is the egg?
Did This Scholar Just Figure Out How To Reconstruct Ancient Greek Music?
We know that most ancient Greek poetry was meant to be sung; we know a lot about the instruments, the rhythms, and the music theory. A few examples of notated melody have survived the millennia. Oxford classicist Armand d’Angour has put all the evidence together. (includes video)
Utopia Is Unattainable. So How About A Protopia?
Protopia is a state that is better today than yesterday, although it might be only a little better. Protopia is much much harder to visualise. Because a protopia contains as many new problems as new benefits, this complex interaction of working and broken is very hard to predict.