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The San Antonio Symphony Came Back Almost As Soon As It Left

The season will be abbreviated, and the new chair of the board won’t say where the money’s coming from, but it’s on, and “people are dancing in the streets.”

The Mysterious Practice-Room Pianist Who Could Mirror Anyone’s Repertoire

“It is kind of unusual when you have the opportunity to transform these moments when you’re in the cell of a practice room by yourself into a moment actually of communication or connection.”

Dear New York Times: Um, Here’s What An Actual Sensitivity Reader Does

In 2014, calls started to spike for more diverse books. And publishing houses and writers responded – with white writers writing more books about people of color. Dhonielle Clayton, who co-founded We Need Diverse Books and the Cake Literary Agency and who has a book of her own coming out in February, says the freak-out about sensitivity readers should really be focused there: “The fact is that sensitivity reading is a band-aid over a hemorrhaging problem in our industry. That’s what we should really be talking about — that’s what real censorship looks like. The systematic erasure and blockage of people of color from the publishing industry.”

French Singer, Eurovision Winner France Gall Dies At 70

The singer, whose ending of a relationship with another singer inspired the French song that eventually turned into Frank Sinatra’s “My Way,” recorded her first hit when she was 16 and won Eurovision for Luxembourg in 1965.

National Society Of Film Critics Gives Its Awards, Many Of Them To ‘Lady Bird’

Greta Gerwig won for direction and screenplay; Laurie Metcalf for supporting actress; and the movie itself won best movie from the 59 critics who vote in these awards. “Get Out” was quite close to winning both best screenplay and best picture as well. (See all the results in the article.)

How Will The 2018 Golden Globes Play Out?

Well, there’s the everyone wearing black to protest sexual assault in Hollywood part; there’s the no-Trump-jokes from host Seth Myers part; and then there are the awards themselves. “The annual Oscar race, which starts with festival screenings in late summer, has been unusually chaotic this time around. For various reasons — Hollywood’s attention has been elsewhere, the plethora of strong choices in some categories and few in others — consensus has yet to form. So the Globes could bring some clarity.”

The ‘Grandfather Of Diversity’ In Ballet

Arthur Mitchell “was inspired to form Dance Theater after the 1968 assassination of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. But before that, Mr. Mitchell broke the color wall in ballet by becoming the first African-American principal dancer at New York City Ballet.” He has always “been driven by the belief that dance can effect social change.”

Will Kurt Schwitters’ Last Art Studio – A Stone Barn In Britain’s Lake District – Be Bought And Shipped To China?

The building’s owner has failed to win funds to keep the building up – and after five attempts, it seems impossible. Why it’s important: “The Merz Barn in Langdale, Cumbria, was used by the German artist Kurt Schwitters, after he fled from the Nazis in 1940. The building became regarded as a pioneering piece of modernist art after Schwitters covered its walls in a distinctive collage of materials before his death in 1948.”

Author Carmen Maria Machado On Writing Sex Scenes In Her Literary, Genre-Crossing Short Stories

Machado’s debut book, Her Body and Other Parties was a finalist for the National Book Award, and she was interviewed by the Paris Review about it as well. So of course The Guardian asks her about writing sex. “What’s the secret?” the paper asks. The reply: “Letting some sex scenes be pleasurable, letting bodies be real.”