“The bottom line is that classical streaming is here, and, despite the kinks and quirks, it works. The problem of access has been solved. Although classical music is a very small piece of the recording pie, said to be somewhere around 5%, the streamers also claim to have data that suggests that 25% (and maybe more) of all subscribers to streaming services sample classical music at least once.” – Los Angeles Times
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Study: Audience For Visual Arts In UK Dominated By Millennials
The report says that 41% of visual arts audiences are aged between 16 and 34, whereas for other artforms this demographic comprises 13% of visitors. In contrast, 41% of museum audiences are over 65, according to the report. – Arts Professional
The Great Book Scare: When Readers Worried They Might Get Infected
This scare, now mostly forgotten, was a frantic panic during the late 19th and early 20th centuries that contaminated books—particularly ones lent out from libraries—could spread deadly diseases. – Smithsonian
Arts Organizations Risk Peril Over Sources Of Their Income
Max Anderson: “If their portfolios continue to be awash with stocks in petroleum companies, big pharma, and arms merchants, they will remain open to charges of hypocrisy. But if they change course to ensure that their use and investment of funds are guided by an ethical compass, they may weather the storm.” – Apollo
Want To Reignite Your Passion For Theatre? Read This Young Intern’s Account Of Her Summer In New York
“Going to so many shows in such a short period of time underscored the reality that while the majority of Broadway productions are good and worth seeing, the truly great shows are rare, and the atrocious ones even rarer.” – The New York Times
‘Just As Some Novels Supply Their Own Reviews, So Many Reviews Supply Their Own Novels’
Mary-Kay Wilmers, co-founder and longtime editor of the London Review of Books, takes apart the ways that book reviewers do their work. – Literary Hub
Did the New York Festival of Song make it ‘back to the U.S.S.R.?’
NYFOS’s annual August concert at the tip of Long Island’s North Fork is always adventurous, even by its standards. This year’s program set conventional art song (Bizet, Ned Rorem) alongside the likes of Cole Porter, Bob Telson, and (yes) Lennon and McCartney. – David Patrick Stearns
US Senators Ask For Investigation Into Ticketing Services
In a letter to Makan Delrahim, the assistant attorney general in charge of antitrust, the senators, Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut and Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota — both Democrats — called the ticket industry “broken” and complained of “exorbitant fees and inadequate disclosures” in the ticket buying process. – The New York Times
Why The Shakers Danced, And Why Their Dancing Scandalized Other American Protestants
“Shaker dance both embodied and performed a gender-egalitarian community, one whose primary method of reproduction was not sexual.” (They increased their numbers through recruitment, for which their singing and dancing were effective tools.) “But their worship practices were reviled as both promiscuous and racially aberrant.” – JSTOR Daily
Big-Data Read Of 3.5 Million Books Reveals How Men And Women Are Most Described
“Not surprisingly, women in books are beautiful and men are true-hearted! Yup, when positively described, women (or other traditionally gender-specific female nouns, like stewardess or daughter) are almost always considered at the physical level, whereas men are generally described according to their inherent virtue.” – LitHub