Let’s face it, most people don’t read any plays at all before high school. “To introduce teens to plays on the page with Shakespeare is akin to teaching calculus to students before they’ve learned algebra, or even multiplication.”
Category: AUDIENCE
The Six Stories We Tell Again And Again
So this team of scientists starts using math to analyze books, and they decide there are six story arcs. But wait: “The book that fit the Icarus arc best was a collection of 196 yoga sutras.”
The Factory Practice Of Reading Out Loud Inspired And Mobilized Workers In Cigar Factories
This is a story of the human readers – called “lectors” – and their political affiliations, and how technology changed everything.
Boulder Ballet Tries A ‘Gentle’ Nutcracker For Audience Members With Autism
The Ballet, along with the Boulder Phil, is trying out a “sensory-friendly” ballet for kids and adults who may need to move or make sounds during the performance. Lights will be up at 35 percent, staff are on hand to answer questions, there’s a designated ‘quiet room’ and much more.
How The Sounds Of Nature – All Cleaned Up – Became Major Commodities In The Record Industry
A man named Irv Teibel took the idea of musique concrète – which is, after all, what recordings of outdoor sounds are – and hustled it into a commercial relaxation-aid that fit perfectly with the America of the late ’60s and ’70s.
The Story Of The Casio And ‘The Tinny Electronic Music Revolution It Fostered’
“In the late 1970s, a man who had changed the business world by turning massive calculators into handheld devices decided that he wanted to scratch another itch. And with that itch scratched, he introduced a world of creativity to bedroom warriors around the country – a set of training wheels to the musically inclined.”
A National Museum Reopens After 72 Years – With A Religious Kerfuffle, In One Of Europe’s Least Religious Countries
At issue is a digital artwork showing an image of the Virgin Mary: press a button and it shatters. (The artist says the piece is about iconoclasm.)
Subsidizing Arts Tickets Hasn’t Succeeded In Broadening The Arts Audience. So Maybe Something Different?
“The uncanny similarities between this year’s Culture White Paper and its 1965 ancestor (along with the Warwick Commission and much other research) show that this hasn’t really produced an arts sector that enfranchises everyone, despite the best intentions of policymakers. Countless initiatives (and millions of pounds) have been spent trying to shift the demographic profile of arts audiences and workers in the sector. They have remained stubbornly white and well-off.”
Critical Juncture – The Role (And Reach) Of Critics Is Changing
Once, critics like Trilling, Sontag, and Kael commanded the attention of a large audience and were expected to shape and challenge a still roughly homogenous public opinion. Today, many critics struggle to find a unified culture to interpret and criticize and a public to address. As A.O. Scott insists, the critic’s role is “to disagree, to refuse to look at anything simply as what it is,” and yet in an age in which critics often are forced to set their sights on films like Avengers: Age of Ultron, it appears that the critic can be nothing other than “the vanguard of pointing out the obvious.”
Classical And Pop Music Produce Different Responses In The Brain, Say Researchers
The way they’re putting this may not go over so well with some folks, though: “‘This study gives clear neuronal evidence supporting the view that artistic music is of intelligence, while popular music is of physiology,’ writes a team of researchers led by Ping Huang of South China Normal University in Guangzhou.”