“It is discriminatory — and it’s not just about bathrooms. It’s about dignity, like [U.S. Attorney General] Loretta Lynch said. I’ve been an advocate of equality for the disabled, and this is just another situation in which this is the subject. We are dealing with the equality and dignity of citizens.”
Category: music
‘Jazz Shouldn’t Be Something People Do As A Painful Process Of Cultural Education’
Ted Gioia talks to Scott Timberg: “Jazz shouldn’t be a kind of nutritional supplement. … This music is exciting. … In every step of its evolution jazz shook up things, and not just the music world, it shook up the culture.”
The Subterranean Sound Chamber Meant To Host An Invisible Orchestra
“When layers of paint and cracked and peeling render were stripped in a £6m repair project on the terrace, intricate brickwork and hidden funnels in the ceiling were revealed.”
What The Canadian Opera/National Post Review-Spiking Affair Portends
“I don’t think anyone will notice the difference soon, but it will be arts organisations like the COC who will lose most from the absence of critics in the mainstream press.”
SF Opera Music Director Nicola Luisotti To Step Down
The 55-year-old conductor announced that he won’t renew his contract when it expires at the end of the 2017-2018 season. He said, “I want the company’s General Director Designate Matthew Shilvock to be able to move freely into the future.”
Opera Company Fusses To Editor About Review; Editor Kills Review, Says He Hates Reviews Anyway; Critic Quits; Opera Company Says ‘Don’t Blame Us’
The Canadian Opera Company says that all it wanted was two little corrections to Arthur Kaptainis’s review in the National Post of its current production, not for the review to be taken offline. Michael Vincent reviews the emails between the COC and the editor, and finds that things are not that simple.
‘This Isn’t A Condemnation, But A Challenge’ – Anne Midgette On The Canadian Opera/National Post Review-Spiking Affair
“What it shows is a waning understanding of, and tolerance for, not differences of opinion – those rage happily on in every paper’s Comments sections – but the role of criticism and the arts in a society where they have less dominance. [The National Post features editor] will be vilified in the arts community for his comments, but he’s right: newspaper reviews don’t do well online. This isn’t a condemnation, but a challenge.”
A Texas Community Rallies To Try To Save University Orchestra
“Hardin Simmons has one of the oldest accredited schools of music in Texas … to start cutting the arts at a liberal arts program just seems outlandish.”
Sofia Coppola Directs Her First Opera – With Valentino As Costume Designer
The production of La traviata at the Rome Opera is still in rehearsals, but it has nearly sold out its 15-performance run – and is, according to the company’s general manager, “already the biggest box office hit in the history of the theater from 1880.”
The Intertwined Histories Of Jazz And Blues Make Music American (And ‘Americana’)
“Too frequently, there’s a split between musicians who play soulful, bluesy jazz, focused on I-IV-Vs and blues scales, and those who play progressive music, intellectually and aesthetically satisfying but with increasingly tenuous links to the music that birthed it a century ago.”