Members of the quartet have been given more time before they have to turn over their instruments to the musician who sued them. “The extension came as progress was being made in negotiations with David Ehrlich, the violinist who sued Clyde Shaw, Doris Lederer and violinist Akemi Takayama after they ejected him from the quartet in 2000.”
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Elliott Carter’s 80 Years Of Music
Elliott Carter’s music is “still more highly regarded across Europe than in the US, yet he has always been in an important sense an American composer. He has regularly drawn inspiration from US writers such as Walt Whitman, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, John Ashbery and Hart Crane…”
The Louvre’s Record Year (WithThe Help Of The Da Vinci Code?)
The Louvre saw a record 7.3 million visitors in 2005. The previous record of 6.7 million visitors was set in 2004. Officials attribute the increased numbers in part to the popularity of The Da Vinci Code, and expect the forthcoming movie will result in even more visitors.
Byron manuscript Found
The only known manuscript of a poem by Lord Byron has been found in the archives of University College London. The original, which had been assumed lost, was found in an 1810 edition of The Pleasures of Memory by Samuel Rogers.
Smith Wins Whitbread
Ali Smith has won this year’s Whitbread Award for her first full-length novel, The Accidental. “The Scottish writer beat authors including Salman Rushdie and Nick Hornby to the title.”
The Art Of Ads
“The Advertising Icon Museum, to open in the fall of 2007, will feature hundreds of toys, dolls, display figurines, cereal bowls, coffee mugs and ashtrays depicting almost a century’s worth of fictional characters hawking everything from food and beer to household appliances and financial services. Electronic and printed displays will walk visitors through the evolution of commercial advertising in the United States and the importance icons have had in reaching customers, first in printed ads and later from the television screen.”
Columbus’ Mr. Theatre Dies At 93
Roy Bowen, known as “Mr. Theater” in Columbus, Ohio, has died of pneumonia in New York City. “Bowen led Players Theatre Columbus and Ohio State University’s theater program for about a decade each, when those institutions represented just about the only games in town.”
What’s Turning Us Off Movie Theatres?
“As the box office closed out 2005, moviegoing was down 7% with about 1.4 billion tickets sold for the year. While studio executives disagreed over why theater attendance declined (some blamed the movies themselves, others cited the allure of DVDs and video games, and several others said the 7% slide was statistically meaningless), a number of industry leaders did concede that exhibition must improve if Hollywood is to prosper — stadium seating, in other words, is simply not enough.”
Italian Restorers Try To Patch Relations With Greece
Italian restorers are working to try to repair a priceless ancient Greek statue, and the results of their work will have diplomatic consequences. “In an incident that went almost unnoticed at the time, the authorities in Athens last year suspended all further digs by Italian archaeologists in Greece and slapped a five-year ban on an Italian lecturer. The sanctions were imposed after officials learned that the 4th century BC statue, found in an Italian dig on Crete, had fallen and been smashed in transit.”