“I don’t take life for granted, and I don’t know if I will be alive in five years. As far as I know, no composer wrote on their score, ‘Forbidden to those under age 18.'”
Tag: 01.03.14
Cancelled Sarasota Dance Festival Is Un-Cancelled
“Less than a month after the 2014 Carreño Dance Festival was cancelled, the Sarasota summer intensive workshop for pre-professionals dancers is back – and with a new face and partnership that sent a wave of shock through local dance circles.”
There’s an Underground at the MLA – And It Aims to Transform Academia
“The result: the ‘MLA Subconference,’ organized with the chief aim of confronting loudly and bluntly, the very real problems crippling higher education today, from the adjunct labor crisis to ballooning student tuition. The subconference ‘shadows’ MLA by being held in the same city, one day before the established convention begins.”
UCLA Has Destroyed The Undergraduate Study Of English and Wounded Civilization
Conservative pundit Heather Mac Donald: “Until 2011, students majoring in English at UCLA had to take one course in Chaucer, two in Shakespeare, and one in Milton – the cornerstones of English literature.” But no more. “What happened at UCLA is part of a momentous shift that bears on our relationship to the past – and to civilization itself.”
Can A Gallery Devoted To Low-Cost Art Make It In The Big City? Not This One
“It was always an ambitious mission to get a new group of people to think of themselves as art collectors and get them to spend their money on emerging artists. I think it worked great when we did periodic events, but because of our commitment to lower prices, it was hard to make ends meet when we had to pay rent every month.”
Syrian Refugees Play Euripides’s Trojan Women
Classicist Charlotte Eagar writes about her project, with her husband and a Syrian director, to stage the antiwar Greek tragedy in Arabic translation with a cast of women who have fled their homeland’s vicious civil war for neighboring Jordan.
Art Is The Antidote To ‘Stuffocation’
Peter Aspden: “There are few more powerful forms of revolt against stuffocation” – the feeling of being stifled by having too many things – “than to submit to an artistic experience.”
The Problem With Crowd-Funded Movies
“When the people who have paid for the film are also your audience, you lose the latitude to innovate and surprise. Two roles that used to be distinct – investor and consumer – are now one, and as such the way the filmmakers can work is altered and limited, if they are to avoid a fan backlash and get funded a second time.”
Will Its Sound Make ‘Inside Llewyn Davis’ An Academy Fave?
“There are 240 members in the Academy’s music branch, which includes Mr. Burnett, and if those members come to view ‘Llewyn Davis’ as a tribute to the enduring power of their own craft, the film will be well on its way.”
Why The Hell Do We Read Jane Eyre When It’s Not That Great?
That is, not that great compared to Charlotte Brontë’s last book, Villette. “It is high time it was recognised as the blazing work it is.”