“The proliferation of viewing devices — including a new generation of TV sets that connect to the Internet — could boost the chances that viewers will do what cable and satellite companies fear most: cancel their $70-a-month subscriptions in favor of cheaper Web options.”
Tag: 01.04.11
Australia’s Top Festival Director to Quit Festivals, Return to Opera
“[Lindy] Hume, whose first Sydney Festival was last year, has decided not to continue beyond 2012. Unusually among our professional festival directors, Hume is a practising artist. She is itching to get back to staging opera productions, after presenting four Perth Festivals and what will be three in Sydney.”
The Royal Ballet’s Golden Age, Seen From Backstage
“[Colin] Jones’s own photographs of life behind the scenes at the Royal Ballet, taken in the early Sixties,… reveal the glamour and elegance of the dancers as well as the grueling regimes they endured, whether at rehearsals and in dressing rooms or on stage.”
Louisville Orchestra Pays Its Players Part of What It Owes Them
“The Louisville Orchestra paid its musicians a partial salary last Friday, after a federal bankruptcy court ruled that the orchestra must abide by its contract with the musicians union. Orchestra CEO Robert Birman wouldn’t specify what percentage of the musicians’ salary was paid.”
Russia Deals with Ambivalence Over Tolstoy
Through 2010, the centennial of the author’s death, “Russians wrestled over Tolstoy much as they did when he was alive. Intellectuals accused the Russian Orthodox Church of blacklisting a national hero. The church accused Tolstoy of helping speed the rise of the Bolsheviks. The melodrama of his last days, when he fled his family estate to take up the life of an ascetic, was revived in all its pulpy detail.”