The UK’s Heritage Lottery Fund has turned down funding for a futuristic museum on Liverpool’s waterfront. The Fund “said it would not be giving the project the £11.4m it asked for, saying the plans were not detailed enough.” Planned exhibits in the building wwould “cover social history and popular culture, and will look at Britain and the world through the eyes of Liverpool.”
Tag: 01.25.06
The Latest In A New Musical Instrument
“The tenori-on, a prototype from Yamaha’s product design laboratory, produces computer music through a grid of 256 illuminating buttons on a brushed-aluminum tablet. By pressing buttons along rows and columns, users can program melodies like plotting notes on a scale. When the tunes are looped and layered, the machine creates a symphony of synthesis, musical blips and bleeps matched with light patterns that bounce and ripple across the device.”
Critics: “Temple” Was Bay Area’s Best Of 2005
The best play in the Bay Area last year? According to critics, it was Leigh Fondakowski’s “The People’s Temple,” a “documentary theater piece based on the real-life tragedy of Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple. The play was produced by Berkeley Repertory Theatre in association with Z Space Studio.”
Oscar’s Stuntblind
Why is there no Academy Award for stunt performers? Stunts, after all, are integral to many movies, and when so many Oscars are handed out, shouldn’t there at least be one to recognize stunt work?
Dwyer named To Lead Orange County Performing Arts Center
The Orange County Performing Arts center has named Terrence Dwyer as its new director. Dwyer was managing director of La Jolla Playhouse for 12 years before departing in 2004 for Houston’s Alley Theatre. “As president of OCPAC, Dwyer will be in charge of a diversified, $35- to $40-million-a-year operation that dwarfs the regional and off-Broadway theaters he has previously led.”
Canadians Ignore “Karla” Movie
Audiences are not buying tickets for a movie about Canada’s most famous serial killer. “Critical reaction has been almost uniformly negative toward the 104-minute feature, which was made in California in 2004 for an estimated $6-million (U.S.).”
French Court Rejects “Original” Defense In Duchamp Urinal Case
A French court convicts a 77-year-old French man for attacking artist Marcel Duchamp’s famed porcelain urinal with a hammer, “rejecting the defendant’s contention that he had increased the value of the art work by making it an ‘original’.”
Orlando: A Performing Arts Center To Blend In
Architect Barton Myers has been chosen to design a new performing arts center for the city of Orlando, Florida. “Myers — a Los Angeles-based architect who has designed performing-arts centers in Newark, N.J.; Portland, Ore.; and Cerritos, Calif. — is known as an architect who avoids designing flashy structures that stand out from the landscape, such as Frank Gehry’s Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. Instead, Myers wants his work to fit in with — and add to — the cityscape around it.”
Cleveland In Miami – A Brighter Future?
The Cleveland Orchestra has been struggling with its budget. Could extended residencies in Miami’s new performing arts center help to balance the books? “The orchestra sees the residency, which will include subscription concerts, educational programs and collaborations with Miami musical institutions, as a critical means of enhancing not only its reputation but also its bottom line.”
Broadway, Fully Booked
Two very successful Off-Broadway plays have been trolling for On-Broadway theatres to move to. But everything is booked…