Musicians of the Louisville Orchestra’s musicians say they’ll accept a two-year wage freeze and stop trying to get the orchestra to cover the cost of dependent health insurance. In return, the players want the orchestra to agree to mediation for their new contract.
Tag: 02.07.06
Dutch Agree To Return Old Masters
The Dutch government will return more than 200 paintings to the family of a Jewish art dealer. The paintings were looted by Nazis in World War II. “The paintings, by Rubens, Rembrandt, Goya and other well-known painters, are valued at hundreds of millions of dollars. They will be returned to the family of Jacques Goudstikker, a major pre-war art collector who fled the Netherlands shortly before the German invasion in May 1940.”
Hip-hop – Taking It Inside
Hip-hop is mainstream, so why shouldn’t it be in theatres? “Hip-hop culture and hip-hop forms are massive now, all around the world. So it should be in the theatre, just like any culture can exist in the theatre. It’s just movement in a black box. It’s lighting in a black box. It’s sound in a black box. And once we have those components, then you do what you do.”
The Case Of The Mysterious JT Leroy
“A central figure in the case of the mysterious writer JT Leroy has come forward to say that no one named JT Leroy exists, and that the books published under that name were actually written by a San Francisco woman named Laura Albert.”