“The thing that’s depressing is teaching graduate students today and discovering that they don’t know simple elemental facts of grammar. They really do not know how to scan a line; they’ve never been taught to scan a line. Many of them don’t know the difference between lie and lay, let alone its and it’s.”
Tag: 02.07.14
How Can Jazz And Classical Get Some Attention On Streaming Services?
“Services such as Spotify and iTunes don’t handle the more complicated metadata very well, often rendering music in these genres harder to discover and sort. But building a tailor-made private playground cut off from huge pools of listeners is an even worse attempt at a solution.”
Maxine Kumin, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Poet Who Loved The Sound Of Poetry, Dead At 88
“If there was a thematic constant in Ms. Kumin’s work, it was the fragile yet reassuringly durable balance in which connection, rupture and continuity find themselves arranged. All poems are elegies at their core, she often said.”
Magicians Buy Into The Mirror Theory Of Vermeer’s Paintings
Penn Jillette (of Penn & Teller): “It’s a big, big hairy deal … as time goes on, it will change the way everybody sees 17th-century art.”
When Is The Right Time To Make Movies About A War?
During WWII, for instance, filmmakers in the West never showed the complexity and cruelty of war, but “today, it does seem to be possible for film-makers to be brutal and realistic before the conflict is over.”
UK Regional Theatre Bosses Warn Of A Tough Year Ahead
“The economic climate is still tough, particularly in the regions, which is a major part of our business. I think it’s going to be little by little that we see these things turn around and audiences coming back.”
Why Charles Dickens’ Dying Wishes Are Being Ignored
Dickens stipulated that when he died there should be no memorial to his life, save his writings.
Visual Art – Prices Up, Value Down?
“Going back as far as the Renaissance, artists have had an uneasy relationship to patrons and the money they offer. And the fear of mass commercialization has been a perennial theme of art at least since the days of the pop artists a half century ago. But something different is in the air today.”
Trafalgar Square Gets A Thumbs Up For Its Fourth Plinth
David Shrigley’s Really Good is a 10-metre high hand with an elongated thumb, crafted from bronze. Shrigley, who was shortlisted for last year’s Turner Prize, said his work was “slightly satirical but also serious at the same time”.
Pops Conductor Richard Hayman, 93
“Mr. Hayman was the St. Louis Symphony’s pops conductor from 1976 until the pops concerts were discontinued in 2002. He was also the chief arranger for the Boston Pops Orchestra for more than 50 years, under both Arthur Fiedler and John Williams, and conducted pops concerts in Detroit, Hartford and other cities in the United States and Canada.”