“Ballet Arizona sold 10,359 tickets to the Valentine’s weekend production [of Sleeping Beauty], selling out three of five performances … [and] set[ting] set a Ballet Arizona record for best-selling show, executives said. It was also the largest production in the company’s history and featured more than 80 dancers.”
Tag: 02.24.10
More Conductor-Orchestra Strife In France, This Time In Lyon
Jun Märkl, music director of the Opéra and Orchestre national de Lyon, “has been butting heads with that orchestra’s general director, Laurent Langlois, since the latter’s appointment last May.” The conductor has filed a lawsuit charging “that Langlois’s meddling has violated the terms of his contract.”
UK Local Govts. Warn Of Arts Cuts Up To 20 Percent
“A new report … envisages reductions of between 7.5% and 15% in public spending in the 2011-14 spending round. It also suggests that ring-fencing areas such as health and education may result in cuts of 20% or more to some ‘unprotected services’, which include arts and culture expenditure.”
The New York Post And Original Sin
Ron Rosenbaum considers how the Post‘s status as America’s iconic tabloid daily is bolstered by the paper’s moral sense. (Yes, he’s serious.)
Mixing The Arts And Social Justice In San Francisco (Natch)
The University of San Francisco has the first department in the US “to integrate performing arts curricula and social justice ideology. No, this is not some Left Coast, New Age, Jesuit-communist pedagogical scheme.” The program has teamed up with “the San Francisco Sheriff’s Department, to develop Man. Alive. – a performance of stories based on the testimonies of four incarcerated men.”
The Sound Of Silence: Our Brains Really Hear It
“While we characterize silence as the absence of sound, the brain hears it as loud and clear as any other noise. In fact, according to a recent study from the University of Oregon, some areas of the brain respond solely to sound termination.”
Renee Fleming Sings Death Cab For Cutie
In what may be a first for the ubiquitous Grammy-winning opera star, Fleming is traveling way downtown in her new album, ‘Dark Hope,’ in which she performs pieces by indie-rock bands including Muse, Arcade Fire, Band of Horses and Death Cab For Cutie.” The closing track will be Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah.”
San Francisco Cracks Down On Academy Of Art University
The school is in trouble over “a host of code violations,” most stemming “from illegal signs on many of the for-profit university’s more than 30 properties across the city or from buying buildings and converting them into classrooms or group housing without proper permits.”
Is Lorin Maazel The Munich Phil’s Next Music Director?
Maazel “would succeed Christian Thielemann, who was unable to negotiate a contract to his liking and is leaving at the end of the 2011 season to take over the Dresden Staatskapelle. The orchestra has not officially announced the appointment, but Munich’s mayor, Christian Ude, and his press spokespeople appear to have spilled the beans.”
When Intellectual Property Enforcers Go Too Far
“Over the last half-millennium, measures to defend creative property have repeatedly proved counterproductive — not just because individual pirates themselves escaped, but because those measures triggered public reactions against their own proponents.”