A growing number of Chinese opera singers – Hui He, Ying Huang, Haijing Fu, Hao Jiang Tian, Liping Zhang – have been appearing on the world’s stages. Their mentor and teacher is the 93-year-old Zhou Xiaoyan, who learned music from the Russians in 1930s Shanghai, made a European career, lived through the Cultural Revolution and befriended Zhou Enlai.
Tag: 03.05.10
More Worries About BC Arts Funding: Will Grants Be Politicized?
The latest British Columbia provincial budget restored about C$10 million of previously slashed arts subsidies – and established a new body to distribute the extra money, rather than channeling it through the independent BC Arts Council. Says one artist/advocate: “We are seeing a clear move away from arms-length funding and toward direct political funding of the arts.”
Counterintuitive Finding No. 56,487: Cheerful People Are Less Gullible
“It seems to make perfect sense: happy people are trusting people. But a new study suggests that, in some instances, people may actually be less trusting of others when they are in a pleasant mood.”