“Like the resale value of a new car the moment it leaves the dealer’s lot, the PR value attached to a new piece of music plummets immediately after its premiere. The difference, a cynical composer might respond, is that there’s a market for used cars.”
Tag: 03.09.12
Forget The Joystick! Do Your Gaming With A Water Dish!
Developed in Belgium, “the Splash Controller is a wooden bowl with electrodes covering its inner surface. Filling the bowl with water completes the circuit and activates the electrodes, allowing a computer to detect the presence of liquid and interpret a variety of gestures including swirling the bowl or splashing water into the air.”
Vancouver Theatre Closing After 49 Years
It’s the Vancouver Playhouse Theatre. “We can’t continue operations with the amount of debt that we have and no realistic way of paying it back,” said Playhouse theatre company chair Jeff Schulz.
What Are The Rules For Revising Musicals And Operas?
“Most classic operas have no real legal protection. There was nothing to stop Mr. Brook from tampering with Mozart’s score. Still, if music and words are respected in most productions today, the reason is not just a principled devotion to the masters but also something more pragmatic.”
Is It A Problem That Celebrated Artist David Hockney Doesn’t Draw Blossoms Very Well?
“All blossoms share a characteristic and a significance: they’re frail, and they have a transience that, in Potter’s words, reminds us of the ‘nowness of everything.’ In only one or two pictures does Hockney’s blossom suggest that. Mostly, the blossom looked solid enough to stick to its bushes for ever, writhing from branches like a crop of impaled yellow slugs. I never thought that blossom could look so evil.”
Fine, You Can Have Your Fringe Tickets Early – And It’s Not Because Of The Olympics
The program of events isn’t up yet, but “the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society has bowed to external pressure and has started selling tickets for this year’s event through its own website.”
Composer, Cellist, Parent, Avid Twitterer – When Does Zoë Keating Rest?
“The thing with writing music is you have some sort of an inspiration that makes you write a piece. But when you succeed writing music, it transcends things, so it can mean lots of different things at different times. If you think about the music you like to listen to, it probably doesn’t have just one meaning to you.”
Texas Art Fraud, To The Tune Of $3 Million
A Dallas couple pleads guilty to bilking another couple for millions with the premise that the fraudsters would “invest their money by making short-term loans to museums in Europe. These loans would be secured by pieces of artwork worth significantly more than the loan value.”
Emily Blunt Wants To Act, Not Party With Actors
The British actress stars in three films opening soon, but Hollywood is not her favorite place. “I don’t want to go to event after event, I don’t really enjoy getting glammed up for that crap night after night. I don’t want to go to the opening of an envelope just to be seen, you know, it’s just gross.”
Freud, Extended (That Is, Lucien Freud, At London’s National Portrait Gallery)
The National Portrait Gallery adds extra hours to accommodate the overflow of visitors for the popular exhibit.