“Whereas everywhere I used to go in the course of what is laughingly called my work I met people who were toting Moleskine notebooks, now most of them have iPads. And – shock, horror! – they appear to be using them as notebooks.”
Tag: 03.30.13
London Opera In ‘Crisis’ (And The U.S. Is Jealous)
“Together, London’s ‘crisis-ridden’ major opera companies are doing more of significance than all of the big-budget opera companies in America put together.”
Scholars Tell Off Shakespeare Deniers
“Shakespeare academics have until now had their heads in the sand, hoping the doubts were ludicrous enough to fizzle out. However, they have been alarmed by the spread of authorship challenges in universities on both sides of the Atlantic.”
What A Conductor Knows (Farming, Bach, Oysters, And More)
John Eliot Gardner: “If I have any religious feelings at all it is thanks to music. I believe very strongly in the synergy that happens when you make music in beautiful historical buildings”
Phil Ramone, 82, Producer Of Stars And Early Adopter of Music Tech
“The winner of 14 Grammy Awards — including one in the early 1980s for producer of the year — Ramone was known for forging close creative relationships with artists and for the sumptuous sounds of his work, which typified an era of lavish recording budgets.”
The End Of NY’s Living Room Theatre
Living Room Theatre’s Judith Malina: “I’m in the theater because I’m a revolutionary and I want to make a revolution. I want to make the beautiful non-violent, anarchist revolution.”