“The music biz isn’t the first British leisure industry to have a suspicious, even adversarial relationship with its own fans. Another of last week’s news stories hints at a way out of it.”
Tag: 04.01.10
Our Variable States Of Conciousness
“People used to think just three states of consciousness existed. You’re either awake or asleep – and if you’re asleep you’re either in dream or non-dream sleep. But brain imaging suggests there are more.”
Tom Dixon, 94; For 50 Years The Radio Voice Of LA Classical Music
“He is the hood ornament, the face of classical radio. In this day and age of consolidation and radio stations making changes so quickly, to have that longevity is just unheard of.”
Hot Museum: London’s National Portrait Gallery
The museum had its best year ever, with two million visitors. “It was an 8% increase on 2008/09 and 20% on 2006/07, the gallery reported.”
David Mills, 48, WashPost Journalist And Eminent TV Scriptwriter, Dies On Set
After a successful career at The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post (where he wrote the article that sparked the Sister Souljah/Bill Clinton tiff), Mills became a top writer for the acclaimed TV series NYPD Blue, ER, The Corner and The Wire. He collapsed on the New Orleans set of his latest project, HBO’s Tremé.
Simon Russell Beale Can Dance!, Says NY Times Chief Critic
Alastair Macaulay, on the Rubenesque actor’s performance in London Assurance:
“In his first scene, he sketches a series of perfect arm movements, and then holds one of them with arched torso (port de bras cambré) as he relates how an artist drew him as Apollo. In his solo in a country dance, he leaps across the stage in a pas de chat and then bounds in several entrechats; and in the finale he does piquées arabesques and baroque pirouettes.”
Overhaul Of Edinburgh’s Assembly Rooms Loses Funding
“Plans for a refurbishment of Edinburgh’s Assembly Rooms are being ‘reassessed’ after the city council failed in a £2.7 million bid for Heritage Lottery funding. The money was a cornerstone to the council’s controversial £12 million plan for a total overhaul of the venue.”
‘Glass Menagerie,’ ‘The Pride,’ ‘Rain Stops Falling’ Lead Lortel Noms
“Nominations for the 25th Lucille Lortel Awards – which recognize achievement in the off-Broadway theater – were announced Thursday with The Glass Menagerie, The Pride and When the Rain Stops Falling leading the field with six each.”
Seattle Center: Park Or Arts Hub? Proposed Chihuly Museum Sparks Debate
“A proposal to place a Dale Chihuly glass museum at financially-struggling Seattle Center has reopened an old debate about what, exactly, the center should be – a park with open spaces or a hub for the arts.”
Mortimer D. Sackler, Philanthropist, Dies At 93
“He was a major donor to Oxford University, Edinburgh University, Glasgow University, the Tate Gallery in London, the Royal College of Art, the Louvre, the Jewish Museum in Berlin and Salzburg University, among other institutions. In New York, the Sackler brothers were probably best known for the Sackler wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art….”