“Too frequently, there’s a split between musicians who play soulful, bluesy jazz, focused on I-IV-Vs and blues scales, and those who play progressive music, intellectually and aesthetically satisfying but with increasingly tenuous links to the music that birthed it a century ago.”
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If You’re Going To Direct A Ballet Company, You Better Know Your Psychology [LISTEN]
The Joffrey Ballet’s Ashton Wheater on running the famous company and what he thinks about ballet audiences.
The British Government Is Threatening The BBC’s Recipe Archive, And The Reaction Is Strong
“There is no rationale for getting rid of such a valuable resource, other than a lack of financial resources and pressure from a zealous government that has an ideological problem with a popular, not-for-profit organisation.”
Can Your Tech Really Ruin Your Museum Experience?
“Most museums, especially art museums, are trying to balance this intent that they have about creating a really quiet or an engaged, almost religious commune with the art — with this real strong need to be relevant to modern audiences, to millennial audiences, to attract new audiences.”