Driven by a mania to abandon celluloid in favor of digital, increasing numbers of chains are installing 3D-ready digital projectors. As everyone can tell simply by taking off their 3D glasses, the process noticeably reduces the visible light from the screen.
Tag: 05.24.11
Endless Battles At Bolshoi Ballet
“[The] chaos of the renovation project [has] seemed to mirror disquiet inside the Bolshoi company. The troupe has long been riven by battles for control between competing cliques, and has been accused of losing direction and stagnating artistically while bureaucrats jostled for influence.”
Why Orchestras Need To Solve The New Music Problem
“With each passing generation, composers fall in and out of fashion, and the core orchestral canon shifts to accommodate changing tastes. But somewhere along the line, we stopped drafting new composers into the mix of regulars, and unless we change that, and soon, it means that when tastes change again, there may not be anything an orchestra can play that will sound remotely interesting to the next generation of listeners.”
LA As Center Of The Art World? How Odd
It “seems, at first, like an unwitting irony. So does proposing that a center can be ‘distinctly horizontal’–i.e., decentralized. It’s either an unwitting irony, or it’s very LA.”
Study: People Who Attend Cultural Events Are Less Stressed
“People who go to museums and concerts or create art or play an instrument are more satisfied with their lives, regardless of how educated or rich they are, according to a study. But the link between culture and feeling good about oneself is not quite the same in both sexes, according to the study, published in the British Medical Association’s Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.”
Cincinnati Symphony Boosts Attendance Again
“It was the fifth sold-out or nearly sold-out concert during the season, which produced the best attendance numbers the CSO has seen for the past five seasons. The average number of people attending CSO concerts this season (1,752) shows a marked increase over the 2006-07 season (1,540).”
Ling Tung, 78, Builder Of Grand Teton Music Festival
“After a 1967 visit to guest conduct, Tung took the stand on a permanent basis from 1968 to 1996. At that time, the orchestra didn’t have a permanent venue, let alone a concert hall. With his wife, singer Margot Walk, Tung raised the money to build a concert hall in Teton Village on land donated by the Jackson Hole Ski Area.”
Binoche, Bauhaus, Bausch and Beach (Einstein On The): 2012 Olympic Arts Festival Programme
The Barbican Centre has announced the flagship arts programming planned around the 2012 London Olympics. A few of the highlights: Juliette Binoche playing Strindberg’s Miss Julie, a major Bauhaus retrospective titled Art as Life, a month-long season by Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, and the UK premiere of Philip Glass’s Einstein on the Beach.
The New York City Opera/Lincoln Center Break-Up, Described In Laypeople’s Terms
“You know that feeling where you’re stuck in a codependent relationship for years and then one day it becomes all too clear, so you just decide to get the f*** out without a real game plan? The New York City Opera did just that yesterday, straight up-and-leaving Lincoln Center for a home to be determined later.”
BBC Performing Arts Fund Finally Starts Supporting Dance
“BBC charity the Performing Arts Fund has unveiled details of its first ever schemes supporting the dance sector, with a total of £350,000 to be awarded to individuals and companies in 2011.”