“Michel Cardin, a music professor at the University of Moncton, said he is wondering whether he’ll be able to play his lute again after Air Canada broke his instrument on a recent trip. When he opened up the case after returning to Moncton, the lute was snapped in two.”
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Frick Collection Plans To Add A Gallery
“Seeking to create a new gallery for sculpture and decorative objects, the Frick Collection is planning to enclose in glass the portico on the north side of its Fifth Avenue garden.”
The Martha Graham Co.’s Political Dance Project
“What might a BP oil-spill dance look like? Or an I-was-gouged-by-Bernie-Madoff solo? … Maybe we’ll never know. Maybe that’s a good thing. But 80 years ago, when a financial crisis and an environmental disaster captured America’s attention, modern dancers were among the leading chroniclers.” The Graham company’s Political Dance Project “looks at works of the 1920s and ’30s by Graham and her contemporaries.”
Why The New GM Of The Singapore Arts Festival Has A Difficult Job
Low Kee Hong “is charged with bringing challenging works of art to a deeply conservative nation … And while his ideas include removing categories from the program – the shows are not, for example, divided into theatre, music, dance and so on – he … wants to create the must-see cultural event in Asia and to bring local audiences with him.”