Art restorers in Pisa, Italy have discovered that bacteria applied to medieval frescoes that were covered in glue 50 years years can cut through the glue and reveal the painting. “Scientists from Milan University have shown that the bacterium Pseudomonas stutzeri, applied with water on cotton wool, can eat through 80% of the glue in about 10 hours. Chunks of the 14th- and 15th-century series of frescoes at the Camposanto (cemetery) were removed for repair and restoration in the 1950s” when they were covered in glue, and restorers have been trying to figure out how to remove the substance ever since.
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What Makes A Music Festival Work?
The UK is overrun with music festivals. So “why do we have music festivals, what do they achieve and where can it all go wrong – or right? Essentially, a festival, even an early-music festival, must be about the new and the fresh as well as celebrating the established. If it seeks only to reinforce preconceptions and repeat the familiar, it has failed. It is all too easy to build a programme of nothing but popular classics and, certainly in financial terms, all too tempting. But while such a festival may deliver an audience, it does nothing to extend musical horizons, or to create a buzz.”
The Bad Bad Business Of Music
“I know that the British music industry is in crisis. You know that the British music industry is in crisis. My parents – whose interest in music is so profound that they have now owned a CD player for 15 years without ever learning how to use it – know that the British music industry is in crisis.” But sitting around whining about it solves nothing. The music industry is in crisis because of a series of bad business decisions and an inability to change with a changing world.