“The big questions are whether the individual prize-winners are worthy victors and go on to stellar careers like some of their predecessors, and whether this year’s competition has done enough to save the tarnished reputation of what should be the world’s most prestigious classical music competition.”
Tag: 06.29.11
Canada’s National Arts Centre Head: We Need More Private Funding
Peter Herrndorf: “[In] order to be more national than we were a decade ago, and to continue those national activities, we need to raise money from non-government sources, as well.”
Will e-Tablets Save Comics Or Kill Them?
“The comics industry is slowly, agonizingly, belatedly backing into digital distribution, but with a deeply unusual goal in mind: to push digital customers toward brick-and-mortar stores for long enough to make sure the business can survive its forthcoming, unavoidable mutation.”
The Poetry Magazine Everyone Wants To Be In
It’s one of the most difficult to get into — it publishes under 1 percent of what’s submitted.
South Carolina Arts Commission, Public Television Saved By Legislature
“The S.C. House overrode Gov. Nikki Haley’s vetoes to cut education spending, the state Arts Commission, S.C. ETV and the GOP presidential primary today.”
Reworked Porgy And Bess Headed To Broadway
“A revamped version of George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess, – with a book by Suzan-Lori Parks and a cast featuring Audra McDonald, Norm Lewis and David Alan Grier – “will go to Broadway soon after it completes its run … at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Mass.”
PTSD: The Literature Goes All The Way Back To Homer
“The irony of post-traumatic stress disorder is that it sounds modern … [but] the symptoms have been around for hundreds or thousands of years.” The Iliad “may be the first work of literature based on combat stress. But Samuel Pepys may be the earliest historical figure diagnosed with PTSD in a formal paper.”
ABT Announces Extensive Partnership With UNC School Of The Arts
“American Ballet Theater and the School of Dance at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston-Salem are embarking on a five-year partnership that will teach ABT’s National Training Curriculum throughout three divisions at the school.”
Renzo Piano Unveils Design For Athens Cultural Center
“As Greece grapples with its ongoing debt crisis, a major cultural project there is moving forward. Today, Renzo Piano presented his final designs for the Stavros Niarchos Cultural Center, a privately funded project slated to rise on the Saronikos Kolpos waterfront in southern Athens.”
Warning: This Performance Could Be Hazardous To Your Health
“Do theatremakers have a duty to warn the audience of any potential after-effects of a performance?”