“Scotland’s leading youth music organisation may be forced to abandon much of its pioneering educational work after its funding was halved for next year, officials warned.”
Tag: 06.30.11
Jonathan Rhys Meyers Hospitalized In Apparent Suicide Attempt
The film and television actor “was taken to hospital by ambulance on Tuesday, after being found slumped over in his London home. British media are reporting he had swallowed pills in what paramedics say was a suspected suicide attempt.”
British Theatre Is Hotbed Of Workplace Bullying: Study
“Two in five respondents to a survey of theatres and arts centres in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland revealed they had suffered bullying in the workplace. This is the highest reported incidence in any single employment sector in the country.”
Matthew Bourne To Use Amateurs For Large-Scale Lord Of The Flies Ballet
“Choreographer Matthew Bourne is planning a ‘super-production’ of his Lord Of The Flies ballet at Sadler’s Wells in 2013, with a cast featuring male amateur performers from around the UK.” Bourne premiered an initial version of Flies in Glasgow earlier this year.
Quebec Cineaste Denis Villeneuve To Make First English-Language Film
“The Oscar-nominated filmmaker [for Incendies] says he’s attached to the Warner Bros. feature Prisoners and hopes to begin shooting by the end of this year.”
What Makes Classical Music Sound ‘American’?
“If music is, as they say, the ‘universal language,’ does some of it speak in a distinctively American dialect? With the most American of holidays just around the corner, we figured it was time for a little self-analysis” with conductor Marin Alsop.
Actress Who Played Funny Girl On Why Other Actresses Can’t Do The Part
Marilyn Michaels: “This is one role even Sutton Foster shouldn’t play. Fanny Brice … got her start in burlesque, and created her character strongly based on her Jewish roots. … Barbra Streisand and I had a leg up in this respect … Perhaps a young Meryl Streep would have done it justice. … But then again, Meryl would have required extensive vocal coaching.”
Canada’s Walk Of Fame – Your Tax Dollars At Waste
“On the cusp of Canada Day, I put it to you that our taxes are collected and spent by a government that has contempt for us. They must think we are airheads, as they dole out our money to fund the celebration of the already rich and famous.”
Of Media, Publishing, And What’s Essential
“It’s true, of course, that the works that are best selected, best prepared and best distributed tend to reach wide audiences and/or find commercial success. But it’s also true that many works are viewed on the internet without having any of these things.”
Morlot Named Chief Conductor Of La Monnaie
“The Seattle Symphony’s brand-new music director, Ludovic Morlot, has just accepted another new appointment, with a major European opera house: La Monnaie, in Brussels, Belgium, where he begins a five-year contract as chief conductor in the fall of 2012.”