The collaborative website Lost-films.eu has a database of more than 4,000 missing movies, “from an actual jazz-era version of The Great Gatsby (1926) to a re-enactment of The Battle of Gettysburg (1913) staged while the veterans were still alive. But even more curious is the site’s ‘Identify’ section – an open call to other museums and the public to I.D. films that sometimes survive without title cards, without canister labels, without so much as a cast or director or country of origin.”
Tag: 07.08.10
Bringing The Ancient Greeks To Deepest America
In a project called “Ancient Greeks/Modern Lives: Poetry-Drama-Dialogue,” Peter Meineck and his Aquila Theatre “will stage free dramatic readings from 10 [verse epics and] plays – including Homer’s Odyssey, Sophocles’ Ajax, and Euripides’ Trojan Women – for the public, especially combat veterans, inner-city residents and rural communities … at 100 public libraries and art centers in some 20 states.”
Is Pierre Boulez Writing A Godot Opera?
Near the end of a review of a Verdi Macbeth in Brussels, Le Monde critic Renaud Machart “drops an unexpected and unrelated bomb” – that Pierre Boulez is composing an operatic adaptation of Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, to premiere at La Scala in 2015.
Pet Shop Boys At Work On Ballet For Sadler’s Wells
“The duo – Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe – … are teaming up with choreographer Javier de Frutos and Royal Ballet principal Ivan Putrov on an adaptation of a Hans Christian Andersen fairy story.”
Claim: Pot Smoke Seeping Into Vancouver Art Gallery Vault
“The VAG is a notorious gathering point for pro-marijuana events … and it’s not unusual to see – and smell – people smoking pot on the steps outside the gallery. While [a gallery volunteer] said ‘it just seems like common sense’ that marijuana smoke would have an impact on the art collection in storage, the gallery’s director Kathleen Bartels [said] the works are protected.”
Met Opera’s Head Of Costumes Explains Her Work
“We don’t hear people having tantrums about their costumes, or not wanting to wear puce, or complaining that a neckline is too high. I’ve seen more divalike behavior in Starbucks over soy milk than I’ve seen backstage at the Metropolitan Opera.”
Mikhail Pletnev Charged With Rape Of 14-Year-Old
“Lt. Col. Omsin Sukkanka, an investigator with the Children and Women’s Protection Center in Pattaya, [Thailand,] said the police opened an investigation in April after they were approached by the boy, his mother and members of a nongovernmental organization. … If convicted, Mr. Pletnev would face 4 to 20 years in prison.”
Brooklyn Benefit Show Bars An American Flag Artwork
“On July 2, [artist Clark Clark] said, he installed the piece with the help of fellow artist Jonathan Levy, who serves as the director of Gallery House. Said Mr. Clark: ‘He saw it when I brought it. He complimented it.’ But on July 4, Mr. Levy called Mr. Clark to inform him that ‘Evolve America’ had to be removed and replaced.”
Egypt Unveils Vividly Painted Ancient Double Tomb
“The tomb includes two false doors with colorful paintings depicting the two people buried there…. Egypt’s antiquities chief, Zahi Hawass, said the new finds were ‘the most distinguished tombs ever found from the Old Kingdom,’ because of their ‘amazing colors.'”
When Organists Get Together
At the American Guild of Organists’ Washington convention, “they can peruse the latest offerings from music publishers” and “examine brochures from organ builders from Austria, Switzerland, Slovenia, Canada and the United States.” They can play local organs, too — though the Kennedy Center organ’s problems are “evidently so pronounced that the city’s organists have simply given up on it.”