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Tag: 07.20.13
What A Conductor Does For An Orchestra
“Your whole personality (especially your face and eyes) has to give the sense of assurance and expectancy that inspires an orchestra to play.”
Opera Is Booming In Australia, With Attendance Up By One-Third
“A snapshot of trends from a forthcoming Australia Council analysis of the performing arts, due in August, shows the growth in paid opera attendances was up by 34 per cent in 2012.”
Architect Richard Rodgers Has Spent A Career Remaking Cities
“Rogers has spent a lifetime attempting to make cities more liveable and equitable but, after the Pompidou, what are the landmarks?”
How A Long, Writerly Tradition Came To An End
“The contest was a lovely tradition that was stuttering, staggering. No one could know yet that all magazines would eventually be threatened by a technology that in innocent 1979 we couldn’t even begin to imagine … or that the tower in which we 14 sat, thrilled, privileged to be there, would be destroyed by the time we had waded into middle age.”
No, Really, How Bad IS Spotify For Music?
“Spotify is selling a lie. In this post-Napster world, the pressure is on for new independent artists to have their music sit alongside massive acts – but we’re not getting anything back.”
Take One Rave Producer And One Choreographer; Partner Them Up; Add Ambition …
“This aesthetic, the creators explain, acts as a blank slate, an erasing mechanism through which the personality of each dancer emerges. Physical traits disappear, and what’s left is just a family of open hearts undoing themselves.”
The Summer Music Festival Has Exploded, But How (& Why)?
“You have to be disturbed to put on an event like this.”
What Does The English National Ballet’s Artistic Director Think About The Bolshoi?
Tamara Rojo: “It’s not a healthy environment of artistic criteria that’s at work, but a network of people pushing their protégés – which is unfair, and can become violent.”
Will UK Architectural Activists Stop An (Ominous Drumroll) American Developer?
One campaigner for the large Victorian-era market site: “Smithfield was the scene of many martyrdoms – this would be another.”