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Tag: 07.28.13
What Marin Alsop Has Done In Baltimore
“Having the public on your side is an awfully good thing for any conductor, any orchestra. Alsop and the BSO get hearty responses week after week (a burst of whooping, unusual for classical concerts, typically greets her when she walks onstage).”
Bolshoi Ballet Artistic Director Sergei Filin Talks About The Acid Attack That Ravaged His Sight
Stumbling blindly and shouting for help, he found his way to a kiosk where a security guard came to his aid. “I told him to call an ambulance and call Masha down from our apartment,” he says. “I had this feeling that I was on the verge of leaving life, and I wanted to do it in the arms of my wife.”
Learn Some Manners, Or Get Off My (Summer Music Festival) Lawn
“The smart phone-driven attention span of music audiences is increasingly fragile — and all this constant yammering is likely a ramification.”
Is It Time For Latinos To Show Their Political Clout In The Arts?
Yes, because when politicians “detect even minor public opinion shifts, or the increasing organization of special interest groups, or the rise in money being raised to achieve some end that may even remotely be interpreted as having political over or under tones, their radar kicks into high gear.”
What’s It Like Programming For One Of The Most Famous Classical Music Summer Festivals?
Ravinia Fest Music Director James Conlon: “It’s not the time of the year to give them hard-core, avant-garde music. People have a different mindset in the summer.”
This May (Not) Come As A Shock: Theatre People Are Using Kickstarter
But one actor says there’s a downside: “I still owe people. … That can go for a while. Your project, even though it’s finished, is not fully finished if you come up with incentives that take time to do.”
Will Theatre Criticism Go The Way Of The Walking Dead?
“The ‘zombie apocalypse’ would be represented by the elimination of all the theater critics, meaning theater would no longer be reviewed (or presumably covered). What would that mean?”