For more than 30 years the Cocteau Theatre, a small Off-Broadway company presenting classics in the 140-seat Bouwerie Lane Theater in the East Village, has been a valuable asset of New York theater. Then last week, a sizeable number of the organization’s board (and several actors) resigned in a dispute…
Tag: 08.11.04
Could Classical Music Get A Little Less White? (We’re Pessimistic)
Divesity is an issue in classical music, where musicians in orchestras (and the soloists who play with them) are overwhelmingly white (not to mention audiences, too, but that’s another story…) “It’s a question of exposure and it is a deficit that is passed on from generation to generation. Seeing droves of black people in opera houses and concert halls is the exception, and that means the seeds have been planted for the next 20 years. I am afraid I have no optimism for the future.”
Edinburgh Artists: Where’s The Art?
Visual artists are attacking the Edinburgh Festival for not including visual arts in its annual lineup. “You are morally responsible for including visual art – or you mustn’t call it the greatest festival in the world. Without the visual arts being properly supported you develop a misunderstanding of the purpose of art – you can’t tell the whole story through music.”