“The billion-dollar replacement for legendary Yankee Stadium? A boring clone. The new Citi Field, home to the Mets? It’s stuck in even more of a historicist time-warp, meant to evoke Brooklyn’s old Ebbetts Field practically brick for brick.”
Tag: 08.16.11
Chicago Gets A Baroque Opera Company
“Not so many months ago, the Chicago cellist and viola da gamba player Craig Trompeter … thought: Why not start a local company specializing in ‘authentic’ stage realizations of neglected as well as familiar operas from the 17th and 18th centuries?” So he did, and Haymarket Opera will debut in September, with a second production next February.
Barenboim Conducts Beethoven At Korean DMZ
“Daniel Barenboim, the world-renowned conductor and pianist, led a peace concert performed by the West -Eastern Divan Orchestra in Imjingak near Korea’s Demilitarized Zone on the country’s Independence Day.”
Barenboim’s Next Peace Concert Could Be In Cairo’s Tahrir Square
After finishing the Korean DMZ concert, the maestro proposed “an open-air concert by his orchestra of Jewish and Palestinian musicians on Tahrir Square, the symbolic home in Cairo of Egypt’s Arab Spring uprising.” Barenboim said,” We would like to play in the Gaza Strip, on Tahrir Square in Cairo and in Israel too.”
European Nuclear Center Starts An Artist Program
“It’s hoped that inspiration will be reciprocal, with scientists and artists paired up so that each will benefit from the other’s world view, benefitting CERN’s (European Organization for Nuclear Research) research as much as its cultural programme.”
Louise Behrend, 94, Violinist Who Introduced Suzuki Method To U.S.
“[She] trained a generation of American teachers in the Suzuki method and [her] standing as a musician helped the Japanese movement establish itself in the United States.”
Three Mark Morris Dancers On Three Mark Morris Dances
Maile Okamura, Noah Vinson and Laurel Lynch give an inside view of Renard, Socrates and Festival Dance.
The Pitfalls Of Shakespeare For Children
Actor Tim Crouch: “The introduction of Shakespeare to young people is often advocated out of a sense of reactionary paranoia about a slipping of standards or an eroding of national identity: Shakespeare as warm beer or red phone boxes. … [But a] child knows when they are on the receiving end of a didactic exercise.”
Architectural Geniuses With Feathers
“Birds are exceptionally skilled architects. And, unlike humans, they do not require expensive schooling to obtain their skills. … Take a look through the gallery for a window into the skyscrapers, tract housing, and luxury condos of the bird world.”
A New (Low-Key) Palace For Poetry
“When the idea of a new building devoted to poetry was first broached in 2005 by John Barr, the foundation’s president, some trustees argued that poetry doesn’t need a “Taj Mahal.” But local architect John Ronan’s engaging structure couldn’t be less flamboyant. Like good poetry, it reveals itself slowly.”