“For a one-time payment of $25, students can attend as many concerts as they like during the whole 2013-14 season. A few ‘premium events’ are excluded, but orchestra officials say that still leaves about 90 percent of the scheduled concerts.”
Tag: 08.29.13
Netflix Makes A Move Into Stand-Up Comedy
“[Aziz Ansari’s] Buried Alive, based on his tour of the same name, will make its Netflix debut on Nov. 1. It will be the biggest stand-up special distributed by Netflix to date, in much the same way that House of Cards was that streaming service’s first high-profile original drama. There’s more comedy coming, the company says, as it opens another front of competition with HBO.”
Bitter Battle Over Chocolate Museums At Mayan Sites
“A row in Mexico about the construction of museums of chocolate at Chichen Itza, the Mayan complex in the Yucatan peninsula that is a Unesco World Heritage site, and in nearby Uxmal, has revealed deep divisions within the National Institute of Archaeology and History and called into question the institute’ management of such sites.”
Do Our Brains Work Like Dictionaries?
“A mathematical analysis of the connections between definitions of English words has uncovered hidden structures that may resemble the way words and their meanings are represented in our heads.”
As Artworks Get Enormous, Galleries Selling Them Get Cavernous (Or Vice Versa)
“Thanks to a resurgent global-art market, some of the world’s top dealers are feeling flush and fueling a new gallery building boom – transforming factories, roller rinks and airplane hangars into showrooms for contemporary art. … Increasingly, the artworks on display are just as enormous, requiring cranes and teams of workers to display.”
Nashville Symphony – Alive To Fight Another Day
“The agreement seemingly ends a year of fiscal storm and stress for the embattled symphony organization. Still reeling from the setback of the May 2010 flood, the NSO board raised creditors’ concerns earlier this year when it declined to renew a letter of credit totaling $100 million in bonds used to build its gleaming downtown facility, the Schermerhorn Symphony Center.”
New Excavations Show Rome’s Early Architectural Ambitions
“At excavations 11 miles east of Rome’s city center, archaeologists think they are catching a glimpse of Roman tastes in monumental architecture much earlier than previously thought, about 300 years before the Colosseum.”
If Miley Cyrus’ Twerking Is Racist, What About Janis Joplin’s Singing?
“Joplin didn’t use black dancers that I’m aware of, and she didn’t use black woman, or black women’s bodies, as a code for sex, as Cyrus does. But there are still uncomfortable parallels.”
New Deadline Set For Resolving Minnesota Orchestra Lockout
“Music director Osmo Vänskä has said the orchestra must be in rehearsal by Sept. 30 to be ready for the early November concerts. To make that happen, orchestra management said Wednesday that it would need to reach agreement with its union musicians by Sept. 15.”
Slawomir Mrozek, 83, Poland’s Great Dissident Playwright
“Mr. Mrozek, who began his career as a journalist and cartoonist, was known for mordant allegorical plays whose absurdism lampooned the political and social climate of the postwar Eastern bloc nations. Critics often mentioned his work in the same breath as that of the Romanian playwright Eugène Ionesco.”