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From This Weekend’s AJBlogs 09.11.16

This Week In Understanding Audience Stories: America’s Creative Divide Isn’t Where You Think
This Week: There’s a creative divide in America but it’s not where you think… Rethinking the modern concert hall in favor of the audience… Is glamour an ineffective sell for pop music?… A link …read more

AJBlog: AJ Arts AudiencePublished 2016-09-11
Weekend Extra: Alex Riel Meets Bill Evans
Listeners rarely have the opportunity to witness world-class musicians prepare for a performance. In the autumn of1966, pianist Bill Evans toured Europe with his regular bassist, Eddie Gomez. Danish drummer Alex Riel joined them for …read more
AJBlog: RiffTidesPublished 2016-09-10
In Case Facebook Is Watching
AP Photographer Nick Ut’s famous Pulitzer Prize-winning Vietnam War photo illustrating the terror of war wascensored for nudity by Mark Zukerberg’s minions. Facebook deigned to restore the image to … read more
AJBlog: Straight|UpPublished 2016-09-10
Gard Foundation Symposium–Our Communities: Day 3
Today was the final day of The Robert E. Gard Foundation’s Our Communities: A Symposium on the Arts at The Johnson Foundation at Wingspread’s conference center. New Ideas for a World in Transition: A Next … read more
AJBlog: Engaging MattersPublished 2016-09-09
We’ll have a real good time
I rarely meet a revival I don’t like. Classic plays are good for thinking: they re-reveal themselves in each new production, and choices in text and staging function as a conversation between a past … read more
AJBlog: Performance MonkeyPublished 2016-09-09

Fifteen years ago
A few weeks after 9/11, I wrote an essay for Crisis about where I was and what I did that day. This is part of it. * * * “Get up, son,” my mother said, … read more
AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2016-09-09

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This Weekend’s Top AJBlog Posts 09.11.16

This Week In Understanding Audience Stories: America’s Creative Divide Isn’t Where You Think This Week: There’s a creative divide in America but it’s not where you think… Rethinking the modern concert hall in favor of the audience… Is glamour an ineffective sell for pop music?… A link … read more
AJBlog: AJ Arts AudiencePublished 2016-09-11

Weekend Extra: Alex Riel Meets Bill Evans Listeners rarely have the opportunity to witness world-class musicians prepare for a performance. In the autumn of1966, pianist Bill Evans toured Europe with his regular bassist, Eddie Gomez. Danish drummer Alex Riel joined them for … read more
AJBlog: RiffTidesPublished 2016-09-10

In Case Facebook Is Watching Nick Ut / Associated Press [1972]AP Photographer Nick Ut’s famous Pulitzer Prize-winning Vietnam War photo illustrating the terror of war wascensored for nudity by Mark Zukerberg’s minions. Facebook deigned to restore the image to … read more
AJBlog: Straight|UpPublished 2016-09-10

Gard Foundation Symposium–Our Communities: Day 3 Today was the final day of The Robert E. Gard Foundation’s Our Communities: A Symposium on the Arts at The Johnson Foundation at Wingspread’s conference center. New Ideas for a World in Transition: A Next … read more
AJBlog: Engaging MattersPublished 2016-09-09

We’ll have a real good time I rarely meet a revival I don’t like.Classic plays are good for thinking: they re-reveal themselves in each new production, and choices in text and staging function as a conversation between a past … read more
AJBlog: Performance MonkeyPublished 2016-09-09

This Week In Understanding Audience Stories: America’s Creative Divide Isn’t Where You Think

This Week: There’s a creative divide in America but it’s not where you think… Rethinking the modern concert hall in favor of the audience… Is glamour an ineffective sell for pop music?… A link between audience attendance and donations (not what you think)… Why has reading of literature declined?

Comfy Chairs, Legroom, Lockers, And Glamour: A Wish List For The Revamp Of The New York Philharmonic’s Hall

Michael Cooper: “Of course they need to fix the acoustics. … But what about the little things that can make all the difference when it comes to creating a concert hall that people will fall in love with? The things that might not rise to the top of the to-do list when planning a mega-project that is expected to begin in 2019 and cost on the order of a half-billion dollars? As a frequent concertgoer, I have a few modest proposals.”