The Minnesota Orchestra has become the latest major ensemble to extend its current musicians’ contract so that negotiations may continue without a work stoppage. The contract was set to expire on October 1. In stark contrast to the acrimonious tone surrounding some other negotiations, the orchestra’s president characterized the talks as “warm” and “collegial,” and the musicians have agreed to “play and talk” indefinitely, rather than setting a new end date for the current contract. [Disclosure notice: ArtsJournal’s assistant editor is a musician with the Minnesota Orchestra.]
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Libeskind Blasts Childs Over WTC Squabbles
Daniel Libeskind’s new book about his experience designing the tower that is to rise on the Ground Zero site in lower Manhattan is at turns catty and sincere, and takes direct aim at architect David Childs, with whom Libeskind was compelled to pair on the project. “He portrays Mr Childs as patronising and overbearing, and intent on eliminating as much of Mr Libeskind’s vision as possible from the eventual design… for the majority of the time during their weekly meetings, Mr Childs would ‘chatter on about where he’d just been or would lecture me on architecture’.”
How About Proving That Celine Dion Causes Nausea?
The Ig-Nobel Prizes were handed out this week, and the top prize went to a researcher from Auburn University in Alabama, for a groundbreaking study which proved that suicide rates among white men are demonstrably higher in areas saturated by country music.