“The accent we’re talking about here is among the weirdest ways of speaking in the history of the English language. … Its popularity, though, in pop culture [of its era] can be tied to one American woman, and a very strange set of books.”
Tag: 10.27.16
Just-Discovered Ingmar Bergman Screenplay To Be Filmed By His Old Enemy
Sixty-Four Minutes With Rebecka was planned as part of a joint project with Federico Fellini and Akira Kurosawa that never panned out. Now it’s going to be filmed by Suzanne Osten, a director with whom Bergman feuded from the 1960s until his death.
What’s The Source Of The Problems At Philly’s Biggest Funder? An Auditor Names Names
Lisa Ranghelli of Philamplify, which conducted a formal assessment of the William Penn Foundation in 2014: “We didn’t call out specific individuals in our report, but perhaps our choice to be circumspect merely helps perpetuate the problem.”
For The Seventh Year, National Ballet Of Canada Posts Surplus
The company had 2,277 performances and outreach events in the 2015/16 season with a total attendance of 918,131. There were77 performances at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts with 141,146 in attendance and 2,190 community events reaching 760,413 young people and their families.
Elizabeth Bishop’s Last Love Affair
In 1971, three years after the suicide of her Brazilian partner, the still-grieving poet came to Harvard to fill in for the on-sabbatical Robert Lowell. There she fell for the 27-year-old house secretary – with her “blue blue blue” eyes – of the dorm where Bishop was staying.
The Power Of “Showing Off” (And What It Means)
“Consider then what is meant by ‘showing off’. We use this phrase to designate behaving in a way intended to attract admiration. Showing off is not just doing something well before an audience. Jacqueline du Pré doing Elgar is not showing off. She is performing, playing cello before an audience. What distinguishes showing off is the intention behind the deed. When I show off, I do something for the reason that I want to attract your admiration. When we deem others to be showing off we make those judgments within a context of intricate sets of meanings. These are at best provisional and changing, and so too are the possible meanings we live out in our daily lives.”
A Rare Cultural Glimpse Inside North Korea
The Munich Chamber Orchestra visits North Korea and makes a film about the experience. Life in the North is regimented and looks, in this video – a bit grim. But then, maybe that’s one reason the North Korean musicians seen here seem so passionate about the music they make.
So What Does It Mean To Be A Public Intellectual? It’s A Very Difficult Road To Walk
“A social category so pure and idealized will be both immensely irritating and fatally ineffective. All intellectuals will appear tainted as soon as one pauses to examine how they put bread on their table, with whom they play golf, and how they fund their projects. No critic can be truly independent of his or her society, and in pretending that one can, we set ourselves up for disillusionment.”
Anger And Confusion In Cairo As Film Fest Abruptly Disinvites A Film (And Filmmaker)
“Filmed amid and set before, during, and after the revolution and the ravages of post-Mubarak Egypt, the piece is of intense interest to its local audience, particularly the independent cultural scene of Downtown Cairo, of which El Said is a member.”
Jaap van Zweden’s Global Dance
The conductor leads two orchestras on different sides of the world, and the disconnects aren’t just geographic. “The New York and Hong Kong orchestras are not just distant geographically — they are also at very different phases of their development, requiring different types of effort from their shared music director.”