“The Ulster Orchestra is hanging in the balance because of cuts in the arts sector over the past three years. The orchestra, which costs around £4.6 million a year to run, has appealed for £500,000 from Belfast City Council to help keep it afloat.”
Tag: 11.01.14
Top Ten Tips For Being A Choreographer (Not Entirely What You Might Expect)
“If I could go back in time and give my younger self some advice, it would be to be a little softer and kinder. I was so ambitious for many of the students I worked with and so determined for them to succeed, that I demanded everyone worked and pushed themselves.”
The Dilemmas Of Being A Critic And A Playwright (Or A Playwright And A Critic)
“Even under the best of circumstances, critics are accused of biases and agendas. Surely that would be worse if I was pushing my own material on the groups I was covering. For the time being, the ethical thing to do seemed to be not to submit work directly to local theaters.”
A Grassroots Technologist Of Electronic Music Tells All
Laurie Spiegel: “I was playing music, I was improvising, I was making stuff up, and at a certain point I wanted to learn to write things down so I wouldn’t forget them. So I started trying to teach myself to write stuff down. One of my roommates in the house that I lived in pointed out to me that they call that composing. You make things up and write them down.”
Will CBC’s Q Media Panel Address The Ghomeshi Affair?
“‘I think if the media panel is brought back, then it should deal with (the Ghomeshi situation),’ Cruickshank said. ‘At this point, I think the panel would be reflecting on the transparency of CBC corporate, because I don’t think anybody is satisfied that they’ve really put forward the whole story.'”
Our Thirst For Superhero Movies May Be Slaked (But Maybe Not)
“Character considerations aside, critical voices are starting to confess to a certain superhero fatigue.”
Writing About A Pretty Good Year (Or Maybe, If You’re Lucky, A Very Good Year)
“The motor that drives the single-year book is, I think, this tingling fascination or sense of intrigue we often experience when examining the past. But for such an examination to really tingle it must be focused and have a clear structure to it.”
Some Public Buildings In The UK Won The Lottery. How Have They Fared Since?
“There was aching concern that lottery projects should be popular. The lottery was played by the people, and particularly poorer people, so its proceeds should go on things inclusive. Which at the same time had to be somehow cultural, improving or educational, to distinguish them from the theme parks, shopping centres and multiplexes that get built without public subsidy.”
The History Of Digital Images Began With A Baby Picture (Because Caturday Hadn’t Been Invented Yet)
“The computer had plenty of important jobs to do, like, as Kirsch told the Oregonian later, ‘thermonuclear weapons calculations and things of this sort.’ But he was allowed to use it to solve other problems, too. And he wondered what it would mean to have a computer look at a picture.”