“The Los Angeles Master Chorale will be teaming up with classical-music radio station KUSC-FM (91.5) in a broadcasting partnership in which 14 of the choir’s Walt Disney Concert Hall concerts from the 2009-10, 2010-11 and 2011-12 seasons will be aired in two seven-week series.”
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Two Stand-Up Comics Take On Kafka’s The Trial
In their upcoming Josef K, Tom Basden and Tim Key are trying, says Basden, to “embrace the daftness of Kafka’s book. Its atmosphere is obviously menacing, but it’s also incredibly funny. Seeing it in nightmarish terms isn’t always useful – and it certainly isn’t what’s true about it now.”
Ian Richardson’s Final Resting Place: The Front Row at Stratford
The great British actor was a founding member fo the Royal Shakespeare Company. Now his ashes have been interred under Row A in the new RSC theatre opening this week in Stratford-upon-Avon.
Do Flamenco and ‘the ‘Mediterranean Diet’ Really Need Special UNESCO Status?
Including a thriving popular dance form and a semi-commercial nutritional idea that’s about 60 years old “in the same list together with disappearing skills or ancient religious rituals doesn’t harm anyone, but blurs rather than clarifies the varieties of cultural experience, and turns the initiative into an endless and futile enumeration.”
Is It Art or Just a Zoning Violation? Larry Rivers’s Long Legs in Sag Harbor
“The legs are a sculpture, on display for the past two years on the side of a former Baptist church that is now the part-time home of two art dealers. The legs – which stand 16 feet, 1 inch – and the famous name of their creator have touched off a spirited debate over what qualifies as art in this artsy community” in eastern Long Island.
Cheaper Imported Textbooks?
“Textbook publishers could see the U.S. market flooded with less fancy editions they have produced for students in poorer countries. The foreign editions might be flimsier, but their content is the same as in the editions the textbook companies sell to U.S. students — and they are “often half or a quarter of the price of the domestic editions.”
Study: France Is Losing Its Academics To America
A study has “found that academics constitute a much larger percentage of French émigrés to the United States today than 30 years ago. According to the report, between 1971 and 1980, academics represented just 8 percent of the departing population; between 1996 and 2006, they represented 27 percent of the departing population.”
Reimagining The Physical Book
“Imagine a book–in this case the 1934 novel The Street of Crocodiles, a surrealistic set of linked stories by the Polish Holocaust victim Bruno Schulz–whose pages have been cut out to form a latticework of words. The result is a new, much shorter story and a paper sculpture, a remarkable piece of inert, unclickable technology.”
Guggenheim Struggles With Its Finances
“In a disastrous 2008, the museum’s net assets declined by 25 percent. The latest tax filings show that 2009 was not nearly as bad, though the numbers still offer cause for concern.”
Toronto Entertainment Titans Team Up
“David Mirvish, the largest producer of commercial theatre in Toronto, and Dan Brambilla, CEO of the Sony Centre and the biggest impresario in the non-profit sector, have formed a partnership with far-reaching implications for this city’s show business scene.”