In Ballet West’s new home in Salt Lake City, dancers say dancing there is “like breathing again. It is a massive sigh of relief to have space to move in.” And no kicks in the head!
Tag: 12.06.14
The End Of The Avant Garde (Thanks A Lot, Damien Hirst)
“Originality requires learning, hard work, the mastery of a medium and – most of all – the refined sensibility and openness to experience that have suffering and solitude as their normal cost.”
Is ‘El Sistema’ Actually Just One More Way To Provide Sexually Abusive ‘Mentors’ With Child Victims?
“Geoff Baker’s book specifically compares El Sistema to Chetham’s. He argues that both institutions have hidden classical music’s ‘dirty little secret’ — that the intimate, overwrought relationships between mentor and pupil encourage sexual abuse.”
The Bombshell Book About ‘El Sistema’ Is A Vicious Overreach
“Baker, who produces little actual hard evidence, is not up to penetrating Sistema’s secrecy. His feet-on-the-ground reporting comes from his own visits to nucleos and talking with disgruntled musicians who have various axes to grind.”
Britain Did WHAT With One Of The Elgin Marbles?!
Why, transported it in complete secrecy to loan to Russia, of course. What, you thought the British Museum might give the Parthenon sculptures back to Greece?