The Edmonton Ballet’s 2007 project based on Mitchell songs, The Fiddle and the Drum, was such a smash hit that Mitchell and the company planned a second collaboration for 2014. The project isn’t cancelled, but it won’t happen just yet.
Tag: 12.17.13
New York Court Finds That Sellers at Auction Can Remain Anonymous
“New York’s highest court on Tuesday reversed a decision in a case that could have forced the state’s auction industry to change its practice of keeping sellers’ names anonymous.”
Seven Reasons Listicles Capture Our Attention (and Confuse Our Brains)
Derek Thompson: “Rankings create order where there is chaos. They enumerate the innumerable variety of the world and give us a small sense of mastery over our environment. … They’re also devious in both obvious ways (they can be wrong, and not everything is rank-able) and surprising ways that researchers are only beginning to understand.”
How Economics Really Got The Nickname “The Dismal Science”
“The story goes like this: Thomas Carlyle, a Scottish writer and philosopher, called economics ‘the dismal science’ in reference to Thomas Malthus, that lugubrious economist who claimed humanity was trapped in a world where population growth would always strain natural resources and bring widespread misery.” Turns out that what Carlyle was saying was far more dismal (not to mention abhorrent).
Rethinking How We Design For The Coast In The Age Of SuperStorms
“It’s emblematic of how coastal design is moving away from costly, large-scale walls and sea barriers that only work until overtaken by inexorable sea level rise.”
Some New Models For Producing/Paying For Soundtracks
“With video content proliferating, new models for supplying background music are taking root, with many trying to bring down the cost and avoid the complicated royalty-payment rules.”
289 Movies Are Eligible For Oscar’s Best Picture
“To be considered, films must open in a commercial cinema in Los Angeles County by midnight on 31 December and run for at least seven consecutive days.”
Writer Hired To Write Stieg Larsson Sequel
“The head of publishing at Norstedts, Eva Gedin, told The Associated Press the book will be an original work that includes nothing from the fourth book in the series that Larsson began writing but hadn’t finished when he died.”
Sundance Festival Makes A Play For Theatre (Did You Even Know They Did Theatre?)
“Sundance’s growing influence on theater comes after two decades of gradually increasing the number of labs and workshops it holds each year and broadening its search for the next great, risk-taking playwright.”
Why Is Canada’s Largest Opera Company So Nervous About New Opera?
“Imagine the Art Gallery of Ontario going 19 years without a single showing of any new Canadian art. It would be hard to think of a rationale for that scenario, although the COC, which receives about $4.5-million annually in public funding, is always quick to say that new work is too expensive and risky for regular consumption. But does that really need to be true, for the biggest opera company in the country?”