Tuesday, February 4, 2020
Some composers deal with the threat of boredom by cramming their scores full of drama and extreme sounds. Others embrace it, stretching time and indulging in trancelike repetition. Shaw desc…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:36PM[SHARE]English-language popular songs have become more negative. The use of words related to negative emotions has increased by more than one third. Let's take the example of the Billboard dataset.…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:36PM[SHARE]"If there are benefits to humans using data to assimilate this kind of information and attempting to make it actionable, the results have yet to impact the production-to-hit ratio of major s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:36PM[SHARE]How does the once-unthinkable become not only thinkable but self-evident? How does the unthinkable become something we cannot think away anymore? To get at that, we have to tell a history no…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:36PM[SHARE]Alex Ross: "For the most part, the classical-music world is in need of conductors with broad horizons, who can guide audiences from a passive worship of the past to an active awareness of th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:36PM[SHARE]Forty-one artists are involved in this latest Australian iteration, including Georgia Hill, Tom Gerrard, Sarah McCloskey, Ghostpatrol, Callum Preston and E.L.K, as well as anonymous artists.…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:36PM[SHARE]They range from bringing online media platforms like Yahoo and Facebook under the scope of the Broadcasting Act to making sure that streaming companies like Netflix and Amazon Prime are suff…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:36PM[SHARE]It's fantastic to see libraries recognised as valuable public spaces that need protection and increased support, but I'm concerned that the attempt to rejuvenate them through the arts could …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:48PM[SHARE]While a handful of Broadway productions are filmed for airings on PBS or to be added to BroadwayHD's on-demand streaming library, "Hamilton's" road from stage to studio might set a lucrative…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:27AM[SHARE]The Sydney Symphony Orchestra seeks an experienced Director of Artistic Planning to curate its classical and pops symphonic programming, chamber music, educational programming and regional t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:32AM[SHARE]Primary digital content creator and lead distribution manager for Opera Theatre's digital content.
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:32AM[SHARE]Monday, February 3, 2020
Being in a bad mood can improve your memory. Aspirin helps not just for headache, but for heartbreak. (Hmm.) Indulging nostalgia in a cold room can actually warm you up. 'List your blessings…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:18PM[SHARE]Kathleen Parker: "Once Cummins's genetic shortcomings caught the attention of social media's literati, it was off to the bonfires. Not only was she condemned, prompting her to cancel her boo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:18PM[SHARE]What are we to think, then, about a critic criticizing a critic? Do I intend to get you to see Sebald or Roth as I see Wood seeing them? But of course, to see Wood as I see him is, in part, …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:18PM[SHARE]The orchestras that get most of the publicity are just the tip of the iceberg. And they are seriously outnumbered by a less-heralded cohort. Just as the great teams in sport are outnumbered …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:18PM[SHARE]Bryant's injury prevention routine was particularly unique"and involved taking tap classes to strengthen his ankles. (You've probably heard of football players taking ballet, but this one wa…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:18PM[SHARE]Only 15 paintings are attributed to Leonardo. He lived off and on in Florence but for long periods was cosseted by potentates such as the Duke of Milan and the French King Francis I who cons…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:54PM[SHARE]Newly released Index of Deep Disadvantage looks at poverty and disadvantage across all the nation's counties and 500 of the largest US cities. The index was based on three categories of data…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PM[SHARE]"1917" takes the top prize; Renée Zellweger wins for top actress. A complete list. " The Guardian
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PM[SHARE]The CAFA Art Museum (CAFAM) in Beijing announced its decision to suspend the inaugural edition of its CAFAM Techne Triennial, an ambitious exhibition of media art scheduled to open on Februa…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PM[SHARE]Schjeldahl's primary mode is that of a lover, and you can read many of his pieces as impassioned love letters, often involving his favorite art: painting. His deep devotion to the medium con…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PM[SHARE]Launching this month, 50+50: A Creative Century from Chouinard to CalArts is a program for which 50 artist-alums are creating new works, typically in editions of 10 to 20, and produced by Li…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PM[SHARE]According to the Fox News theory of art, an artwork's primary purpose isn't to awe, inspire, or delight, let alone challenge your understanding of the world, but to serve as an expression of…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PM[SHARE]Obtaining the rights to movie, set for release on Oct. 15, 2021, is another huge coup for Disney "Â which topped $10 billion in box office sales last year "Â and allows a stage show that…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PM[SHARE]"When I set out to write this novel, which takes place in Iowa and centers around 46-year-old Meradyth Spensir and her 8-year-old son Chab, my goal was to shed light on the struggles that wh…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PM[SHARE]Friday, January 31, 2020
The authors welcomed a drop in the proportion of white executives from 86% in 2015 to 78%, "since true change in company culture almost always requires buy-in from the very top". But the num…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06PM[SHARE]How did Beethoven's work " its harmonies, its rhetoric, its formal ideas " become such an exclusive model for what classical music should sound like? What are we going to do to give other mo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:48PM[SHARE]Schoenberg and beauty are words that rarely occupy the same sentence. Arguably the most influential composer of all time, his fame derived from his abolition of tonality"the harmonic system …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:48PM[SHARE]"I am discovering the possibility of the choreography coexisting with sound, maybe not being as dependent as I usually am. That opens a field I haven't really explored. But I don't have the …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:48PM[SHARE]The Annapolis Symphony seeks a strong leader with excellent interpersonal skills and a demonstrated track record in fund-raising, strategic planning, and organizational leadership. The succe…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:48PM[SHARE]The review comes at a perilous time for the BBC, with insiders and industry observers worried that the broadcaster is facing an existential crisis. As well as a hostile government, which is …
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