Monday, April 2, 2018
The Las Vegas Philharmonic is in its 19th season and has established itself among the nation's leading regional orchestras. The mission is to perform music that enriches, educates, and helps…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:21PM[SHARE]If we're really serious about changing how social networks operate, far more radical interventions are required. Here are three possible ways to rescue social media from the market-based pre…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:01PM[SHARE]In its 2018 Annual Plan, the broadcaster has acknowledged that young people aged 16-24 in the UK are spending more time watching Netflix than all of the BBC's programming combined, includ…
SOURCE: www.cnet.com at 01:32PM[SHARE]While many continued to think of Baldwin as the spokesperson for a vision of ultimate cross-racial communion such as concluded The Fire Next Time, Baldwin's speeches and essays grew incre…
SOURCE: bostonreview.net at 01:02PM[SHARE]While known for mocking the powerful as they strive to become objects of mass appeal, many of Banksy's illicit street artworks ultimately belong to private landlords, not the public. After a…
SOURCE: www.artsy.net at 12:32PM[SHARE]By analyzing the kinds of songs and artists that had the most success on the Hot-100, we can see that in 9 short years, there have been major changes in music.
SOURCE: Medium at 12:02PM[SHARE]Verdi set the opera, entitled Die Macht des Schicksas, to a German-language libretto by Bläuel Wittling, a poet who ran a women-only writers commune on the banks of the Spree river north…
SOURCE: WQXR at 11:30AM[SHARE]Friday, March 30, 2018
Practices of toleration that used to be seen as essential to freedom are being deconstructed and dismissed as structures of repression, and any ideas or beliefs that stand in the way of this…
SOURCE: www.the-tls.co.uk at 06:01PM[SHARE]During deep brain stimulation procedures, doctors implant electrodes in the brain to try and control tremors. The patient must be awake during surgery, so doctors can see the effects of the …
SOURCE: www.khou.com at 05:32PM[SHARE]How is it that human thought is so deeply different from that of other animals, even though our brains can be quite similar? The difference is due, Andy Clark believes, to our heightened abi…
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 05:01PM[SHARE]You can't measure schmoozing skills in auction data"or, can you? Trustees and big-name art collectors, after all, tend to collect (and, therefore, want to see exhibited) the kind of expensiv…
SOURCE: news.artnet.com at 04:32PM[SHARE]To determine the results of the study, test subjects participated in "psychometric testing and heart rate tests" as they did activities that were positive for their health including attendin…
SOURCE: The Independent at 04:02PM[SHARE]In a backstage interview with Coltrane during intermission at the Stockholm concert, a local jazz DJ noted that some critics were finding his new sound "unbeautiful" and "angry," then asked,…
SOURCE: slate.com at 03:01PM[SHARE]According to research conducted at the University of Toronto, study participants who read short-story fiction experienced far less need for "cognitive closure" compared with counterparts who…
SOURCE: www.inc.com at 02:28PM[SHARE]Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy's wish has come true, with President Donald Trump signing his Eliminating Government-Funded Oil-Painting -- or EGO -- Act into law on Wednesday. The cheekily nam…
SOURCE: CNN at 01:25PM[SHARE]"According to Nielsen Audio Fall 2017 ratings, the total weekly listeners for all programming on NPR stations is 37.7 million people " a record that has been maintained since the Spring of 2…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 12:28PM[SHARE]Beginning in the Fall 2018 semester, Le Moyne College in Syracuse, N.Y., will offer two paid graduate assistantships to students in the College's growing Master of Science in Arts Administra…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:24PM[SHARE]"Diversity isn't enough. The end game is not just having more black or brown people on stage, though that certainly has an impact. That is meaningful, but on its own it won't change the dire…
SOURCE: americanorchestras.org at 11:29AM[SHARE]"It effectively says an orchestral workspace is no different from a factory," said Mark Pemberton, director of the Association of British Orchestras. "What it says is that musicians will nee…
SOURCE: www.bbc.com at 07:29AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 29, 2018
To assess our health, we weigh ourselves, measure our blood pressure, and check our cholesterol. But one scientist is trying to figure out the connection between our well-being and something…
SOURCE: ideas.ted.com at 05:01PM[SHARE]Nashville is cool now. Which is to say, there are parts of Nashville that serve and appeal to and are filled with members of the so-called creative class and promise a different "experience"…
SOURCE: BuzzFeed at 04:01PM[SHARE]While nostalgia was expected to bring in eyeballs, no one predicted such a huge turnout on premiere night for the blue-collar family sitcom with a Donald Trump-supporting protagonist, especi…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:32PM[SHARE]I order the set on Amazon, used, for over 100 euros. It comes with a pile of CDs and a "Handbook," basically a thick CD booklet. One morning, I make myself comfortable next to my electronic …
SOURCE: van-us.atavist.com at 02:32PM[SHARE]Much of what the orchestra does is, in fact, innovative. The orchestra is well on its way to having one of the youngest audiences in the U.S., if not the world. The orchestra's adventurous o…
SOURCE: bit.ly at 01:32PM[SHARE]When Islamabad was built as the capital of a newly independent Pakistan, it was the "old bookshops" that gave the neighbourhoods a spirit and character beyond the insipid soullessness that p…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:32PM[SHARE]The Art Newspaper compiles a list of shows by category. In top sport was Modern masterpieces from the Shchukin Collection"by Picasso, Matisse and Gauguin, among others"were seen by 1,205,…
SOURCE: www.theartnewspaper.com at 11:32AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 28, 2018
Classical or art music has undergone a sea change over the last two decades or so. Music historians debate over when the Common Practice Period " characterized by tonality " began or ended e…
SOURCE: www.ludwig-van.com at 06:26PM[SHARE]In 2008/09, the number of visitors to 15 museums funded by the central government was 39.7Â million. This increased every year to a high point of 50.8 million in 2014/15. The numbers have…
SOURCE: www.theartnewspaper.com at 05:31PM[SHARE]It's a matter of sexual harassment and abuse being a major public health and safety issue in all sectors of our society, and wanting to do something about it, especially when the leade…
SOURCE: monicacatherine.com at 05:10PM[SHARE]Contained within a walkable radius of historic downtown Knoxville " in a range of ornate landmark theaters, refurbished industrial spaces, art galleries, churches, and clubs " it creates its…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 04:54PM[SHARE]The case won by Chris Goldscheider has huge implications for the industry and the health and safety of musicians. It is the first time a judge has scrutinised the music industry's legal obli…
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