Wednesday, March 28, 2018
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…
SOURCE: www.bbc.com at 03:32PM[SHARE]"As a composer, I believe that the best gift I can offer our troubled world is music. Some composers choose to address the political issues of their times directly in their music. But, altho…
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 02:31PM[SHARE]One of the prototypes, called Project Scene Stitch, illustrates how an algorithm could be used to replace ugly buildings in the foreground of a photo"a user would enter some key words, and t…
SOURCE: www.technologyreview.com at 01:31PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 27, 2018
Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), an internationally recognized presenter of contemporary performing arts and cinema, is looking for our Associate Director, Development Operations and Analyti…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:54PM[SHARE]"It's a big question, when the word 'real' makes sense. An interesting possibility is that the whole distinction between real and unreal is misguided."
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 06:28PM[SHARE]Researchers followed 147 Dutch schoolchildren"half of whom took supplemental music-education classes, along with their regular curriculum"for two-plus years, beginning at age six. "Children …
SOURCE: psmag.com at 05:28PM[SHARE]Airing fewer commercials could mean less revenue for the networks " unless they can convince advertisers that it's worth it to pay more to have their spots running in a less cluttered progra…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:33PM[SHARE]For these creators, a trade isn't just about paying the bills; it's something that grounds them in reality. In 2017, a day job might perform the same replenishing ministries as sleep or a lo…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:01PM[SHARE]What if composers, instead of translating into music what they see in dance and dancers, could build scores directly from their own bodies? Dancers master the art of embodying existing music…
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 03:35PM[SHARE]The move is likely to interpreted as a further tightening of regulatory control of the film and TV sectors, and increased involvement of the Communist Party in media matters. That would be i…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:32PM[SHARE]Films with women or minorities in lead roles have led the box office 11 out of 12 weekends this year, according to data from Box Office Mojo, a site that tracks box office revenue. In the…
SOURCE: money.cnn.com at 12:33PM[SHARE]Crowd psychology has been around since the 19th Century. But it's only in the last few decades that there's been a major shift to seeing crowds as more than mindless masses. "The crowd is as…
SOURCE: www.bbc.com at 11:29AM[SHARE]Monday, March 26, 2018
MatÃas Tarnopolsky, 48, executive and artistic director of Cal Performances at the University of California, Berkeley since 2009, is set to become the Philadelphia Orchestra's new pres…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 06:09PM[SHARE]The biggest disparity was seen at Hachette UK, where the median gender pay gap was 24.71%, and the mean gender pay gap was 29.69%. Hachette attributed the imbalance to issues including the h…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:02PM[SHARE]Since he took power from the Muslim Brotherhood in a coup in 2013, the number of journalists and activists in jail has spiked as dissent against his regime has been roundly crushed; ma…
SOURCE: The Atlantic Subscription at 05:32PM[SHARE]Taste buds are actually a collection of roughly 50 to 100 cells that come in three varieties, (each responsible for detecting different tastes"salty, sweet, bitter, umami, and sour) and have…
SOURCE: psmag.com at 05:01PM[SHARE]Since it was announced, the OPC has received strong pushback from people who say the Jackson Park location, which borders different neighborhoods, will destroy valuable green space while dri…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:31PM[SHARE]That's right, you can commune with the spirit of the Renaissance master in this Italian villa where Michelangelo Buonarroti once ambled through the garden, entertained his weekend gues…
SOURCE: The Daily Beast at 04:01PM[SHARE]Franklin Webster "proposed one of the most grandiose schemes that has ever been seriously suggested. His intention was to transform Washington, D.C., into a capital of such beauty and cultur…
SOURCE: The Daily Beast at 03:32PM[SHARE]The world's optimum population is less than two billion people " 5.6 billion fewer than on the planet today, he argues, and there is an increasing toxification of the entire planet by synthe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:01PM[SHARE]Yes, Ferlinghetti has scaled back his involvement with City Lights, where he shares an office with former City Lights Publishers editor Nancy Peters, co-owner of the store. But the celebrate…
SOURCE: www.sfchronicle.com at 02:35PM[SHARE]All of the brain's place cells together represent the entirety of an animal's environment, and whichever place cell is active indicates its current location. In other words, the hippocampus …
SOURCE: nautil.us at 02:00PM[SHARE]"Facebook is now starting to take responsibility for the impact of their platform. And because of the impact of our platform, we feel a responsibility towards sustaining the galleries that m…
SOURCE: news.artnet.com at 01:29PM[SHARE]Whether these transgressions rise to the level of an offense against religious law is a debate best left to theologians. However, examining the worst sins of the philanthropic sector and pos…
SOURCE: nonprofitquarterly.org at 01:01PM[SHARE]"I'm a 40-year-old AIDS researcher who understands that Angels in America is not a particularly interesting or honest representation of those early years of the plague. Indeed, there h…
SOURCE: BuzzFeed at 12:32PM[SHARE]Stranger Things has proven to be the most popular streaming show in the world, leading all online offerings in average demand across nine out of 10 international markets. As Netflix…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 12:01PM[SHARE]"I don't believe that films that are given token qualifications, in a couple of theaters for less than a week, should qualify for Academy Award nominations," he said. "Once you commit to a t…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:32AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 25, 2018
Well into his 30s in 1975, he formed a small orchestra of a dozen young musicians that would become the seed for El Sistema, or the System. Four decades later, the government-financed pro…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:11PM[SHARE]Friday, March 23, 2018
Of course reviews matter. That's easy and predictable enough for someone writing a review to say, but it can be proven. Reviews matter in two ways: as filters, and as shapers of opinion. In …
SOURCE: www.newstatesman.com at 06:01PM[SHARE]What is the line between art and commerce? It is an important question, given that art enjoys broader free speech protections than the latter. It's unlikely a Nike TV spot can successfully c…
SOURCE: www.artsy.net at 05:31PM[SHARE]"The increase in the number of network bodies in the Creative Scotland portfolio signals an acceptance of a model of competitiveness inherited from the Thatcherite government. We quite liked…
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