Tuesday, April 9, 2019
It is remarkably little known that the non-Western genre that has most influenced Western composers is not African or Chinese or Indian " it's Indonesian. " Joe Horowitz
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:56PM[SHARE]The Eagles may have booted Don Felder out of the band, but he was the one who enjoyed a star turn at the Metropolitan Museum's memorable press preview for Play it Loud: Instruments of Rock &…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:55PM[SHARE]"For decades, publishers had confined many black romance authors to all-black lines, marketed only to black readers. Some booksellers continued to shelve black romances separately from white…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:04PM[SHARE]Brooke Clark: "Much of contemporary poetry has become something of an assembly line, turning out verbal representations of minor occurrences in the poet's daily life. Most formulaic are the …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:01PM[SHARE]"'Coding is repetition, and dancing is also repetition,' said Franklyn Athias, senior vice president of IP services at Comcast Cable and the coding instructor at danceLogic [in West Philadel…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:02PM[SHARE]"Every spring, thousands of hula fans descend upon the Hawaiian town of Hilo and line the bleacher seats at Edith Kanaka'ole stadium. Thousands more across the islands … watch live broadca…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03AM[SHARE]"Sometimes adults play children's roles for absurd effect … but the bigger challenge is pulling off realism, creating the illusion that the adults onstage are plausible as the much-younger…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:35AM[SHARE]"The 'harms' that companies could be penalised for include failure to act to take down child abuse, terrorist acts and revenge pornography, as well as behaviours such as cyberbullying, sprea…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:04AM[SHARE]"Two teenagers were charged Monday with setting the January fire that destroyed the Shakespeare Theater in Stratford, Conn., a 1,500-seat venue … [that] was ultimately reduced to a smolder…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:33AM[SHARE]"The National Children's Museum's anticipated new home opens Nov. 1 in the Ronald Reagan Building in downtown Washington, signaling a new chapter for a beloved institution that has been clos…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:17AM[SHARE]"Online art sales value continued to grow in 2018, albeit at a slower rate than in previous years, totaling $4.64 billion … The online art market grew just 9.8% in 2018, a drop from 12% in…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:02AM[SHARE]"According to the musicians' statement, the offer from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association would 'freeze the pension plan at its current level today, thereby prohibiting new hires fro…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:46AM[SHARE]"A Moscow city court judge overturned a decision by a lower tribunal last week to extend his arrest for three more months … The 49-year-old head of Moscow's Gogol Centre theatre " who supp…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:31AM[SHARE]"The Symphony of Southeast Texas violinist Yu Zhao Gu, 60, died of a heart attack that struck during the symphony's Saturday evening performance while sitting beside his wife and stand partn…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:15AM[SHARE]"Arts Council England has revealed it will now decide what to fund based principally on how 'relevant' it is to audiences " and it will 'no longer be enough' to produce high-quality work alo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:00AM[SHARE]"Nineteen federally-funded museums, cultural institutions and events in São Paulo could be impacted by steep budget cuts proposed by the state's governor João Doria, a millionaire who …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:44AM[SHARE]"Opposition parties, including the Indian National Congress, had petitioned the Election Commission to delay the film's release until after the polls close on May 19, on the grounds that it …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:29AM[SHARE]Monday, April 8, 2019
Titus Underwood has been acting principal oboe for more than a year and has just been awarded the position permanently. A graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Music and The Juilliard Schoo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:34PM[SHARE]In his introduction to NEVER A LOVELY SO REAL: The Life and Work of Nelson Algren, Colin Asher begins with "the first thing you should know." " Jan Herman
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:57PM[SHARE]It struck me a couple of months ago that Mrs. T's recent travails had made her even more deserving than usual of a just-because-I-love-you present. It took a bit of thinking and even more lo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:56PM[SHARE]The Jazz Journalists Association has announced its slate of 2019 Jazz Heroes, people who have made significant contributions to the health, well-being and exposure of jazz in their cities an…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:55PM[SHARE]Friday, April 5, 2019
William Kentridge's stagings of The Nose and Lulu were, and next season's Wozzeck will be, packed tight with video imagery. (Yet they're surprisingly easy for the stage technicians.) The wha…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:04PM[SHARE]"The image of a mother made to eat her children was hard to shake, and a couple of decades after its 1594 premiere, artists had already begun to appropriate " O.K., fine, cannibalize " its p…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:01PM[SHARE]Terry Gilliam's The Man Who Killed Don Quixote "has to be one of the unluckiest passion projects in history: In a three-decade stretch, Gilliam, now 78, endured several financing stops and s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:02PM[SHARE]Sasha Weiss: "When I once made the mistake of calling his drag a 'persona,' or a character he plays, he promptly corrected me: 'I'm just exposing what I look like on the inside.' Wearing jea…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03PM[SHARE]It's Been a Minute isn't a comedy show like Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me. Says co-founder and host Sam Sanders, "We kind of trick our listeners into thinking it's like a little fun talk party b…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:04AM[SHARE]In 1969, Arthur Mitchell and Karel Shook started the company in a converted garage. "Together, they wanted to prove to the world something that still needed proving back then: that blacks co…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:36AM[SHARE]Theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli thinks that "counterintuitive phenomena " for example, of time moving slower for faster travelers " will, slowly, become intuitive. 'It has happened with …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:05AM[SHARE]Blame evolution. "Impatience made sure we didn't die from spending too long on a single unrewarding activity. It gave us the impulse to act. But that good thing is gone. The fast pace of soc…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:34AM[SHARE]In fact, a set of scholars now believe, the Greeks based their music on scales and instruments like the lyre that had been developed more than 1,000 years earlier in Babylonia, from which co…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AM[SHARE]On conducting with his whole body: "My model in this is really Leonard Bernstein because he also [conveyed] how every bone of the body should express music while on the podium. Why just limi…
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