Friday, March 8, 2019
"As his work for seven dancers moves from darkness (the staid and somber Assyrian Court) to tranquility (the meditative Chinese Garden Court) and finally lightness (a bright court in the Ame…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:31AM[SHARE]David Patrick Stearns talks with the youthful 37-year-old composer about his new organ concerto (titled Register), the operas he's written already, the massive amounts of music he's churned …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:15AM[SHARE]A pair of British professors write about the AIR Network, a program they set up with colleagues to work with residents of Mukuru, a poor neighborhood in the Kenyan capital, using theatre, ph…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:00AM[SHARE]"Directors with whom AFP spoke describe a paradoxical atmosphere in Russian theatre, in which pressure from authorities co-exists with a burgeoning of opportunities. Actress and director Mar…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:44AM[SHARE]"Serebrennikov, the enfant terrible of Russian theatre, cinema and ballet, has been shuttered in his apartment for two years, accused of embezzlement in what his followers consider political…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:29AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 7, 2019
"Created by Canadian artists Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller, with original music by Ellen Reid and curation by Yuval Sharon, the tour reveals little of the Concert Hall's history, ins…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:04PM[SHARE]The power and imagination in his composing and arranging have made Ed Partyka a major contributor to the European big band scene. The Ed Partyka Jazz Orchestra's two most recent albums refle…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:55PM[SHARE]"Including drama and music, creative arts degrees are studied by approximately 37,000 young people in England each year. Taxpayers provide more to students who study these courses because th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:01PM[SHARE]"We have considerably increased the marketing for our organization and have rebranded the company entirely. We have tripled our seasonal programming, created a series of special performances…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:02PM[SHARE]"The unfortunate thing about [stage] fights is the more you practice them, the better they get, the more out of control they can seem. … We have to work really hard to make sure we actuall…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03PM[SHARE]Troy Patterson: "Its first act is weird and perfect; the second indicates the limits of this salvage operation. In The Complete Lyrics of Alan Jay Lerner, the editors ask, in a headnote, 'Ho…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:04AM[SHARE]Marcello Angelini of Tulsa Ballet: "I think the current system for ballet companies robs dancers of their edge, whereas in Broadway, you need to remain marketable all the time. When a show o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:36AM[SHARE]"The combination of Bach's elegant contrapuntal melodies with jazz swing had instant commercial appeal. [Loussier's LP release] Play Bach No. 1 proved a runaway hit and two follow-up release…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:05AM[SHARE]"The debate about the future of moviegoing shouldn't be a binary one between a studio system increasingly beholden to franchises and intellectual property, and a nihilistic streaming service…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:49AM[SHARE]The next-to-last one, in suburban Perth, Australia, closes this month, leaving only the franchise in Bend, Oregon. "But this is no elegy for Blockbuster, no lament for how Netflix killed the…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:34AM[SHARE]The CSO music director said, in a letter to the board of directors, "I hope that the board will remember that theirs is not a job but a mission, and that tranquility and serenity will be giv…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AM[SHARE]"Archaeologists hunting for a sacred well beneath the ancient Maya city of Chichén Itzá on Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula have accidentally discovered a trove of more than 150 ritual obje…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:03AM[SHARE]"Over the course of Schneemann's multifarious 60-year career, her art came to form the bedrock of radical traditions like performance art and body art, even while she insisted on identifying…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:47AM[SHARE]The star violinist, who runs the chamber music program and is the biggest name among the festival's associate artistic directors, will step down after this year's festival, which begins in t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:32AM[SHARE]"According to research commissioned by the Man Booker International (MBI) prize from Nielsen Book, overall sales of translated fiction in the UK were up last year by 5.5%, with more than 2.6…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:16AM[SHARE]As one publisher put it, "Translated literature has found recent mainstream success partly because books coverage, like Congress, is catching up to the changing culture of America." Yet for …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:01AM[SHARE]The Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa opened in Cape Town in September of 2017 but had a turbulent first year, the biggest event of which was the ousting of its founding executive dire…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:45AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 6, 2019
The National Alliance for Audition Support, launched by the League of American Orchestras, the Sphinx Organization, and the New World Symphony, "offers a range of supports to help musicians …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:57PM[SHARE]"Allow me to introduce myself: I'm Chrysanthe Tan, a real-life, autistic violinist, composer, and recording artist, and in my near-decade of working in many music spheres, I've noticed an un…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:47PM[SHARE]"Intergenerational orchestras boast a unique dynamic: an eight-year old might share a music stand with an octogenarian. These avocational ensembles also foster improved self-confidence, ment…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:45PM[SHARE]"Every identity comes with inherent biases, assumptions, and privileges to varying degrees. A helpful exercise is to take an identity and think of the immediate mental image that comes to mi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:40PM[SHARE]"NYC Health + Hospitals leadership will be expanding its use of the arts in clinical and staff care thanks to a $1.5 million grant. The grant, from philanthropist Laurie M. Tisch via the May…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:38PM[SHARE]Inspired from a conversation with The Movement Theatre Company after their historic #25kin25days campaign for Aleshea Harris' What To Send Up When It Goes Down, Advancing Arts Forward teamed…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:33PM[SHARE]Justin Davidson: "There's a certain slyly subversive quality to the displays of manuscripts, ceiling frescoes, foods, scientific instruments, silverware, home furnishings, and scenes of Mont…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:03PM[SHARE]I began pondering issues related to community engagement almost 30 years ago. What has become clear to me is that the economic pressures faced by institutions presenting Eurocentric art form…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:57PM[SHARE]Dear SFMOMA and Sotheby's: Have you no shame?It's bad enough for a museum to decide it no longer wants a work that it had specifically requested from its owner. It's much worse when that own…
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