Tuesday, April 10, 2018
"In books, biographies, monographs and program notes, Mr. Guest became one of the foremost authorities on dance in the Napoleonic and Victorian eras and notably on the Paris Opera Ballet. Ja…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:45AM[SHARE]"Plans for the first opera house in the country's second city, Jeddah, are already under way."
SOURCE: www.bbc.com at 07:31AM[SHARE]Friday, April 6, 2018
We know that most ancient Greek poetry was meant to be sung; we know a lot about the instruments, the rhythms, and the music theory. A few examples of notated melody have survived the millen…
SOURCE: www.historytoday.com at 02:04PM[SHARE]"Look at the similarities: the Cold War secrecy between the US and Russia, the boardrooms packed with middle-aged men in suits, the supposedly infallible machine which is intent on slaughter…
SOURCE: www.bbc.com at 01:01PM[SHARE]The story of "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" and its creators, Jay Gorney and E.Y. "Yip" Harburg.
SOURCE: www.tabletmag.com at 11:03AM[SHARE]"With an impressive resume that includes training as a singer and experience as a stage manager and production director, [Ian Derrer] previously worked with Dallas Opera, between 2014 and 20…
SOURCE: The Dallas Morning News at 10:35AM[SHARE]Reporter Michael Paulson talks to John Legend (Jesus), Brandon Victor Dixon (Judas), Sara Bareilles (Mary Magdalene), and Alice Cooper (King Herod).
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:04AM[SHARE]"For years, the Lloyd Webber canon has been a bit of a cultural punching bag. It's not hard to see why: His two most popular musicals are, respectively, a nearly plotless anthology sung by p…
SOURCE: slate.com at 09:33AM[SHARE]After the five teenagers spray-painted swastikas and graffiti on a 19th-century schoolhouse for black children, a judge ordered them to read books from a list that included (among others) El…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:17AM[SHARE]Apollo and Venus, painted between 1595 and 1600 by Otto van Veen (a teacher of Rubens), had been donated (with other works) to the Des Moines Women's Club, which used the pieces as the nucle…
SOURCE: www.smithsonianmag.com at 09:02AM[SHARE]"Mrs. Heinz, the British-born widow of Henry J. 'Jack' Heinz II, was a quiet but influential force in the literary and cultural life of the United States and Britain for decades. She endowed…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:46AM[SHARE]"Under the terms of the deal, the museum can sell all 40 works - but with one major caveat. Once the proceeds from the sale reach $55 million, it cannot sell any more art. Furthermore, Norma…
SOURCE: news.artnet.com at 08:31AM[SHARE]Emily Nemens, 34, comes from Baton Rouge, where she has been a co-editor of The Southern Review for five years. Shew replaces Lorin Stein, who resigned in December following a board investig…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:15AM[SHARE]"A former NASA chief scientist and a leader in the effort to send humans to Mars will make history as the first woman to lead the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum. Ellen Stofan wi…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:00AM[SHARE]"He is probably best known for his first film at Ghibli, the critically acclaimed Grave of the Fireflies (1988), a tale of two children struggling to survive at the end of World War II. Taka…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 07:44AM[SHARE]The "Statue of Unity", a 600-foot-tall figure of Sardar Vallabhbai Patel (an anti-colonial leader who became independent India's first deputy prime minister), is going up on a small island i…
SOURCE: hyperallergic.com at 07:34AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 5, 2018
Linguist John McWhorter explains the reasons (such as our language's mongrel origins) in this Lexicon Valley podcast.
SOURCE: Slate at 04:02PM[SHARE]Derek Bermel, artistic director of the American Composers Orchestra: "I've spoken to several artistic administrators and conductors who insist that their audiences aren't asking for more of …
SOURCE: nmbx.newmusicusa.org at 02:01PM[SHARE]"An enigmatic group portrait of sorts, Las Meninas is populated by an odd cast of characters, including a princess, a nun, a dwarf, and the Baroque artist himself. A stark divergence from tr…
SOURCE: www.artsy.net at 01:02PM[SHARE]The Museum of Ice Cream. The Museum of Feelings. The Candy Museum. And, inevitably, the Museum of Selfies. Mitchell Kuga argues that these often-corporate-sponsored projects (the Museum of F…
SOURCE: hyperallergic.com at 12:03PM[SHARE]"The canon is lousy with authors who yearn to be admired for their sensitivity to the full range of female personhood, be that personhood luscious, pert, or swelling coyly against a sheer ca…
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 11:04AM[SHARE]Emblemizing the split are author Roxane Gay ("[the show is] further normalizing Trump and his warped, harmful political ideologies") and comedian Sarah Silverman ("I like that Trumpers will …
SOURCE: The Atlantic Subscription at 10:36AM[SHARE]The February 2019 tour, with vocalist/bassist Esperanza Spalding as guest artist, has been called off because the U.S. Embassy in Havana, which has withdrawn 60% of its staff after many of t…
SOURCE: ca.news.yahoo.com at 10:05AM[SHARE]In the fall of 2015, OSF announced the controversial project "Play on!", in which 36 playwrights were commissioned to "translate" the 36 plays into modern English, creating companion works f…
SOURCE: American Theatre at 09:34AM[SHARE]Well, they would say that, wouldn't they? Even so, Jennifer Stahl reports: "Dr. Matthew Henley, a professor at Texas Women's University [and a former dancer for Seán Curran], is gathering…
SOURCE: www.dancemagazine.com at 09:18AM[SHARE]"The sons, Roger and Brian, claim that the sale of 270 films under their father's New Horizons Picture Corp banner - which they refer to as 'stolen film properties' - violated an irrevocable…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:03AM[SHARE]"The irony is not lost on Ian Wardropper, the director of the Frick Collection: The very gated garden that upended the museum's previous attempt to renovate its 1914 Gilded Age mansion is no…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:47AM[SHARE]"Created in the 1960s [on the western edge of Greenwich Village], Westbeth brought together icons such as Diane Arbus, Robert De Niro Sr. and Benny Andrews. Merce Cunningham headquartered hi…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 08:32AM[SHARE]"3. Ignoring your hands. Give yourself a stock list of things to do with your hands, especially if you tend to always hold them in ballet positions. Gesture is completely different from port…
SOURCE: www.dancemagazine.com at 08:16AM[SHARE]"[His] compelling narratives chronicled the business of extortion by Colombian terrorist groups, Vietnam War reporters who turned a skeptical eye on sunny government accounts of the conflict…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:01AM[SHARE]Salman Khan, who has made more than 100 movies and is known as both a romantic hero and an action star, has been convicted for illegally killing two rare blackbuck antelopes during while on …
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