Wednesday, April 15, 2020
“Though many libraries have sent workers home, with pay, several systems in states like Texas, Massachusetts and Colorado have required at least some staff members to keep coming to work. …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:18AMThe five remaining regular-season concerts are being rescheduled (with some change of program) to August and September, and 2020’s Summer at Orchestra Hall (formerly Sommerfest) will be po…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AM“The salaries of those earning $100,000 or more — just under half the company — will be reduced by 10 to 20 percent for five months, starting in May, [a] memo said. The pay of executiv…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AM“But, in typical Cannes style, the festival did not close the door entirely. Instead of canceling outright, organizers said they are exploring contingencies to make ‘Cannes 2020 real, in…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:12AMIn order to divert those of you who, like me, are staying home these days, I’ve been posting images from what a friend calls “the Teachout Museum.” The latest is of a 1990 lithograph b…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:48AMFor his recent collection Common Practice, pianist and composer Ethan Iverson has put together a quartet with bassist Ben Street, drummer Eric McPherson, and trupmeter Tom Harrell at a peak …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:48AMEven with so many Beethoven 250th-birthday concerts being cancelled, the world needs to hear pieces of his that haven’t already been played a zillion times. This one is solid, perfectly en…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:48AMTuesday, April 14, 2020
The 82-year-old, suffering from dementia, was last seen on March 31, walking the grounds of his cliffside oceanfront property near the eastern tip of Long Island. – The New York Times
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:48PM“Roughly 5 million people around the world logged on to YouTube to view the half-hour sacred music concert as it was happening. By Monday night the archived performance had 32 million view…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:48PMMarina Harss writes about Jessica Lang teaching principles of dance composition to participants — all socially isolating at home — in David Hallberg’s ABT Incubator program. – Dance …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:36PM“While non-essential workers are still housebound, pictures from around the world show surreal scenes of Tyvek suit-wearing workers spraying down eerily empty spaces like Hagia Sophia in I…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:36PM“The ‘At Home Gala’ the company is planning for Saturday, April 25, … will feature more than 40 artists, including stars like Anna Netrebko, Jonas Kaufmann and Renée Fleming, perfor…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:32AMThe giant annual alterna-conclave doesn’t take place until the end of August, but even so, “the organizers of Burning Man announced on Friday that they will not be assembling 80,000 peop…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:32AM“The 1.7 million figure that [CEO Meg] Whitman cited does not indicate how many people signed up for the app, which is offering an extended 90-day free trial. Once the trial ends, Quibi �…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:32AM“High-profile booksellers seeking recourse have flocked to the platform. … Yet a number of the stores that were among the first to launch successful campaigns in the wake of the novel co…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:32AMOrganizers called off the festival, scheduled for July 3-23, within minutes of an announcement by France’s President Macron that, because of the COVID epidemic, it would be unsafe to hold …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:32AM“The striking scene included messages of thanks in many languages, along with images of nurses and doctors smiling in protective gear. The word ‘hope’ was also projected onto the statu…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:32AMA benefit concert from last November, in which 79 stage performers did songs from Disney musicals, was going to be streamed online to benefit the Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS COVID-19 E…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:32AMI’ve been skimming through a complete collection of Chekhov’s stories. There’s lotsa chaff — small anecdotes published in newspapers from early days that don’t do much and weren’…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:48AMIf you’ve already seen the Max-&-Dan video that the Met posted today to mark this unexpectedly somber occasion, you may have wondered about the identity of the head peering over Direct…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:48AMFriday, April 10, 2020
The popular composer, who died in 2013, finished writing Krishna in 2005, but it was never published or produced and few were aware of its existence. Then the Crown Prince, a longtime friend…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42PM“For many decades, he has been trying to delight Alfred Yankovic, the bright, painfully shy kid who grew up alone in his tiny bedroom. For the benefit of that lonely boy, he reshaped the w…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42PM“Soundstage, a podcast series from Playwrights Horizons announced on Thursday, allows listeners to experience world premieres by playwrights including Robert O’Hara, Heather Christian, L…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:32PM“Don Gonyea, NPR’s roving national political correspondent, has a lot of experience recording high-quality audio outside of a studio. He often records his features and spots from hotel r…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:32PMSays critic David Apatoff, “The parallel is very exact. Just like [Norman] Rockwell was the centerpiece of the Saturday Evening Post, Drucker did the same thing for Mad magazine with his p…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:24AM“AMC Theatres — whose business has effectively shut down because of the coronavirus pandemic — looks increasingly likely to file for bankruptcy with its cash reserves dwindling, accord…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:24AMTheresa Ruth Howard: “In 2018 I wrote an article about how Instagram was changing the value system of the dance world. It took to task the hyper-sexualization of the body’s facility, the…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:24AM“Not only is A.I. a tool for artists, who are employing machine intelligence in fascinating ways, it is also frequently a topic to be examined — sometimes in the same piece. And underlyi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:24AMAt the end of March, Gardners announced that it could not keep staffers at a safe distance from each other and still pack and send out books. Four days later, the company was back at work �…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AM“Arts and culture organizations across the country are estimated to have lost a combined $4.5 billion because of the health crisis so far, according to an ambitious new survey conducted by…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AM“Christie’s auction house has agreed to pay $16.7 million to the Manhattan District Attorney for failing to properly collect New York sales tax between 2013 and 2017. The bombshell settl…
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