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Douglas McLennan

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Alex Ross: The Future Of Orchestra Music Directors

We don’t need more itinerant maestros who draw big salaries in multiple cities. We need more directorships along the lines of ones in which...

Flood Of Books Seek To Explain Sondheim’s Influence On Theatre

Many of the current crop of works can be classified as either “I worked with Steve” books or “I had an ongoing professional and...

Scholars Solve 2,500-Year-Old Grammar Puzzle

The discovery makes it possible to "derive" any Sanskrit word—to construct millions of grammatically correct words including "mantra" and "guru"—using Pāṇini's revered "language machine,"...

How Storytelling Will Drive Our Response To Climate Change

The environmental crisis is one of overconsumption, carbon emissions, and corporate greed. But it’s also a crisis of miscommunication. In 2023, storytelling will finally...

University Of California Settles Strike With Academic Workers

The deal promises to substantially increase pay for some 36,000 unionized workers, including teaching assistants, researchers and tutors, many of whom are graduate students....

How Frank Gehry Brings His Projects In On Time And On Budget

In the quarter-century since the Guggenheim Bilbao, Frank Gehry’s projects have repeatedly come close to or met the same demanding standard. - Harvard Business Review

Hundreds Of Musicians Sign Petition Asking Juilliard To Suspend Composer From Faculty

By late Friday, after an initial 120 people had signed the letter, Beaser, 68, a former chair of the prestigious Manhattan music school’s composition...

Pope Francis Will Return Parthenon Marble Fragments To Greece

Although the Vatican fragments will belong to the church rather than the state, a museum spokeswoman said they would be “reunited in their positions,”...

Dance Magazine’s 25 Dancers To Watch In 2023

These trailblazers and breakout stars are forging their own paths through our field. - Dance Magazine

Inside Disney’s Leadership Coup

That Mr. Iger was unhappy with Mr. Chapek is well established. Less well known is the depth of his antipathy and the lengths he...

In Latest Version Of France’s Most Important Literary Prize, Inmates Do The Judging

The inmates were part of the very first edition of a new, government-sponsored literary prize bestowed by prisoners. The award, called the Goncourt des...

E.J. Dionne: It’s Time To Make Book-Banning Politically Unpopular

Opponents of censorship heartily agree that parents should have an important say in how schools work and how public libraries serve our children. What...

What Good Memoirs Can Do For You

We tend to imagine the memoirist as a naive spiller of information about their life, as in religious confession, rather than the intentional constructor...

Is TikTok A Threat To Music?

Commercial radio normalised popular music’s relationship to advertising. But the collapse between content and advertising exemplified by TikTok prompts us to consider how music making and...

BookForum Dead? Does This Look Like A Dying Magazine?

Either way, here’s what I know: I’m tired of losing outlets to conglomeration. I’m tired of culture being under siege because of money, of...

What Do The Fast Closings Of Shows Like KPOP Say About Diversity On Broadway?

Has the predominant Broadway tradition of shows by and featuring white artists, playing to white audiences, created a barrier that makes it harder for...

Smithsonian’s Tsione Wolde-Michael To Lead President’s Council On The Arts And Humanities

Under a new Executive Order PCAH has been established to engage the nation’s artists, humanities scholars, and cultural heritage practitioners on ways to promote excellence...

The Battle Between Wisdom And Identity

I would argue that part of the reason that wisdom has been downgraded in education is because of the very opposition between universal truth...

The 84-Year-Old Dissident Muralist Waging War In Russia

Mr. Ovchinnikov is a rare dissident in Russia, where public criticism of the war can land people in jail or exile. He said his age and...

AI-Generator Allows You To Compose Music Using Images

AI-generated music is already an innovative enough concept, but Riffusion takes it to another level with a clever, weird approach that produces weird and compelling...

Fake Twitter Accounts Tease Dream Sondheim Broadway Opening (Not Happening)

The problem is, Square One is not coming to Broadway (for now, anyway) and the announcement was a hoax. A representative who worked with...

Well That Didn’t Last Long. Boston Symphony CEO Steps Down After 18 Months

Gail Samuel, who came to the BSO from the Los Angeles Philharmonic in June 2021, will formally leave the orchestra on Jan. 3 — an...

English Is A Global Language. New Words Are Coming From Everywhere

The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) has documented many of the words that these new communities of English speakers have added to the vocabulary. - The Guardian

Australia’s National Gallery On The Edge Of A Financial Cliff

The National Gallery of Australia is headed for a financial cliff next year and contemplating drastic measures including forced redundancies, the closure of the...

Are Public Protests Undemocratic?

The fact that people protest when they don’t accept the outcome of the democratic process is a rather clear sign that protests are a...
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