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Paul Ganson, Who Saved Detroit’s Orchestra Hall, Dead At 79
The Detroit Symphony's assistant principal bassoonist from 1969-2004, he had been with the orchestra one year when he launched the Save Orchestra Hall campaign,...
Hollywood’s Hottest Young Director Is A Chinese Woman Who Makes Westerns
Chloé Zhao came to L.A. from Beijing to finish high school and go to college, got a poli-sci degree from Mount Holyoke, went to...
What Better Use For An Empty IKEA Store Than As An Arts Center?
That's what could happen in the English city of Coventry: the Swedish furniture chain closed its store there last year, Coventry is the UK's...
Why Disney Really Fired Gina Carano From ‘The Mandalorian’
It wasn't just because she likened being a conservative in America today to being a Jew in 1930s Germany on Instagram. "Carano had become...
Opera Singers Help Long-Term COVID Patients Get Their Breath Back
"Called E.N.O. Breathe and developed by the English National Opera in collaboration with a London hospital, the six-week program offers patients customized vocal lessons:...
Second City Has A Buyer
Last summer, after the pandemic led to the layoff of two-thirds of the company's staff and accusations by alumni of color of serious race...
San Francisco Opera Is Returning To Live Performance With A Drive-In Show
The company's first staged presentation, set for April and May, will be a 90-minute English-language adaptation of Rossini's Barber of Seville on an outdoor...
French Mayor Ordered Museums Reopened, COVID Be Damned. French Court Orders Them Closed Again
An administrative court in Montpellier ruled that Louis Aliot, mayor of Perpignan (and Marine Le Pen's number-two in the far-right party National Rally, and...
Actress Fired From ‘The Color Purple’ After Anti-Gay Posts Loses Lawsuit
A British employment tribunal unanimously rejected Seyi Omooba's claims of breach of contract and religious discrimination, finding that "there is no breach of contract...
1,000-Year-Old Murals Identified In German Cathedral
"A series of frescoes showing the life and death of John the Baptist in the cathedral of the Bavarian city of Augsburg have been...
Reimagine Yourself
The failure to lift our eyes and see that our core work can and should be connecting people with art is the principal source...
COVID Has Shown Us That Theatre Is Too Dependent On Its Buildings
Lyn Gardner: "At their best, are creative powerhouses, community hubs, a place of inspiration, succour and sanctuary. But often they come with self-perpetuating,...
Jorge Morel, Classical Guitarist And Composer, Dead At 89
" added a vast repertoire to his instrument and performed to packed concerts around the world. … In between classical concerts, Mr. Morel paid...
‘A Thunderclap”, Says Publisher: Unknown Work By Proust Coming This Spring
"The texts in The Seventy-Five Pages were written in 1908, around the time Proust began working on In Search of Lost Time, which...
‘Drenching Richness’: Alex Ross Revisits The Films Of Andrei Tarkovsky
Ross fell under the director's spell upon seeing Andrei Rublev in college. "The long pandemic months seemed a good time to burrow back into...
Black Dancers And Dance Companies Worry They Won’t Be Able To Survive Pandemic
Broadway dancer NaTonia Monét says that, even when theaters finally start up again, "you have your few Black shows that come along, but other...
Keeping Up Live Performance As The World Goes Virtual
"We have a total commitment to live performance. That's what we do. We're not a film company," says the director of the Annenberg Center...
Santa Fe Opera Hires New Boss With New Title
With the previous artistic director, Alexander Neef (who was shared with the Canadian Opera Co.), having left for the Paris Opera, Santa Fe decided...
Johnny Pacheco, Giant Of Latin Jazz And Salsa, Dead At 85
"Pacheco, a Juilliard-trained multi-instrumentalist who'd found success recording with his band, Pacheco y Su Charanga, sparked a musical revolution when, in 1964, he met...
Here’s What A British Musician Now Has To Go Through To Work In Europe
While the UK was in the EU, a British musician could pretty much just accept a gig and go. Now she has to apply...
Italy’s Art Museums Emerge From Lockdown, And They Have Lessons For The Rest Of...
"'We are now where you will be in a few days,' wrote novelist Francesca Melandri in a piece for the Guardian newspaper in late...
Liz Lerman Talks Movement & Discord
The choreographer, performer, writer, educator, and speaker shares her creative process and the connection between movement and discord. - Aaron Dworkin
Empty Movie Theaters Are Being Rented Out To Video Gamers
The cinema chain Malco has been doing this in six Southern states since November, and the South Korean chain CGV started it in January....
Choreographer Annie-B Parson Says The Pandemic Has Made Us All Dancers
"I realized right away with COVID that people were becoming dancers, in that their spatial awareness was growing. We were literally afraid of each...
Now That ‘The Great Gatsby’ Is In The Public Domain, Will It Be Understood...
The novel has been misinterpreted for a long time: just after it was published, Fitzgerald complained to Edmund Wilson that "of all the reviews,...