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Now We Know What New Orleans Without Mardi Gras Music Is
His city—our cities—aren’t empty now. They’re just pretty much shut down. There’s a social media campaign attached to the Jazz & Heritage Foundation’s new...
Martin Scorsese: How Streaming Is Killing The Movie Art
Scorsese acknowledges streamers benefit his career (without Netflix there would be no “The Irishman,” and without Apple there would be no “Killers of the...
How Bang On A Can Changed Contemporary Music
These days, Bang is a sprawling artistic conglomerate, with an annual budget of $2 million to $2.5 million, a dedicated record label, a virtuoso...
Indianapolis Museum Staff Demand CEO Resign Over Job Posting
A group of 85 Newfields employees and members of the Board of Governors released a public letter Tuesday that calls for president Charles Venable to...
San Francisco Opera To Return To The Stage With Drive-In Opera
“There is a certain visceral quality about being in the same location together and experiencing art. I’m giddy with anticipation at the thought of...
The Cultural Significance Of Magazines
“The best way to think about magazines is as the analog Internet—they’d foster communities of people, just like on social networks,” Steven Lomazow, a...
Finally: More Money, Resources For Black Theatre?
In the last seven months, there has been a groundswell of support for Black-owned businesses and nonprofits that are focused on specifically and directly...
Why We Have Difficulty Trusting Science
Precisely the same methods, and precisely the same leaps of brilliance and faith that led in some cases to science that has withstood the...
Claim: The COVID Shutdown Has Revolutionized And Democratized Theatre
"The result is a worldwide swarm of approaches that have profoundly opened up the possibilities of the form, most likely for good. The word...
Composer Gets No Play Until She Puts Her Music Out Under Male Pseudonym
A change of name it all started to click. After adopting the pseudonym Arthur Parker her pieces were getting the airplay she had struggled...
Everyone’s Pivoting – Here’s What’s Relevant To Classical Music
According to Eric Ries, author of The Lean Startup, there are ten different kinds of pivots. At least six out of them are relevant...
Documentary: Could It Be Years Before Big Music Festivals Return?
"If, like me, you happened to watch the documentary mere hours after hearing that statement, the Glastonbury scene took on a whole different kind...
How A Bad Joke Ended Up In Canada’s Top Court
Comedian Mike Ward made a bad joke about a teenager with a disability back in 2010. The victim sued and the case is now...
To Understand The Problems With Big Tech Platforms We Need To Understand What’s At...
Harvesting data at scale makes us collectively vulnerable in ways that go beyond breaches of individual privacy. This is a new and nasty problem:...
Music Critic Peter G. Davis, 84
He was longtime critic for New York Magazine. Peter was best known as an authority on opera — his 1997 book The American Opera...
How A Young Pianist Learns About The Liszt Sonata From Historic Recordings
“I almost feel like you should know the notable recordings of a work like this,” Benjamin Grosvenor said of the sonata in a recent...
The Line Between Audiobook And Theatrical Play
"When different narrators take on chapters devoted to different characters’ points of view, the listener’s engagement with the book can be heightened. On the...
Was Some Of Ravel’s Best Music The Product Of A Brain Disorder?
“Think of it like traffic. There’s the language road, there’s the music road, there’s the seeing road, there’s the images road. Language is like...
The Problem With Museums
"If the postmodernism of the 1980s considered the museum to be in crisis and contemplated its “ruins,” today many see these same institutions as...
Are American Progressive Ideas A Threat To France’s Identity?
French politicians, high-profile intellectuals and journalists are warning that progressive American ideas — specifically on race, gender, post-colonialism — are undermining their society. “There’s...
The Latest Dance Craze Sweeping The World
Jerusalema is a song by South African house musician Master KG. Friends in Angola filmed themselves dancing to the hit - the moves have...
The Five-Second Error In The “Nutcracker” Score
He suspects the engraver made the mistake while copying the score, and it didn’t get caught during proofreading. If Tchaikovsky noticed, there’s no indication...
The Agents Behind Hollywood’s Book-To-Movie Boom
“The entire structure of the traditional book-to-film deal has changed. Our authors are now at the cutting edge of those deals, in the selling...
Rauschenberg, Twombly And Johns – A Great Art Love Triangle
Rauschenberg and Twombly were both southerners. Rauschenberg, who was quarter Cherokee, came from Texas, Twombly from the heart of the old Confederacy in Lexington,...
The Chamber Music Series Getting Ten Times Its Usual Audience (And Making Money)
There’s one metric, however, that stands out as a marker of success. Philadelphia Chamber Music Society’s virtual concerts are technically free of charge, but...