Karen Ewald, Executive Director of the Hawaii State Foundation on Culture & the Arts, talks about leadership during adversity including the Lahaina fires.
Freakonomics Radio has a new three part series on the economic landscape facing live theatre. Part One is here, and part two is here, which as a supporting act in an episode with Lin-Manuel Miranda, has me trying to coherently explain cost disease in the theatre, where it comes from and its implications. Part three will come next week,...
Kabalevsky contratulates Bernstein Today’s online Persuasion/The American Purpose runs an essay of mine building on the growing awareness that “soft power”
In my last post I wrote about the Cato Institute’s Ryan Bourne’s call to eliminate the National Endowment for the Arts. Here I will consider a different approach from the right, Mark Bauerlein’s “MAGA needs High Art, Not just Kid Rock”, from the New York Times. He writes about the National Endowment for the Humanities as well as the NEA, but I...
Two opinion pieces were published this week giving different conservative takes on what to do with the NEA. I’ll talk about Mark Bauerlein’s New York Times Op-Ed in the next post; here I look at the Cato Institute’s Ryan Bourne’s briefing paper “End the National Endowment for the Arts”.
To begin I’ll skip all the way to his last paragraph, which begins:
There...
Robert Taylor, Director of Bands and Professor of Conducting at Northwestern University’s Bienen School of Music, shares his approach to diverse repertoire and inspiring individual voices in group ensembles.
