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What Happened To Franck’s Smash Hit Symphony?

OK, smash hit in that it was an absolute standard of the repertory for many orchestras - until it disappeared. "The variety of conductors who performed the Franck suggests that its longevity came partly from its uncanny ability to withstand a range of interpretations." - The New York Times

Vimeo Walks Back Its Policy Shift That Suddenly Charged Indie Creators Thousands Of Dollars

Good apology, but "it’s worth noting that these changes won’t necessarily make Vimeo a better option for the creators that were hit with high prices by the legacy policy." - The Verge

There’s Never Just One

William Hurt's former partner Donna Kaz adds her voice to the discussion about surviving abuse from a famous partner. "You have to understand something about surviving violence. It is always with you. It is something you will never get over." - Variety

The Arts’ Digital Problem

Digitalization has affected both the demand and supply for cultural content. Increasingly sophisticated technology and adoption of digital devices to experience things remote because of the pandemic have developed a taste for new ways to “tour” museums, “attend” theatre and participate in book readings. - The Conversation

Met Animates Under-Seen Rococo With Disney

The Met's eighteenth-century “decorative arts” usually languish in the museum’s emptiest galleries. Yet when Disney animated them into characters like the candlestick Lumiére in Beauty and the Beast or into scenes in Cinderella (1950)... - ArtForum

Why Are Black Women Museum Leaders Quitting?

The swift departures of these women in leadership positions have generally been swept under the proverbial rug, where these women quietly navigate the complexities of their short tenures. - Artnet

How The Dua Lipa Plagiarism Case Could Change Music

If either Artikal Sound System or Linzer and Brown win their case, songwriters may have even more to worry about. Will one measure of similar music be legitimate grounds for a lawsuit then? - Slate

Remembering Dance Critic Clement Crisp, 95

Crisp's dance reviews for the Financial Times – "the pink 'un" – from 1970 until 2020 were legendary for their passionate fastidiousness about ballerinas and high style, their acuity about rising talents and the difficulties of creativity, and – often – their ferocity, when he saw something he thought a blight. - The Arts Desk

The Anti-Putin Songs That Have Gone Viral In Ukraine

A track titled “Bayraktar,” of indeterminate origin, has been receiving hundreds of thousands of plays online, and is in rotation on Ukrainian radio. Over a simple beat, a gravelly voice insults Russian President Vladmir Putin’s forces. - The Atlantic

Neal Stephenson, The Tech Billionaires’ Favorite Sci-Fi Writer

His 1992 novel Snow Crash is the source of the trem "metaverse"; his 1999 Cryptonomicon basically predicted cryptocurrency. With fans from Jeff Bezos to Bill Gates to Peter Thiel to Sergey Brin, "Neal Stephenson might be the most influential novelist among business tycoons since Ayn Rand." - The Baffler

15 Things That Suck About Museums

Walking around a museum can feel a little off-putting when you know that workers aren’t being paid a fair wage — and, in the case of the Penn Museum, are even subject to union busting. - Hyperallergic

Why Don’t More North American Orchestras Have Adequate HR Staff?

Orchestral musicians have difficult jobs, yes. But they have notoriously low job satisfaction, and the workplace atmosphere can become fraught or even toxic. But orchestra personnel managers rarely have HR training, and few administrations have personnel professionals to manage the problems that inevitably arise. - Van

Classical Music, Politics, And The Ethics Around War

The reactions to people being banned and insisting, Oh, we’re not politicians, we’re artists, and therefore what we’re doing is not political—I think that musicologists are alert to that and raise an eyebrow and say, like, No, even if you think you’re not political, we’re all political actors. - The New Yorker

How Brooklyn Mack Suddenly Found Himself In Charge Of A Ballet Company

The company is the one where Mack first studied, Columbia Classical Ballet in South Carolina. Last fall, artistic director Radenko Pavlovich visited his hometown, Sarajevo — and never came back, becoming ballet master there and recommended his star pupil to fill in at CCB for the season. - Free Times (Columbia, SC)

End Of An Era: Humana Theatre Festival Calls It Quits

Several of the more than 400 plays presented at the festival have gone on to win wider accolades — “The Gin Game” by D.L. Coburn, “Dinner With Friends” by Donald Margulies and “Crimes of the Heart” by Beth Henley, all won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama — and the event is often regarded as a milestone in the careers...

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