Yeah, hello, déjà vu: "Signature Theater, a prominent Off Broadway nonprofit, has postponed its return to the stage over concerns about the persistent coronavirus pandemic, becoming the first major New York theater to take such a step." - The New York Times
Ask academic and writer Nancy Wang Yuen: "As minorities, women of color often occupy precarious positions in universities, particularly in leadership. Ji-Yoon describes this when she says to Yaz, 'I don’t feel like I inherited an English Department; I feel like someone handed me a ticking time bomb because they wanted to make sure a woman was holding...
Rubén Miranda hosts a five-hour radio show that "specializes in the Mexican version of oldies-but-goodies: corridos, boleros, norteñas, trios and duets but especially rancheras — ballads of love and the rural life that old and young Mexicans still sing and listen to on both sides of the border." - Los Angeles Times
The idea of reading to help us think better (whatever that means) waxes and wanes with the times: "A decade ago, the fashion was to be pessimistic about the prospects of improving our thinking, and even about the value of thinking at all." - The Guardian (UK)
Perhaps her fame feels obvious now, but "Franklin's rise to superstardom wasn't easy. When she left the world of gospel music to try to become a mainstream pop star, it meant a move into a segment of the industry that was dominated by men who had very specific assumptions about how a woman should sing – and what she...
People in two communities in rural Colombia "wanted to use photography not only to document the aftermath of war and violence, but also to actively support peace" - and sometimes that included taking action as well as photos. - FastCompany
Mitchener is "a vocalist (arguably the UK’s boldest operatic voice), movement artist ('dancer' isn’t quite right) and composer whose work cuts across music, theatre, dance, art and research. Her power is in her ability to generate intense collective empathy in a room." - The Guardian (UK)
Greenfield wrote nearly 50 books for children, stories told with joy, rhythm, melody, and enlightenment. Her "expressive poetry and prose illuminated the lives of Black people, including those of midwives during slavery and the Southerners who, like her family, moved north during the Great Migration." - The New York Times
"The music school's young students, teachers and faculty are staying home — they have reason to fear." The Taliban have banned music, and killed musicians, in the past - and the ANIM featured boys and girls learning music together. - NPR
Morgan "made his international debut at the Vienna State Opera in 1982, conducting Mozart’s Abduction From the Seraglio in the city where the composer spent much of his life, before an infamously fastidious and unforgiving audience. He later said his only goal was to get in and out of the State Opera without being booed. As it happened, he...
"We love trauma onstage. But while we have long understood that expertise is necessary to keep performers physically safe, the mental aspects of our craft have been largely unsupported. ... In a profession that prides itself on unprecedented emotional feats, we have yet to apply this same principle to the mental health of our artists." - American Theatre
