Known especially for the use of glissando, "(she) composed 17 symphonies, along with numerous works for small ensembles and voice, … pieces that were seldom performed in her home country, the United States, but found audiences in Europe, where she lived much of her professional life." - The New York Times
A new theory proposes the brain sorts memories by how likely they are to be useful as guides in the future. Memories of predictable things are saved in the brain’s neocortex, where they can contribute to generalizations about the world. Memories less likely to be useful are kept in the hippocampus. - Quanta
Runnicles was appointed Music Director in 2007 and began his tenure in 2009. He extended his contract in 2016 and in 2020 extended it until 2027. - OperaWire
All of us experience aesthetic properties when we’re not in a condition to fully appreciate them because we are tired or distracted. Yet the virtues of a work may still be apparent to us. If the apprehension of aesthetic properties is tied to feeling states, how are dispassionate observers able to identify them? - 3 Quarks Daily
Streaming provided an explosion of opportunity at first, but profits dried up along with the pool of potential subscribers. The dual strike is happening in part because companies focused on cost-cutting measures like shorter seasons and smaller writers rooms. - Washington Post
On 15 August, prominent writers criticised the way their reviews had been quoted on the back cover of the paperback edition of Peterson’s book, published by Penguin Random House. - The Guardian
Bradley Cooper’s long-awaited second film as director — screened at the Venice Film Festival to rapturous applause. The drama about the life of legendary stage composer Leonard Bernstein landed a seven-minute standing ovation at its world premiere at the Sala Grande Theatre on Saturday night. - Variety
"Santa Cruz Shakespeare … hit 114% of its box-office goal for the year before its summer season even finished. And its 2024 lineup expands to five plays from the customary three, extending its summer calendar into September and then mounting a winter holiday show." - MSN (San Francisco Chronicle)
"I stream plenty of movies, and listen to most of my music on Spotify. The real reason I stuck it out was the queue. Netflix allows DVD subscribers to save titles to a list of films, which are then sent in the order in which you added them. I’ve grown very attached." - The Atlantic
"In the last couple of weeks, we've done everything from synthy backing vocals to full-blooded Poulenc; we have opera choruses coming in the Last Night of the Proms, we've got an entirely a cappella (concert) after that. So within the course of two weeks, we've got four wildly different programmes." - Bachtrack
“Politics has to cool off, but I don’t know if that changes anytime soon. It’s a bummer. Now we feel like any other genre, with a bunch of knuckleheads. You lose that innocence and it’s hard to get it back.” - Rolling Stone
"Valuable items can be seized by Hamas … or sold by smugglers. There is little funding and equipment to adequately excavate or maintain historical sites. Sometimes they are damaged in Israeli offensives. Yet a clutch of dedicated archaeologists and activists … (is) working hard to preserve the area's ancient past." - The Observer (UK)
Cable TV has become too expensive for consumers and providers, Charter Communications said in an 11-page presentation to investors on Friday, adding that cord-cutters and rising fees are contributing to a “vicious video cycle.” - The New York Times
"The dancers on this unusual summer voyage" — English National Ballet was performing in the 1,000-seat theater aboard the Queen Mary 2 last month — "were accustomed to the laws of aerodynamics. But here in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, hydrodynamics were their newfound adversary." - MSN (The Washington Post)
We think we’re gonna end up with about 15,000 more tickets sold than in 2022. And student groups are coming back. That was a big, big blow for many theaters and OSF as well because when COVID happened, schools shut down field trips and all that. But we’re getting student groups back. - Oregon Public Broadcasting
