This Week In Understanding Audience Stories: America’s Creative Divide Isn’t Where You Think This Week: There’s a creative divide in America but it’s not where you think… Rethinking the modern concert hall in favor of the audience… Is glamour an ineffective sell for pop music?… A link … read more
AJBlog: AJ Arts AudiencePublished 2016-09-11
Weekend Extra: Alex Riel Meets Bill Evans Listeners rarely have the opportunity to witness world-class musicians prepare for a performance. In the autumn of1966, pianist Bill Evans toured Europe with his regular bassist, Eddie Gomez. Danish drummer Alex Riel joined them for … read more
AJBlog: RiffTidesPublished 2016-09-10
In Case Facebook Is Watching Nick Ut / Associated Press [1972]AP Photographer Nick Ut’s famous Pulitzer Prize-winning Vietnam War photo illustrating the terror of war wascensored for nudity by Mark Zukerberg’s minions. Facebook deigned to restore the image to … read more
AJBlog: Straight|UpPublished 2016-09-10
Gard Foundation Symposium–Our Communities: Day 3 Today was the final day of The Robert E. Gard Foundation’s Our Communities: A Symposium on the Arts at The Johnson Foundation at Wingspread’s conference center. New Ideas for a World in Transition: A Next … read more
AJBlog: Engaging MattersPublished 2016-09-09
We’ll have a real good time I rarely meet a revival I don’t like.Classic plays are good for thinking: they re-reveal themselves in each new production, and choices in text and staging function as a conversation between a past … read more
AJBlog: Performance MonkeyPublished 2016-09-09