“It was something that players were talking about during warmups or while they were dressing in the locker room rather than focusing on the actual hockey game that we were getting ready to play. Part of the issue was just the inability to put it aside. I did even on occasion hear the odd reference on the bench in the middle of the game.” – CBC
Culture Shift: How Women Conductors Are Changing Orchestras
In a world that expects hierarchy and venerates individual genius, some musicians prefer to see their conductor not as a collaborator, but as a dominant, almost dictatorial leader. Many male conductors have been not only famous for their musical prowess, but infamous for their unflinching ways and bad tempers. A sexist double standard makes such shows of “temperament” taboo for women. – New York Review of Books
On the Horizon
Earlier this month I highlighted three factors fueling a growing international interest in community engagement and the arts: economics, demographics, and funders’ demands for much broader community impact than is typical with Eurocentric arts organizations. It seems like a little expansion on these existential threats to the status quo might be in order. – Doug Borwick
Andy Martin Flies High
The jazz bands of the United States military services have long histories of impressive achievement. Let’s see and hear the veteran Los Angeles trombonist Andy Martin with the US Air Force’s Airmen Of Note in a 2012 concert in Washington, DC. – Doug Ramsey
How A Medieval Costume Show Became 2018’s Most-Attended Exhibition Worldwide
The show appealed to such a wide audience “because it put fashion in the context of the Medieval sculpture hall, and juxtaposed art with architecture to create an experience that was like a pilgrimage”, says Andrew Bolton, the curator in charge of the Costume Institute, who organised the show. “It was very much an experiential moment for people, with the fashion and art mixing together in a procession-like way.” – The Art Newspaper
Stolen Picasso, Missing For 20 Years, Literally Brought To Art Detective’s Doorstep
Arthur Brand, a/k/a “the Indiana Jones of the art world,” has recovered Buste de femme (Dora Maar), a 1938 painting which was stolen from a Saudi sheikh’s yacht on the French Riviera in 1999. After Brand had spent four years following leads on the painting’s whereabouts through the Dutch criminal underworld, a pair of intermediaries brought the canvas to his Amsterdam home. – Yahoo! (AFP)