“Consider hypothetically that a philanthropist wants to create a music education library in every country of the world that just has the contents printed out of what is on IMSLP. Billions and billions of pieces of paper would be necessary, and transport mechanisms, and duplicates, etc. But make it PDF music, and in fact what exists right this moment is a situation where every spot on the globe that has even a moderate internet connection has exactly this library, without one piece of paper being printed.”
How Canada’s New Copyright Law Is Ruining Educational Publishing
“Balancing users’ rights with those of creators is always a tricky business and when the previous Conservative government updated the copyright law in 2012, publishers and writers warned that it had made far too large and vague an exemption for educational purposes, considering that digital copying in universities and photocopying in schools is standard practice and was licensed to the education sector by publishers. At the time, provincial education ministries promised they would only copy what was fair, but defining fair has proved highly contentious.”
The New York Times Writes William Shakespeare’s Obituary
“‘To be or not to be,’ said Hamlet, prince of Denmark, ‘that is the question.’ Yesterday, Hamlet’s creator was; today, he is not. Of that there is no question. The poet, playwright, actor and theatrical-company shareholder William Shakespeare (sometimes spelled Shakspeare, Shagspere, Shaxpere, Shaxberd or any number of blessed ways) died today, April 23, 1616, at home in Stratford-upon-Avon. He was, more or less, 52.”
Eurovision Expels A Country For The First Time In Its History
The European Broadcasting Union says that the country’s broadcaster has accrued more than $16 million in unpaid dues since 2007. To drive the point home, the EBU announced the decision just a few weeks before the finals of the Eurovision Song Contest.”
Tenor Makes Met Opera Debut – As Otello, No Less – With Five Minutes’ Notice
“Francesco Anile … was in the green room during the last act of Saturday’s performance of Verdi’s Otello, which was being broadcast on radio throughout the world, when he was told by a stage director that Latvian tenor Aleksandrs Antonenko was sick and unable to sing the title role in the fourth act.”
The Filmmakers Who Made ‘Lemonade’ Come To Life
“We owe homage to Beyoncé, a force of nature in the world of art and entertainment. There is no equal to her talent, marketability, and fierce innovative spirit. But we also owe some respect to the team of filmmakers — some established, some on the rise — who made Lemonade come to life.”
A New Version Of ‘Carmen,’ Inspired By Refugees
“‘Her name was Carmen,’ choreographed by Russian Andrei Kuznetsov-Vecheslov, is set in a camp ‘on the fringes of Europe.’ It will be premiered by Kolesnikova and the St Petersburg Ballet Theatre at the London Coliseum in August before taking on a world tour. Part of the proceeds from London ticket sales will go to help Oxfam’s work.”
Hunger Ruled The Day In Elizabethan England, And Shakespeare Wrote About It All Of The Time
“Cycles of endless, torrential rain repeatedly wiped out crops and drove up food prices. Both bread and ale demanded increasingly expensive wheat and barley. And some tried to make a quick shilling off the catastrophe by hoarding grain and holding it back from the open market — thus hiking up food bills even further.”
Brussels, Trying To Shake Off The Attacks, Brings The Art World In
“Art Brussels, meanwhile, packed a taut punch into its new space and welcomed a fair-record 10,000 visitors its first day, Ms. Gregos said. She demurs from calling it ‘Europe’s most cutting edge major art fair,’ (but it seems likely it is).”
Creating Dance For A Country At The Intersections Of History
“The company caught the public imagination from the outset, selling out its first two performances in a 3,000 seat venue. ‘There was a hunger for dance and we connected with people by doing our own thing. This wasn’t Swan Lake. Whether we drew on folk tales or history or calligraphy, it was all recognisably part of our audience’s lives.'”
How Timbuktu’s ‘Badass’ Librarians Beat Would-Be Book Destroyers
“Librarian Abdel Kader Haidara organized and oversaw a secret plot to smuggle 350,000 medieval manuscripts out of Timbuktu.”
Purple Before, And Now After, Prince
“Purple is a branding color, a very special color. Not many people use it.”