“A new symphonic experience showcases an original documentary covering 800 years of feminist history and the development of women’s civil and human rights in 80 minutes. Orchestra Moderne NYC presents Women Warriors: The Voices of Change, a dynamic, multimedia social justice concert that premiers at Lincoln Center on Friday, September 20, 2019. While concertgoers watch the powerful footage, they will hear live music written by eight female Hollywood composers performed on stage.” – AfriClassical
PBS To Live-Stream Over Internet For First Time
While PBS has offered on-demand streaming for a number of years, it will stream programming live on YouTube TV. “Based on their markets, 333 member stations will be available to users.” – Ars Technica
The Very First Motion Pictures Were Grainy And Too Fast, Right? Not At All
“Rather, viewed in their original form on large screens and prior to decades of degradation, these movies were vivid and realistic. In particular, early 68mm film, which was less practical than 35mm film and thus used less frequently, delivered startlingly lifelike impressions of distant realities to early moviegoers.” (video) – Aeon
What Happens When What You See Gets In The Way Of What You Know?
Most philosophers nowadays think that knowledge is fallible. In other words, they think that you can know something without its being certain for you. – 3 Quarks Daily
Netflix, Losing US Subscribers, Places A Big Bet On India
As the streaming giant reported the loss of 126,000 American customers, it “also announced a cheaper, mobile-only subscription plan in India. At 199 rupees ($2.80; £2.20) a month, it’s priced to make inroads into a country, which chief executive Reed Hastings has half-seriously suggested could be the source of Netflix’s ‘next 100 million’ subscribers.” – BBC
‘What the Constitution Means to Me’ Is Setting a Theatrical Precedent
“While it was nominated for two Tony Awards, it did not win any of them. It has no stars, a tiny cast, and no special effects, and everyone both onstage and backstage are Broadway newbies. And yet it has attracted a staggering amount of celebrities to its audience … And it’s written by a woman, features a mostly female cast, and has women as its lead producers, in an industry in which women are still severely underrepresented on every level of production.” – American Theatre
Power play: reclaiming the story of Canada’s missing and murdered
“Tara Beagan’s drama about a Blackfoot woman seeking to avenge her sister’s murder confronts the violence suffered by Indigenous women from the standpoint of those affected.” – The Guardian
Architect Proposes Translucent Temporary Space For Notre Dame During Rebuilding
“Pavillon Notre-Dame would replicate the exact dimensions of the nave of the cathedral so that it feels familiar. The roof would be made from Ethylene Tetra Fluoro Ethylene (EFTEC) cushions, a lightweight plastic membrane, and the walls from translucent polycarbonate panels.” – dezeen
The Invention Of Money Changed Everything About How The World Works
“Paper money, backed by the authority of the state, was an astonishing innovation, one that reshaped the world. That’s hard to remember: we grow used to the ways we pay our bills and are paid for our work, to the dance of numbers in our bank balances and credit-card statements. It’s only at moments when the system buckles that we start to wonder why these things are worth what they seem to be worth.” – The New Yorker
PT Barnum, The Great Con (And He Considered Running For President)
Barnum’s peculiar gift lay in his relationship to his audience. Better than anyone who’d come before, the Prince of Humbugs understood that the public was willing—even eager—to be conned, provided there was enough entertainment to be had in the process. – The New Yorker
What If Time Really Doesn’t Have A Direction?
We think that the way things are now depends on how they were in the past, but not on how they are in the future; we think of the laws of nature as telling the Universe how to evolve from earlier to later, and not later to earlier. And so on. – Aeon
Is It Time For Marin Alsop To Speak Up In Baltimore Symphony Plight? (And Would It Help?)
True, music directors don’t usually get involved in labor disputes. Also true is the severity of the money crisis, and the unlikeliness of Alsop being able to help with that. But Baltimore music critic Tim Smith writes that if anyone has the stature and the right to say enough is enough, it’s Alsop. – Tim Smith
How Far Ahead Of Her Time Was Ida Lupino? This Far
“In between Not Wanted [about unwed mothers] and Outrage [about a rape victim], Lupino had directed Never Fear, a movie depicting people surviving polio, which Lupino had contracted herself in the 1930s. If I told you even one of those movies had been made in the late ’40s or early ’50s you would probably be doubtful. That one woman was instrumental in bringing all three into existence is an astounding achievement.” – 3 Quarks Daily
At The Museum of The Future, Some Experiments In Virtual Reality
As you can tell, the experience isn’t easy to describe. Afterwards, as I walked back out into the bright, muggy New York evening, I felt equal parts amused, excited and unsettled, and I knew this wasn’t like any other VR I’d seen. – TechCrunch
Emmett Till Memorial In Mississippi Keeps Getting Shot At, So It’s Being Replaced With A Bulletproof Version
“This will be the fourth sign that the [Emmett Till Memorial Commission] has placed at the site. The first was swiped in 2008, and no arrests were ever made in connection with the incident. The replacement marker was vandalized with bullets, more than 100 rounds over the course of several years. Just 35 days after it was erected in 2018, the third sign was shot at as well.” – Smithsonian Magazine
Kraftwerk Wins Two-Decade-Long Copyright Case In EU Court
“The long-running case — which carries potentially large ramifications around the use and licensing of samples in the wider music industry — revolves around a two-second drum sequence from Kraftwerk’s 1977 song ‘Metall auf Metall’ (Metal on Metal), which producers Moses Pelham and Martin Haas sampled and looped in Sabrina Setlur’s 1997 song ‘Nur Mir.'” – Billboard
New York City To Arts Orgs: We Both Know You Have A Diversity Problem — How Are You Going To Fix It?
“After years spent measuring and analyzing the problem, the city is now asking organizations to work on fixing it. In recent months, 33 cultural institutions on city-owned property submitted plans to boost diversity and inclusion among their staff and visitors; if they failed to do so, the city warned, their funding could be cut.” – The New York Times
Verbier Festival Founders Launch New Festival In Georgia (The Republic)
Avi Shoshani and Martin Engstroem are the joint artistic directors of the Tsinandali Festival, whose house ensemble, conducted by Gianandrea Noseda (music director of the National Symphony in D.C.), is an orchestra of specially chosen young musicians from the three republics of the Caucasus (Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan) as well as Turkey, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine. – Bachtrack
Re-Thinking Aaron Copland
How did Aaron Copland’s film music attempt to counteract the Hollywood influence of Erich Korngold? To what degree did he draw inspiration from the master Mexican populist Silvestre Revueltas? How did the Red Scare change Copland’s style in the 1950s? – Joe Horowitz
30th anniversary treats at Garsington Opera
I’ve been to every single 2019 production at the stupendous opera house facing the Getty family’s cricket ground at Wormsley. The Garsington/Wormsley experience is thrilling, partly because, in addition to the high musical standards, there’s a remarkable level of service. – Paul Levy
After Forty Years Of Marketing Broadway, A Legend Retires
Sam Rudy, an actual farm boy who moved to the city and made good, has created publicity for everything from the deeply bad musical Shogun to Edward Albee’s The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?, and he’s going out on Hamilton, which he says is in a class of its own. – The New York Times
The UK Is Having A Jazz Renaissance, Sparked By Young Fans
One DJ explains it this rather charming way: “If you’re 21 now, you can get all kinds of music much faster. You can stream it or listen to it via YouTube … My generation had to buy the records and that took a while to get to a certain point … so inevitably people get to jazz as it is the holy grail when it comes to music.” – The Guardian (UK)