Tag: 02.13.21
Was Some Of Ravel’s Best Music The Product Of A Brain Disorder?
“Think of it like traffic. There’s the language road, there’s the music road, there’s the seeing road, there’s the images road. Language is like...
Liz Lerman Talks Movement & Discord
The choreographer, performer, writer, educator, and speaker shares her creative process and the connection between movement and discord. - Aaron Dworkin
The Latest Dance Craze Sweeping The World
Jerusalema is a song by South African house musician Master KG. Friends in Angola filmed themselves dancing to the hit - the moves have...
The Five-Second Error In The “Nutcracker” Score
He suspects the engraver made the mistake while copying the score, and it didn’t get caught during proofreading. If Tchaikovsky noticed, there’s no indication...
Rauschenberg, Twombly And Johns – A Great Art Love Triangle
Rauschenberg and Twombly were both southerners. Rauschenberg, who was quarter Cherokee, came from Texas, Twombly from the heart of the old Confederacy in Lexington,...
The Chamber Music Series Getting Ten Times Its Usual Audience (And Making Money)
There’s one metric, however, that stands out as a marker of success. Philadelphia Chamber Music Society’s virtual concerts are technically free of charge, but...
Rupert Neve, ‘The Man Who Made The Recording Console,’ 94
The Grammy-winning architect of modern music "is best known for designing and producing microphone preamplifiers, equalizers, compressors and mixing consoles that are sought after...
How Can ‘Our Town’ Still Feel Utterly Contemporary, 80 Years After Its Opening?
Howard Sherman, author of a new book about the play: "It's a play that people think they know. People want to paint it as...
So, No Spring Openings For Broadway, But You Can Find Some Gems, Safely, Online
All of this is true: "An effort to keep the industry alive has major stars taking to the virtual stage and much-lauded past productions...
Disneyland Artist And ‘Master Illustrator’ Charles Boyer, 86
Boyer signed on with Disney as a sketch artist in 1960 - and never left. "Boyer was made a Disney Legend in 2005, the...
What The New Movie ‘Judas And The Black Messiah’ Reveals About The United States’...
In short, and in no surprise to anyone who has studied the history of the U.S., or indeed lived that history: "Judas and the...
When Science Doesn’t Cut It
Director Iram Parveen Bilal (I'll Meet You There) explains: "I'm the daughter of a physicist mother and a chemistry professor father. ... We were...
Missing ‘Bridgerton’? Turn To TikTok
First there was Ratatouille: The Musical or Ratatousical, which raised more than a million dollars for actors, with the no doubt bemused blessing of...
Legendary Casting Director Lynn Stalmaster Has Died At 93
You know his work even if you don't know of the man. "Stalmaster’s accomplishments are too numerous to list exhaustively, but among them: He...
The Modernist Poet Who Understood The Precarity Of Civilization
Aime Césaire, whose Discourse on Colonialism remains (all too) relevant - and who protested to some effect in 2005after French President Jacques Chirac instructed...
The Secret Life Of Museums During Lockdowns In The UK
Each lockdown has meant something different for the staff, especially of science and natural history museums. For instance, James Maclaine, senior fish curator at...
The Indianapolis Museum Of Art’s Job Ad Asked Director To Maintain A ‘Traditional, Core,...
The explanation of the current CEO and director of the Indianapolis Museum didn't, perhaps, help. Charles L. Venable said that "the decision to use...
How A Few Women, In Just A Couple Of Years, Changed The Course Of...
Women Artists for Revolution (W.A.R., of course) weren't shy about their rallying cry in 1969. "The group ignited a robust movement against gender discrimination...