Tag: 03.09.21
What Musicians Really Make — A Database
The Real Music Wages Database is an anonymous, crowd-sourced list of real wage transactions reported by musicians. We track how much someone has been...
The Problem With The UK’s Approach To Controversial Statues
At first glance, the notion that controversial statues should be explained and contextualised seems like a step in the right direction. However, for many...
The Music School Flourishing On Remote Easter Island
With donated land, instruments and crowd-sourced funding, Mahani Teave, along with her partner Enrique Icka, a construction engineer, broke ground on their Toki School...
The Oprah Effect: What Being Interviewed By Winfrey Can Do For You
" means being ready to expose yourself to her satisfaction, in exchange for having one of the world's great empaths help you reshape your...
Using Lockdown Boredom For Good
"During this period of soul-crushing boredom, it would be valuable to pay more attention to what people are feeling and thinking, rather than trying...
There’s Nothing New About Cutting Offensive Stuff From Children’s Books, So Calm Down About...
For instance, ugly ethnic stereotypes from the 1920s and '30s were removed from the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew books all the way back...
What’s A Conductor Good For? Let A Veteran Orchestral Player Tell You.
"A great maestro, through the sheer force of his or her spiritual presence, can inspire musicians to play not with our hands but with...
Charleston Symphony Eliminates Music Director Position
To cope with the huge income shortfall caused by the pandemic, South Carolina's largest performing arts organization will let go of conductor Ken Lam...
TV Newsman Roger Mudd, 93
" Peabody Award-winning journalist who spent a quarter-century at CBS News and NBC News and came close to becoming a No. 1 network anchorman...
Paris Biennale Is Permanently Discontinued
"The Paris Biennale, founded in 1962 and once the world's most prestigious art fair, is no more. After years of confusion, scandal and strife,...
Jair Bolsonaro Blocks Arts Funding To Brazilian States With Pandemic Lockdowns
"A national culture secretary published the decree last week making clear that proposals under the Rouanet Law, which provides funding to cultural projects on...
Norton Juster, Author Of ‘The Phantom Tollbooth’, Dead At 91
"A budding architect with a self-confessed tendency to procrastinate, Mr. Juster … stumbled into literature much as his most famous hero, Milo, stumbles into...
Disney+ Closes In On 100 Million Subscribers
The subscriber count is up from the 94.9 million accounts Disney reported last month for the quarter that ended in January. And the surge...
DeepFake Technology That Animates Images (Really Creepy)
The AI family history app MyHeritage allows users to animate photographs from the past. Run a document through the app and it will seemingly...