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Tuesday, February 16, 2021

Everyone’s Pivoting – Here’s What’s Relevant To Classical Music by Artsjournal

According to Eric Ries, author of The Lean Startup, there are ten different kinds of pivots. At least six out of them are relevant to classical music. – Ludwig Van

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Claim: The COVID Shutdown Has Revolutionized And Democratized Theatre by Artsjournal

“The result is a worldwide swarm of approaches that have profoundly opened up the possibilities of the form, most likely for good. The word ‘theatre’ stands at the starting post, all b…

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Composer Gets No Play Until She Puts Her Music Out Under Male Pseudonym by Artsjournal

A change of name it all started to click. After adopting the pseudonym Arthur Parker her pieces were getting the airplay she had struggled to achieve as a woman. – The Times (UK)

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Finally: More Money, Resources For Black Theatre? by Artsjournal

In the last seven months, there has been a groundswell of support for Black-owned businesses and nonprofits that are focused on specifically and directly helping the Black community. People …

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Why We Have Difficulty Trusting Science by Artsjournal

Precisely the same methods, and precisely the same leaps of brilliance and faith that led in some cases to science that has withstood the test of centuries, led also to results that were rap…

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The Cultural Significance Of Magazines by Artsjournal

“The best way to think about magazines is as the analog Internet—they’d foster communities of people, just like on social networks,” Steven Lomazow, a seventy-three-year-old New Jers…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:54PM
Monday, February 15, 2021

How A Young Pianist Learns About The Liszt Sonata From Historic Recordings by Artsjournal

“I almost feel like you should know the notable recordings of a work like this,” Benjamin Grosvenor said of the sonata in a recent interview. “More than anything, it helps you understa…

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The Line Between Audiobook And Theatrical Play by Artsjournal

“When different narrators take on chapters devoted to different characters’ points of view, the listener’s engagement with the book can be heightened. On the other hand, when narrators…

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Was Some Of Ravel’s Best Music The Product Of A Brain Disorder? by Artsjournal

“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 a superhighway; it makes the other …

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The Chamber Music Series Getting Ten Times Its Usual Audience (And Making Money) by Artsjournal

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 the pay-as-you-wish donatio…

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The Agents Behind Hollywood’s Book-To-Movie Boom by Artsjournal

“The entire structure of the traditional book-to-film deal has changed. Our authors are now at the cutting edge of those deals, in the selling of their work and as producers.” – Los An…

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Rauschenberg, Twombly And Johns – A Great Art Love Triangle by Artsjournal

Rauschenberg and Twombly were both southerners. Rauschenberg, who was quarter Cherokee, came from Texas, Twombly from the heart of the old Confederacy in Lexington, Virginia. The passion of …

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The Latest Dance Craze Sweeping The World by Artsjournal

Jerusalema is a song by South African house musician Master KG. Friends in Angola filmed themselves dancing to the hit – the moves have since been recreated the world over. From health wor…

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The Five-Second Error In The “Nutcracker” Score by Artsjournal

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 of it in his correspondence…

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Are American Progressive Ideas A Threat To France’s Identity? by Artsjournal

French politicians, high-profile intellectuals and journalists are warning that progressive American ideas — specifically on race, gender, post-colonialism — are undermining their societ…

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The Problem With Museums by Artsjournal

“If the postmodernism of the 1980s considered the museum to be in crisis and contemplated its “ruins,” today many see these same institutions as frustratingly intact, as bulwarks again…

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Friday, February 12, 2021

Historic Weyerhaeuser Corporate Campus, Under Threat Of Development by Artsjournal

The site, which the City of Federal Way annexed in 1994, has been lauded over the years for the pioneering way it intertwines building and landscape. Today, it is caught up in controversy ov…

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Zoom – It’s A Song Lyric, It’s A Facilitator Of Romance… by Artsjournal

As a nonsense word perfect for a doo-wop song. It’s a video app that connects people and (sometimes) facilitates romance. – WBUR

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Do We Have The Will To Stop Invention Of A Doomsday Device? by Artsjournal

What we haven’t pulled out yet is a black ball: a technology that invariably destroys the civilisation that invents it. That’s not because we’ve been particularly careful or wise when …

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Needed: A Philosophical Means Of Regarding Technology by Artsjournal

We live in a technopoly, a society in which powerful technologies come to dominate the people they are supposed to serve, and reshape us in their image. These technologies, therefore, might …

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Getting Behind The Real Tom Stoppard by Artsjournal

Sir Tom occasionally shades into Saint Tom, thanks to a notably ample collection of friends who remark on his generosity and kindness. He remembers birthdays, he lends money when others are …

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Pennsylvania Governor Proposes Zeroing Out Funds For Public TV by Artsjournal

The state has issued $750,000 to seven stations annually since 2019. The funding, which is divided evenly among the stations, supports technology needs and operating expenses. It also covers…

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Dramatic Stone Henge Discovery In Wales Suggests Irish History by Artsjournal

Its diameter of 110m is identical to the ditch that encloses Stonehenge, and it is aligned on the midsummer solstice sunrise, just like the Wiltshire monument. A series of buried stone hole…

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A Norwegian Book Festival Becomes 12 Global Festivals by Artsjournal

“One of the things I wasn’t thinking about, but which is very obvious to me now, is the great value of having each festival stage exactly what they would like to present. This has brough…

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Why Some Are Inclined To Be Seduced By Conspiracy Theories by Artsjournal

In the face of complicated events, bewildering new technologies, and sometimes contradictory information, the explanatory power of some occult yet totalizing narrative easily overmasters mor…

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At Last Minute, Trump Made The Arts Commission Overseeing Capitol All-Male, All-White by Artsjournal

“After Donald Trump made a flurry of hasty, last-minute appointments to the board that oversees the design of much of what is built in the capital, the CFA is once again all White and all …

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Seattle Chamber Music Society – Executive Director by Artsjournal

Seattle Chamber Music Society (SCMS) presents outstanding chamber music in the Pacific Northwest with festivals in January and July and...

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Thursday, February 11, 2021

Criticism As Context by Artsjournal

Understanding postcritique begins with understanding what has been the dominant mode of interpretation in literary studies for many decades: critique. Critique involves giving an account of …

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How The San Francisco Symphony Has Rebranded by Artsjournal

The modern approach plays out in its new look, which patrons will see on everything from posters outside the box office to tickets to the website and social media. The static typeface of yes…

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#Queertheballet Explained by Artsjournal

“Without visible exemplars, many queer women and non-binary people question their own place within the art form. “Growing up, I felt like I was the only one,” says Kiara DeNae Felder, …

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Why Artificial Intelligence Will Never Write Compelling Novels by Artsjournal

If computers could do literature, they could invent like Wells and Homer, taking over from sci-fi authors to engineer the next utopia-dystopia. And right now, you probably suspect that compu…

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