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Mrs. Sokoloff taught at Curtis longer than any other professor in the conservatory's history, and more than anyone else, she was its gracious " if sharp-witted " personification. " Philadelp…
"Even if you had a hundred people in a space that's supposed to be 200, are they really going to keep six feet apart? A lot of people expect a nightclub to feel a certain way and have a cert…
Located in the heart of downtown Durham, the Carolina Theatre has been a center of the city's arts and cultural life for nearly a century.
"What they have is the bare minimum, the scaffold of an education department," says Shellyne Rodriguez, an educator whose contract was cancelled in March. "If you don't have educators, you d…
Most dispassionate observers now recognize that return-to-campus plans are, as Juliana Gray wrote in McSweeney's, cooked up by your university's "Vice President for Magical Thinking." " Insi…
Words are, in the end, only words. But writers, and prize committees, must know more than anyone that words have power. Words have consequences, and we act accordingly. " Irish Times
Nielsen Music/MRC Data says activity on streaming platforms such as Spotify and Apple Music began 2020 up 20.4% over 2019 " then ratcheted back to an increase of only 13.8% between March 13 …
Fisk joined the Richmond Symphony in 2002 from the Ulster Orchestra in Northern Ireland and has led the orchestra through many ups and downs, including the closure of the Carpenter Theatre t…
Comedians are desperate to get back on stage, said Kai Humphries, and to hear the roar of laughter rather than car horns. He found that he had slipped into a familiar rhythm on stage, timing…
The more dark, wiggy videos you consume, the darker and wiggier your playlist becomes, until you inhabit a so-called "filter bubble," while Google makes ad money off of your addictive radica…
That five of the six new hires are people of color, and that all are women, is in line with Sandra Jackson-Dumont's vision as the museum's self-described "chief diversity officer." " Los Ang…
All clear cases of awe have the following two components: an experience of vastness, and a need for cognitive accommodation of this vastness. You might feel awe for things that are physicall…
He currently serves as the CEO of New York's Caramoor Center for Music and Arts, a position he has held since 2012. He also served as executive director of the Ojai Music Festival, and accor…
The test events will feature the London Symphony Orchestra at St Luke's Church, as well as performances at the London Palladium and Butlin's holiday parks. "This is an important milestone fo…
Did he become a great conductor? No, he became a valuable conductor, championing the work of Canadian composers more than any of his contemporaries did. He knew the composers on a personal l…
When I perform comedy, I can still hear echoes of my influences coming through. Jack Benny, certainly, Mike Nichols and Elaine May, Lenny Bruce, Steve Allen, Carl Reiner, too. But it is not …
The bad news, according to the report: Only 72,000 subscribers stuck around and decided to pay $5 a month (or $8 without ads) for the service. That conversion rate, around 8%, does not bode …
"You can criticize what people say, you can argue about platforms. But it seems like some of the excesses of the moment are leading people to be silenced in a new way." " The New York Times
"Instagram was one of the first apps to fully exploit our relationship with our phones, compelling us to experience life through a camera for the reward of digital validation." " New Statesm…
The Brooklyn Bridge, for example, was originally built for trains, bicycles and pedestrians. More than 400,000 people a day on average once crossed it. Then it was "modernized" for cars. Now…
The letter"whose endorsers included everyone from Noam Chomsky to Gloria Steinem to Margaret Atwood to Salman Rushdie to Wynton Marsalis"applauded "powerful protests for racial and social ju…
"This is theater of the mind, you know?" Wild says. "We do so much vocal work in the program, so much text work, so much breaking down a scene " What is this character doing? What do they wa…
"We were going to do two sittings each night and the shows sold out straight away. We knew there was an appetite among audiences to come back. But when restrictions weren't relaxed, we had t…
Up to this point, music was primarily a shared experience: families huddling around furniture-sized Philcos; teens blasting tunes from automobiles or sock-hopping to transistor radios; the b…
"The restriction of debate, whether by a repressive government or an intolerant society, invariably hurts those who lack power and makes everyone less capable of democratic participation. Th…
