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Voisey allows users to choose from a library of beats from around the world, submitted to the Voisey website by producers, and sing their own lyrics and melodies over them. Their vocals are …
"Mr. Tarr left his mark on every aspect of the trumpet world. As a player he set new standards of lyricism on an instrument long associated with military bravado. As a scholar he hunted for …
"A fiery champion of social justice and sustainability in architecture and urban planning, [he] emerged as one of his profession's most incisive public intellectuals over a multifaceted care…
ACE was faced with an impossible choice. Unlike the German government, which has announced a €50 billion package of support for artists and the cultural sector, recognising that it is …
"Hours after municipal authorities in Shanghai gave more than 200 cinemas the greenlight to re-open Saturday, national-level Chinese authorities on Friday ordered all theaters throughout the…
With libraries and bookstores closed across the U.S., and with teachers searching for materials to use for remote teaching, the Internet Archive decided to lift all restrictions on access to…
She brought to Miami (and, later, Fort Lauderdale) such artists as Vladimir Horowitz, Mstislav Rostropovich, Itzhak Perlman, Luciano Pavarotti, Marilyn Horne, Beverly Sills, Dmitri Hvorostov…
The city's largest theatre nonprofit, which operates the Mark Taper Forum, Ahmanson Theatre, and Kirk Douglas Theatre, will maintain health insurance for its workers but send half of them ho…
"The Aldeburgh Festival is the latest cultural casualty of the coronavirus pandemic. The classical music event founded in 1948 by Benjamin Britten will not go ahead, it has been announced." …
With its building closed indefinitely due to the coronavirus pandemic, the museum's administration let go most of its employees with a promise to pay them only through April 4; that promise …
From 2017:
The same friend asked me the other day to sum up my life. "I had a mother who believed I could do anything I wanted," I replied. "Now I have a wife who believes the same thing. Th…
"If you evade suffering you also evade the chance of joy. Pleasure you may get, or pleasures, but you will not be fulfilled."
Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
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I can't believe I'm posting this message, but…after looking at this morning's stats, Mrs. T's doctors now believe … " Terry Teachout
Asked about his intriguing new album, west coast trumpeter Dick Titterington talked about the project's genesis during a Christmas party. " Doug Ramsey
Among the social impacts of the coronavirus is its swift dismantling of the cult of celebrity. The famous are ambassadors of the meritocracy; they represent the American pursuit of wealth th…
Merely stabilizing the economy, or preventing the absolute worst of all possible worlds, will not be enough. In a short few weeks, the COVID-19 recession has made painfully clear our profoun…
In a press statement, a spokesperson for the opera singer reported that he is in stable condition but will remain the hospital for "as long as the doctors find it necessary until a hoped-for…
For many who wrote for the magazine, attended its monthly discussion lunches or simply subscribed, involvement with Encounter was to take sides in an historic struggle in which the Anglo-Ame…
If you haven't seen my Facebook posting about Mrs. T, here it is:
Dear Friends: I can't believe I'm posting this message, but…after looking at this morning's stats, Mrs. T's doctors now be…
At least, once the show has caught up to where people are. "The BBC has revealed that its long-running BBC Radio 4 soap The Archers will have its first coronavirus-related storyline in early…
The Observer's theatre critic, for instance: "'I am a big believer in walking as writing (or vice versa),' she says. 'If I get stuck, I charge around the square and often find a sentence sli…
Carmen Esposito's Save Yourself was meant to be released on a book tour that saw the comedian and podcaster performing in cities across the country. But then, COVID-19. In the book, she writ…
People in Britain " perhaps spurred on by Brexit fears, or perhaps it's just a cyclical thing, this "return to traditional craft" " are learning everything from vase painting to making spinn…
But it's a complex consideration: "'You do feel guilty about putting these anxieties in people's minds,' said Bruce Miller, the creator and showrunner of Hulu's adaptation of The Handmaid…
The ballet says that, "We also recognized that while many of our dancers have made their homes here in Sarasota, and others would be able to easily return to their home states/countries, man…
