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"Something that has increasingly bothered me over 20 years as a practitioner and educator, is that "music education" as we conceive it (right down to state/county/national syllabi/standards)…
Historic England has released a new list of 500 additions to the built environments it accords "enhanced" or new status. Why does anyone care? "They grow not only ever more surprising " our …
Music critics may resist the idea, but "what if the genre killers are right? What if it doesn't matter whether they're right, but it's happening anyway? Start to finish, 2019 gave us p…
It's a tough selling environment for fiction; the numbers are bleak and falling fast. But Where Late the Crawdads Sang has been going, and going, and going, and going … "Crawdads has sold …
The author of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit and 10 other novels, along with much nonfiction and several children's books as well, Winterson says, "People always say 'let's get the technolog…
Simon "was often called a pianist's pianist " greatly admired by musicians and critics if not strictly a household name. Known in particular for his interpretations of the Romantic literatur…
Perhaps that won't improve its dismal showing at the box office this weekend, but at least it might improve the moviegoing experience. Director Tom Hooper "has been upfront about the fact th…
Perhaps many of us " at least those who depend on Amazon and the wide world of other online shopping options " have forgotten, but department stores still exist. At least, a few do. "To stud…
Despite rather lackluster reviews, the film is on track to take in almost $400 million internationally. And wow, does that benefit Disney. "Disney said that it had booked The Rise of Skywalk…
And, famously, short story writers. Why? "It's a chance to bring together a wide cast of characters at a time when the sense of occasion allows them and the novelist to take the long view of…
Twenty-two years after the groundbreaking production had its U.S. debut in Los Angeles, it returned " "as gloriously relevant as ever." And here is a photo gallery of what happens backstage,…
The movie was supposed to be about her, or be "her movie," according to The Rise of Skywalker director J.J. Abrams. But she died long before this one started shooting. The way it worked was …
Roger Cohen misses the world of the landline. "In the landline world there was down time. You left the house, you looked around, you saw people, you daydreamed, you got lost, you found…
It's for Netflix, y'all. For The Two Popes. " Los Angeles Times
In my skeptical post last month about Cree artist Kent Monkman's plans for the Metropolitan Museum's Great Hall, I recklessly ventured some premature commentary. This "squeamish critic" has …
Though the list is all fiction, overall the trend is moving towards nonfiction on the best-seller lists. According to Lee Graham of the NPD Group, "In 2010, nearly 80 percent of the top-sell…
"Theater people resent "Cats" not just because it made Broadway uncool until "Hamilton" finally rescued it from the pop cultural stocks. What really infuriates buffs is that "Cats" ushered i…
Welcome work by the Tyndall Centre for Climate Research examines all the areas of impact touring has on the environment and recognises that the issue is complex: it cannot be solved by plant…
The academy had given its students "insufficient medical and therapeutic care," a commission set up by the Austrian government, said in a report issued on Tuesday. There also seemed to be "n…
Broadway's supply and demand for theatres is a far cry from the mid 1980s, when commercial theatre in New York in general seemed like it might be on the ropes. Hamilton, Moulin Rouge!, The L…
"[Researchers from UNC-Chapel Hill] report how they carried out an analysis of 24 emotional concepts, such as anger, love and pride, across 2,474 languages. The study also included more than…
The Newseum was "prey to the economic and cultural forces that have bedeviled institutions as diverse as symphony orchestras and the electronic media. It had to compete for audience and achi…
Research released by Working Artists and the Greater Economy (W.A.G.E.) "shows an inverse relationship between institution size (based on operating budget) and the amount spent on artist fee…
"In traditional video games, labor and capitalism have been depicted in near-frictionless harmony. Take SimCity and Civilization's dogmatic views of economic progress popular during the boom…
"[She] is best known for having founded, in 1968, an electronic music studio at Hunter College in New York, where she taught composition and theory from 1966 until 1989. … [She] created a …
