In fact, outside North America and Europe, 78s were the standard record format well into the 1960s, and they hold an enormous variety of music from the days before globalization. A new antho…
"At the darkest hour, with concert halls shuttered and musicians facing visa hell, Rattle's defection is being regarded, rightly or wrongly, as a loss of faith. I have heard the word 'betray…
Garry Stewart took the helm at Adelaide-based ADT " which is the country's oldest contemporary dance company " in 1999 and choreographed 20 original works there. " InDaily (Adelaide)
With the country splintered, its institutions shaken, a book documenting a classic American play affirming shared life experiences and bedrock values seems especially timely. Published Jan.�…
"The danger of Trump using a presidential library to burnish his image is far more serious, with the ex-president and his surrogates still promoting the idea that his electoral loss was some…
At its best, music theory creates simplified models that help us understand how compositions are conceived and constructed while leaving space for the mystery of artistic intervention. At it…
She will be reciting at the Super Bowl pre-show on Feb. 7, before the Kansas City Chiefs play the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. " NPR
The study surveyed 104 organizations, including 91 in the United States and 13 in Canada, from Dec. 12, 2020 through Jan. 12, 2021. The study found that, among U.S. organizations, companies …
There's a village meeting each year to decide the theme. Village officials make a simple computer mockup and then ask art teachers to make more detailed drawings. Next, color-coded markers a…
Asheville Symphony seeks next Executive Director
Lee, the son of immigrants from China, "was determined both to restore the contributions of Asian-Americans to the historical record and to document their present-day lives and struggles, es…
You won't find them on the usual streaming suspects. " The Verge
The Broadway League and the American Theater Wing: "One, the much-delayed awards will be scheduled 'in coordination with the reopening of Broadway.' And two, the voting will take place from …
Bernadine Evaristo, author of 2019's Booker prizewinning Girl, Woman, Other, is launching, or relaunching, a series of Black British novels that didn't quite make it into the British canon. …
The SETI Institute is ready to take music to Mars, or wherever. While it's a listening project, it's also now a beaming project. A founding astrophysicist and a musician "have devised the 'E…
That's merely one thing that's missing right now, of course, but it is missing, and Dublin isn't going to let people forget the joys of moving their bodies alongside so many others at dance …
Wesley Morris: "Alas, she would not be playing the most daring, out-there characters. And let's face it: the great parts were always headed to someone whiter anyway. The more audacious move …
And now there's a tug of war about the future of the internet " and the future of any kind of privacy. " Wired
Writer, studio musician at Sugar Hill Records, and singer, Bootee couldn't take the upbeat party aims of early hip-hop. So he wrote "The Message" about the serious, gritty life of his hometo…
Mark Swed thinks so: Bernstein "devoted four years to the musical. He wrote more music for it than for any other theater work. The show had a $900,000 sponsorship from Coca-Cola. It was bill…
Penman's best-selling, lengthy books about medieval England and Wales were stuffed with research " and drama. But "such was her commitment to the factual record that she kept a running list�…
A $2 million donation means that musicians and staff have salaries and health care through June, despite the fact that there's no revenue coming in from concerts. " Nine News (Denver)
She died in what her team said was a "terrible accident" in Athens while celebrating the full moon. "SOPHIE was a trailblazer in almost every respect. The Scottish-born, L.A.-based producer …
The word for pandemic is absolutely Greek, but nearly everything else the Greeks discuss about COVID-19 is English " and a leading linguist is worried. "Far too many [English terms] are ente…
When Nawapan Kriangsak inherited the priceless art collection of her father, scholar and collector Douglas Latchford, she already had a plan in motion to return his art to Cambodia, from whe…