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• City Eliminates Funding For Libraries. Volunteers Say They’ll Keep Them Going

  18-03-2016 22:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In 2015 the Labour-run city council agreed the libraries should no longer be funded and managed by the authority as part of budget savings. Volunteers will staff the buildings, while the books and equipment remain owned by the council.”
  
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• The Buck Stopped Here: Giorgione’s enigmatic appearance at the RA, Jo Spence’s final project, a Freudian Mark Wallinger and the bizarre world of Tori Wrånes

  18-03-2016 22:00
  
  Tori Wrånes: Drastic Pants, Carl Freedman Gallery (until 2 April)In 1991-92 the British artist Jo Spence was diagnosed with leukaemia. It triggered a body of work she described as The Final Project, which occupied her for the final two years of her life. Elements from the project have now been sel ected for this poignant, harrowing and at times savagely irreverent show.
  As Spence adjusted to her approaching death and her increasing physical debilitation, she worked to express what she des
  
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• Shakespeare in action

  18-03-2016 22:00
  The gallery at Compton Verney House—just nine miles fr om Stratford-upon-Avon, wh ere Shakespeare was born—has joined forces with the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) for Shakespeare in Art: Tempests, Tyrants and Tragedy (19 March-19 June). RSC actors will bring to life scenes from some of the 70-plus paintings on show. Visitors will also get a preview of the 3D avatar of Ariel that the RSC will use in the next production of The Tempest (opens 8 November).
  
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• The Ticket Lines For “Hamilton” Have Gotten Completely Out Of Hand (And A Hotel Takes Action)

  18-03-2016 21:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  At around 6:30 Wednesday morning, hotel security from the neighboring Marriott Marquis shooed the line it had tolerated for months from its property, saying, according to fans in attendance, they were “banned.”
  
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• She Wasn’t Just The Topless Cellist: Restoring Charlotte Moorman To Her Place In The Post-War Avant-Garde

  18-03-2016 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Why are Charlotte Moorman’s contributions … so underappreciated and relatively unknown today? … Because she was a woman, because she was married, because she was naked, because she was a performing artist with a ‘repertoire’ rather than a ‘practice'” … ?
  
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• ‘The Black Leather Jacket’ at Barneys, Benefitting the LGBT Community Center and White Columns

  18-03-2016 20:46 via artnews.com
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• Moralizing Museum Art? Peter Plagens Responds To Holland Cotter

  18-03-2016 20:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “There’s not a kind of art on Earth now or in the past whose societal context doesn’t include great evils. Do we need to be told in wall text or brochures–in order to look at the art–that Victorian England was a quagmire of exploitation, that Napoleonic France was nasty, that whatever dynasty in China wasn’t exactly democratic…”
  
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• Actual Spies Tell What Is And Isn’t Realistic In ‘The Americans’

  18-03-2016 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Real spies know that world is make-believe. Still, when they’re done lurking in shadows – or typing away in their cubicles, more likely – they often come home and turn on the show … Spies recognize that the show exaggerates, but they also mostly praise the ways in which it rings true – and even the ways it doesn’t.”
  
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• Pianist’s Husband Convicted Of Her Murder On Their Second Anniversary

  18-03-2016 19:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Natalia Strelchenko, 38, “died shortly after being assaulted in her home by John Martin in August last year. … A Home Office postmortem examination found Strelchenko had died from head and neck injuries.”
  
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• Channa Horwitz and Haroon Mirza at Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles

  18-03-2016 19:33 via artnews.com
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• Venice Declared As Europe’s Most-Endangered Heritage Site

  18-03-2016 19:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Europa Nostra and the EIB Institute – following a firm recommendation from an international advisory panel of experts – decided that the Venice Lagoon in Italy should be declared the most endangered heritage site in Europe, given the paramount importance of this heritage landmark to Europe and the world, as well as the complexity and magnitude of the challenges posed.”
  
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• Cliburn Winner’s Daughters Murdered, Wife Stabbed

  18-03-2016 18:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Vadym Kholodenko stopped Thursday morning at the home where he formerly lived to pick up Nika, 5, and 1-year-old Michela, Benbrook police Cmdr. David Babcock said. The Ukrainian-born musician found his wife, Sofya Tsygankova, in an “extreme state of distress” and discovered the dead girls. The pianist then called 911, police said.”
  
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• Why Our Movie Theatres Are About To Be Awash In Animated Movies

  18-03-2016 18:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Animated films still offer the largest risk/reward equation in the movie business. It’s the most profitable movie genre, averaging a 36 per cent return over the past decade, according to analysis by SNL Kagan. Science fiction and fantasy films, with a 26 per cent profit margin, took a distant second place, while dramas and comedies barely broke even. Yet animation is the most expensive genre.”
  
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• L.A. Habitat: Diana Thater

  18-03-2016 18:35 via artnews.com
  L.A. Habitat is a weekly series that visits with 16 artists in their workspaces around the city.This week’s studio: Diana Thater; Highland Park, Los Angeles.Diana Thater shares her Highland Park studio with her husband, T. Kelly Mason, a sculptor and musician. Thater is … Read More
  
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• English National Opera Chorus Ends Labor Dispute With A Pay Cut

  18-03-2016 18:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In cash terms, chorus members have now agreed to have their pay reduced by £5,900, rather than the £10,215 original planned. They will still work on reduced seasonal contracts for just nine months of the year.”
  
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• Wikipedia – It’s All About The Tiny Edits

  18-03-2016 18:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Researchers found that even though Wikipedia editors don’t tend to change much—they typically add delete, or alter about half-a-sentence at a time—even small edits to an article prompt other people to jump in and make edits of their own. And those edits encourage even more edits. And so on.”
  
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• The Controversial Chinese Gay Erotic Novel You Can Finally Read In English

  18-03-2016 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In 1998, an anonymous writer began publishing installments of a gay erotic novel online. Perhaps the first gay novel ever published in China, it quickly became a touchstone for queer men in the country. This week, Beijing Comrades is finally coming out in the US.”
  
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• Who Owns History? (It’s Not A Simple Question)

  18-03-2016 17:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “We often hear about the problem of hidden histories, invisible and unheard because the stories of women and minorities have been written out of mainstream narratives. But identity museums are guilty of the same sin of omission, since surrendering the authority to shape museum collections to indigenous communities hinders the understanding of the very people it claims to help.”
  
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• London Design Museum’s new venue to open in November

  18-03-2016 17:15
  
  London’s Design Museum is to open on 24 November in larger premises in Kensington High Street. It will be in the former Commonwealth Institute, a dramatic 1962 modernist building. The museum’s existing site, south of the river at Shad Thames (near Tower Bridge), will close on 30 June.Converting the Kensington building has cost £83m, of which £35m has been funded by the property developers Chelsfield and Ilchester Estate, which are developing part of the site for resident
  
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• These Kids Today Don’t Know How To Practice, Says Pianist

  18-03-2016 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The great Singaporean pianist [Melvyn Tan] first made a name for himself as an expert in early music, recording music on the fortepiano. We spoke to him about how taking up the harpsichord by accident, learning how to practise and why he’d really like to meet Schubert.”
  
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• China’s finest royal cave temple opens to the public

  18-03-2016 17:00
  The Longmen Grottoes, a Unesco World Heritage Site of ancient Buddhist art in China’s Henan Province, opened its Kanjing Temple to the general public for the first time in almost 63 years at the beginning of March. Previously, only the royal temple cave's exterior was accessible to tourists. The largest of more than 2,300 caves carved into limestone cliffs, Kanjing can accommodate the most visitors.The Longmen Grottoes Institute told the online publication Thepaper.cn that it chose to ope
  
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• ‘In the Spirit of the Present Day’: The Met Gets Modern With a Major Donation of 19th-Century Painting, in 1930

  18-03-2016 16:55 via artnews.com
  Today the Metropolitan Museum of Art opens the Met Breuer, its hotly anticipated annex for modern and contemporary art. Many have seen the Met Breuer as a way of bringing the Met up to date, making it an encyclopedic museum … Read More
  
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• Joseph Wright, Justine Frischmann and posing for Paul Strand – the week in art

  18-03-2016 16:47
  
  A Grand Tour of the Midlands, Top Gear’s controversial spin around the Cenotaph and Britain’s best new architects – all in your weekly art dispatchJoseph Wright and the Lure of Italy
  The great Derby artist Joseph Wright was entranced by Italy and, like many culturally aspiring 18th-century people, he made the journey there. Wright painted fireworks in Rome, sea caves on the Mediterranean shore and no fewer than 30 depictions of Mount Vesuvius erupting. This exhibition is part o
  
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• Centre Pompidou’s stolen Picasso goes back on show after 15 years

  18-03-2016 16:43
  
  Picasso’s 1911 painting La Coiffeuse (the dressing table), which was stolen from the Centre Pompidou in 2001, will go back on view at the Paris museum on 24 March. The painting was seized by US customs in Newark, New Jersey, in December 2014, en route from Belgium to Queens, New York, when officers became suspicious that a package described as a $37 Christmas gift would be sent to a climate-controlled storage facility.La Coiffeuse—which entered the Centre Pompidou’s collection
  
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• Omer Fast: Present Continuous review – teasing takes on sex, death and trauma

  18-03-2016 16:09
  
  Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead
  This mesmerising collection of film and video work by the Israeli artist is full of dangling clues and subliminal messages, playing fast and loose with our credulity“Everything is wrong: askew, false, unfamiliar or unaligned,” writes novelist Tom McCarthy in an essay on Omer Fast, the Israeli-born, Berlin-based artist whose work is now being presented in a travelling European survey at Baltic in Gateshead. Filling two floors in a series o
  
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• Backlash Against Casting Zoe Saldana As Nina Simone Comes Out Of Slave-Era Mentality, Says Founder Of BET

  18-03-2016 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “That’s where some of this comes from, when you hear people saying that a light-skinned woman can’t play a dark-skinned woman when they’re both clearly of African descent. To say that if I’m gonna cast a movie, I’ve gotta hold a brown paper bag up to the actresses and say, ‘Oh sorry, you can’t play her.’ Who’s to decide when you’re black enough?”
  
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• It All Comes Down To The Face: Ta-Nehisi Coates On The Controversy Over Casting The Nina Simone Biopic

  18-03-2016 15:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It’s equally difficult to ignore the fact that, while it is hard for all women in Hollywood, it is particularly hard for black women, and even harder for black women who share the dark skin, broad nose and full lips of Nina Simone.”
  
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• A mind-melting 24 hours: Met brings Stockhausen's Klang to New York

  18-03-2016 15:28
  
  Met celebrates new Breuer campus with US premiere of one of the most challenging avant garde works of all time – performed in all three of its buildingsWhen you open a new performing arts facility in a city that already has a few of them, you need to make an entrance. So as Limor Tomer, the Metropolitan Museum’s general manager for concerts and lectures, began to think about the programming that could introduce the new Met Breuer, she seized on an opportunity to claim a US premiere f
  
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• Where Charges Of Cultural Appropriation Go Wrong

  18-03-2016 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  David Copelin: “The belief prevalent in some quarters that, given my background, I can’t write authentically about a character from another background, is a plain old attempt at censorship. … There is such a thing as artistic empathy. Similarly, consider the commonplace ‘It’s our story and you have no right to write it.’ I certainly have no right to write it instead of you, but I’m not asking for that and never would.”
  
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• Here Is the Exhibitor List for NADA New York 2016

  18-03-2016 15:00 via artnews.com
  The New Art Dealers Alliance has released the exhibitor list for NADA New York, its fair that runs every May during Frieze Week. For its fifth edition, NADA will return to Basketball City on Pier 36, on the Lower East … Read More
  
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• How We Got To America’s ‘Post-Fact’ Politics And Society

  18-03-2016 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Somewhere in the middle of the twentieth century, fundamentalism and postmodernism, the religious right and the academic left, met up: either the only truth is the truth of the divine or there is no truth; for both, empiricism is an error. That epistemological havoc has never ended: much of contemporary discourse and pretty much all of American politics is a dispute over evidence.”
  
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• Guggenheim Receives $3 M. Endowment for Conservation From the Mellon Foundation

  18-03-2016 14:30 via artnews.com
  The Guggenheim Museum’s conservation department has received a $3 million challenge grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support its conservation efforts.The grant, which the museum will need to match two-to-one (raising an additional $6 million), endows the position of deputy director and chief … Read More
  
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• Italy’s Banksy Paints Over 20 Years’ Worth Of His Work To Protest Exhibition

  18-03-2016 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “On Saturday night, the renowned and mysterious Italian street artist Blu went on an art-destroying spree through the streets of Bologna. The work he erased was his own – with the help of activist groups XM24 and Crash, Blu covered 20 years’ worth of massive, colorful murals with gray paint.”
  
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• The Website Where People Post Their Darkest Secrets Anonymously Gives Birth To A Play

  18-03-2016 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The only reason I’m with him is to see if you care enough to fight for me …”“At first, PostSecret was an art project. Then it was a blog site. Now, the ‘community art project’ is an official website, a TED talk, multiple books, museum installations, and, thousands of secrets later, a dramatic event on tour.”
  
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• Forty Under 40: Young Opera Singers To Watch – Part One: The Gentlemen

  18-03-2016 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This list isn’t meant to name “the best” (which isn’t truly possible); it’s “bringing to wider attention singers who may or may not have been known. … Here are 15 male singers who merit your attention, whether or not you have already had the pleasure of hearing them.” (Next up: the ladies.)
  
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• Forty Under 40: Young Opera Singers To Watch – Part Two: The Ladies

  18-03-2016 13:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In my previous article, I described 15 excellent male singers under the age of 40 who are definitely worth hearing. Now I am pleased to present 25 women who are among those making the future bright for opera.”
  
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• Serge Bloch's crazy gifs to help your imagination soar!

  18-03-2016 13:43
  
  Here’s your chance to see an asparagus forest come to life and witness the strange little men frolicking in your loo roll… iconic illustrator Serge Bloch opens a window into his mind with these re-imaginings of ordinary objects as gifs and hopes you want to come and play too Continue reading...
  
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• Morning Links: Cats of Art History Edition

  18-03-2016 13:43 via artnews.com
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• It Survived Dictatorship, Sanctions, And War, But Iraq’s Music And Ballet School Might Not Survive Low Oil Prices

  18-03-2016 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The teachers are still receiving salaries, but funds for instruments and equipment are drying up, leading to the cancellation of performances and raising concerns that the school – which has always recruited based on talent alone – may one day only serve the wealthy or close altogether.”
  
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• Eerie images take a look into Britain's forgotten buildings

  18-03-2016 13:25
  
  Urban explorer and photographer Andrew Marland has captured the ghostly beauty of the country's abandoned architecture
  
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• Spotify Settles With Music Publishers

  18-03-2016 13:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Spotify will pay more than $20 million to music publishers to settle a long-running and complex dispute over licensing, according to an agreement announced on Thursday between the streaming service and the National Music Publishers’ Association, a trade group.”
  
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• The Science Behind The Darkest Black Ever Created

  18-03-2016 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The darkest shade of black isn’t a pigment at all – it’s a material called Vantablack that’s made up of billions of carbon nanotubes clustered together, and it reflects so little light that were you to spread it over a piece of wrinkled tinfoil, the wrinkles would disappear.”
  
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• Ángel Corella, Lovin’ It At Pennsylvania Ballet

  18-03-2016 12:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Mr. Corella, 40, seems to be having a very good time these days as he works to reinvent the Pennsylvania Ballet, where he has made top-to-bottom changes since becoming artistic director in 2014. He has brought on new artistic staff, new administrative leadership, new dancers from all over the world and a new approach to programming.”
  
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• National Book Critics Circle Awards: Ta-Nehisi Coates And Lauren Groff Suffer Upsets

  18-03-2016 12:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Some thought Ta-Nehisi Coates would take home another prize for Between the World and Me, his memoir and meditation on race in America … “Lauren Groff’s novel Fates and Furies, about the secrets of a marriage, also seemed like a front-runner in the fiction prize.”
  
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• German museum seeks funding to purchase looted Kirchner

  18-03-2016 12:27
  
  The Wilhelm-Hack-Museum in Ludwigshafen, Germany, is seeking to raise funds to purchase back an Ernst Ludwig Kirchner painting after reaching a settlement with the heir of Alfred Hess, a Jewish shoe-manufacturer whose family was persecuted by the Nazis.The painting, The Judgement of Paris (1913), is a key Kirchner work and “a jewel in the collection” of the Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, says a statement from the museum.  Provenance research showed that the painting was among several tha
  
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• Martin Parr shows Britain in all its 'stiff upper-lipped, jubilant glory'

  18-03-2016 11:28
  
  Few people are better qualified than Martin Parr to curate an exhibition of photographs depicting Britain in all its eccentric, stiff upper-lipped, defiant, bloody, jubilant glory. And so it’s little wonder that Strange and Familiar: Britain Revealed by International Photographers at the Barbican (until 19 June) is such a hit.
  Parr has brought together a rich assortment of images taken from the 1930s onwards by 23 photographers—none of them British. In the first half of the 20th cen
  
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• Lights, camera, Actionism! Günter Brus stars in Berlin show

  18-03-2016 10:49
  
  Günter Brus (born 1938) leaves little to the imagination. In 1968, he staged a performance at the University of Vienna with fellow artists Otto Mühl, Oswald Wiener, Franz Kaltenbäck and Peter Weibel: Brus cut his chest and thigh, smeared himself in excrement, drank his own urine and sang the Austrian national anthem while masturbating. He was promptly arrested and given a six-month prison sentence.
  Brus was a founding member of Viennese Actionism—along with Mühl, Herma
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 03.17.16

  18-03-2016 08:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Weight of Failure
  Gravity is greater on Planet Freelance than on Planet Employee, and failure is heavier for a freelancer than for a company employee. During 20 years of employment in organizations and … read more
  AJBlog: Field Notes Published 2016-03-17The Importance of Play
  Failure and success tend to go hand in hand. One can’t experience one without the other. Failure is how we learn, how we grow, how we change, and ultimately, how … read more
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• Development Director, PostClassical Ensemble

  18-03-2016 06:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  PostClassical Ensemble (Washington, D.C.) seeks a Development Director. The position is part-time and pays $30,000 to $50,000. The Ensemble, now 13 years old, pursues thematic, cross-disciplinary programming in collaboration with museums and universities (e.g., this year’s month-long Bernard Herrmann festival, with the National Gallery of Art and American Film Institute).
  It records CDs and DVDs for Naxos, and exports its cutting-edge programs nationally via the Executi
  
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• Director of Development and Marketing: Portland Baroque Orchestra

  18-03-2016 06:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Portland Baroque Orchestra, a thriving nonprofit organization with a 32-year history of producing and presenting music in Oregon and the Pacific Northwest, seeks a Director of Development and Marketing. The successful candidate will be joining a stable, highly skilled staff and a committed board of directors in growing the programs and widening the impact of this critically acclaimed musical organization.
  The ideal candidate for Director of Development and Marketing will be an experienced fundra
  
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