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• For Your Weekend Listening, NYT Music Critics Choose Best Recordings Of Each Of Beethoven’s Symphonies

  27-03-2020 22:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  But with live performances suspended by the coronavirus pandemic, weclassical music critics decided to take matters into our own hands andcreate our dream cycle, featuring our favorite recording of eachsymphony with just one rule: No conductor or orchestra could appear morethan once. – The New York Times
  
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• Oregon Shakespeare Festival Lays Off Staff, Cancels Through Labor Day

  27-03-2020 22:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Oregon Shakespeare Festival,one of the oldest and largest American nonprofit theaters and a populartravel destination, said on Friday that it would lay off 80 percent ofits 500 employees, cancel half of this year’s productions and postponeany live performances until after Labor Day. – The New York Times
  
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• What The Literature Of Plague Tells Us

  27-03-2020 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Jill Lepore: “The literature of contagion is vile. A plague is like a lobotomy. Itcuts away the higher realms, the loftiest capacities of humanity, andleaves only the animal. “Farewell to the giant powers of man,” MaryShelley wrote in “The Last Man,” in 1826, after a disease has ravagedthe world. “Farewell to the arts,—to eloquence.” Every story of epidemicis a story of illiteracy, language made powerless, man made brute. But,then, the existence o
  
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• Shifting Ground: Are You Ready For A New Discourse For A New World?

  27-03-2020 21:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “These are not the end times, I mean, but nor are they business as usual,and we would do well to understand that not only is there room for amiddle path between these, but indeed there is an absolute necessitythat we begin our voyage down that path. To the squealing chiliasts andself-absorbed presentists, indulging themselves with phrases like “theend of the world,” I say: “Did it never dawn on you that all of humanhistory has just been one partial apocalypse after anoth
  
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• The Organist Who Kept Britain Company During World War II

  27-03-2020 21:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Sandy, as listeners called him, spoke like a reassuring, relatablefriend. “Sandy Macpherson’s quiet voice is very reassuring at a timewhen our ears are on the alert for warning sirens,” one family wrote inSeptember 1939. At Christmas, fans showered him with “flowers, mufflers,handkerchiefs, cigarettes, fruit and pots of jam.”– The Conversation
  
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• Nightlife Is The Soul Of A City. Now It’s Gone And We Need To Protect It

  27-03-2020 20:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The rise of night mayors after 2012 followed the recognition by many cities that they largely ignored what many called their nighttime economies.Those who worked in the nighttime entertainment sector had long arguedthat their contributions to employment and city tax coffers wentunrecognized.– The Conversation
  
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• A Ballet School In A Rio Favela

  27-03-2020 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Tuany Nascimento grew up in Complexo do Alemão, a poor and often dangerous group of hillside slums in Rio de Janeiro. She studied dance with hopes of becoming a professional ballerina, a dream she gave up in order to help support her family with a day job. But she kept dancing when she could, and enough neighborhood girls became curious that she started her own school, called Na Ponta dos Pes (meaning on pointe). (video) – Al Jazeera
  
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• Of Arts CEOs Who Are Giving Up Their Salaries

  27-03-2020 19:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “There’s a symbolism and communications problem if you’re starting toinflict loss and suffering on your staff. If Peter Gelbor Deborah Rutter start to, and need to, lay off lots of people andcalling the people they have contracts with and saying they going toinvoke force majeure . . . it doesn’t look great or feel great ifthey’re not making a sacrifice themselves.” – Washington Post
  
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• Next Step In Social Distancing And The Arts: Live Performance For One Audience Member At A Time

  27-03-2020 19:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In a project called “One on One”, the Perm Opera and Ballet Theatre, known as one of the most innovative in Russia, will let 850 people (as many as the auditorium could hold) register for a lottery for each ballet, concert, or opera; one winner will get to buy a ticket at the regular price and attend. Says director Marat Gatsalov, “We’d been told that we can’t let viewers into the theatre hall. But that doesn’t mean we can’t let just one viewer in.&rdqu
  
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• 'Stressed, sick and skint': how coronavirus is hitting arts workers

  27-03-2020 18:39
  
  We asked arts workers for their stories of how the lockdown is affecting their livelihoods. Here are their responsesCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThis week we asked arts workers to share how their livelihoods were being affected by the coronavirus. Since then, the UK government’s measures to give financial aid to the self-employed will help the sector – but many are still deeply concerned about the lack of work available in the coming months. Here
  
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• Our Home-Isolation Comes With A Sober Realization: This, Actually, Is Who We Are

  27-03-2020 18:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The necessary response to the pandemic has, after all, intensified hugeswaths of the population’s pre-pandemic situations. The economically andmedically fragile are at new risk;the cloistered and privileged have only thickened the walls of theirbubble. Single people feel extremely single. People in relationships arenow super-duper in relationships. The home has become not a refuge fromthe world’s arena but rather the arena itself. It’s thus tempting tothink of the crisis as a
  
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• Jeremy Marre, Whose Documentaries Introduced Britons and Americans To World Music, Dead At 76

  27-03-2020 18:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “With a minimal camera and sound crew, Mr. Marre visited Jamaican dance halls, Brazilian favelas, Appalachian churches, Egyptian temples, South African workers’ hostels and Bollywood soundstages to film music and musicians on home turf that was often gritty and unglamorous.” – The New York Times
  
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• 'We are all Edward Hopper paintings now': is he the artist of the coronavirus age?

  27-03-2020 17:43
  
  With his deserted cityscapes and isolated figures, the US painter captured the loneliness and alienation of modern life. But the pandemic has given his work a terrifying new significanceWho can fail to have been moved by all the images of people on their doorsteps clapping for the NHS last night? They filled TV screens and news websites, presenting a warming picture of solidarity in enforced solitude – all alone yet all together. But there are some far less reassuring images circulating on
  
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• The Other Bach: Before He Died, Peter Serkin Labored To Reveal The Genius Of C.P.E.

  27-03-2020 17:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Day after day during the recording sessions, he did take after take,hour after hour. It was Marty Krystall who finally starting insisting onregular breaks. Death hovered over the sessions in more ways than one.– The New York Times
  
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• 'I'm stressed, sick and skint': how coronavirus is hitting arts workers

  27-03-2020 17:12
  
  We asked arts workers for their stories of how the lockdown is affecting their livelihoods. Here are their responsesCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThis week we asked arts workers to share how their livelihoods were being affected by the coronavirus. Since then, the UK government’s measures to give financial aid to the self-employed will help the sector – but many are still deeply concerned about the lack of work available in the coming months. Here
  
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• Out Of Another Plague And Quarantine Came A Priceless Record Of Pre-Conquest Mexico

  27-03-2020 17:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It is the middle of a plague — ‘a pestilence so great and universal, that already it has been three months since it started, and many have died and many more continue to die.’ This does little to stop a group of scholars who have sealed themselves off from the world in a Mexico City convent, where they toil on a series of volumes devoted to indigenous knowledge.” Carolina Miranda recounts the story of the Historia General de las cosas de la Nueva España, a
  
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• Artsadmin seeks new Trustees / Artsadmin / London

  27-03-2020 16:34
  We are looking for new Trustees, including a new Chairperson, to add to the skills and experience of the current Board, who enjoy working as part of a supportive but rigorous team, and are passionate...
  
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• Songwriters, Self-Employed Musicians To Get Aid In Bailout Bill

  27-03-2020 16:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Most industry creative and support occupations are not eligible for unemployment.  The bill now covers self-employedsmall-business owners, a category that in music ranges from songwritersto roadies. Under the new bill, self-employed individuals could beginreceiving financial aid, through grants and loans, as soon as nextmonth. – Variety
  
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• UK’s National Theatre To Start Weekly Webcasts Of Its Most Popular Productions

  27-03-2020 16:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The new two-month National Theatre at Home programme will begin with One Man, Two Guvnors, the Richard Bean comedy starring James Corden. The films will be shown at 7pm every Thursday to try to recreate, where possible, the communal viewing experience. They will then be available on demand for seven days.” – The Guardian
  
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• Contributors for short film / Squeaky Pedal / West Midlands

  27-03-2020 15:59
  In this time at which the pause button has been pressed on day to day life, we, like everyone we have had projects postponed and work put on hold. We figured the one thing we could to do is make a...
  
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• Apply to be a UK Creative Community Fellow / Derby Museums / Yorkshire

  27-03-2020 15:45
  https://www.derbymuseums.org/ukcreativecommunityfellows
  UK Creative Community Fellows is the result of a longstanding partnership between Derby Museums and NAS, a United States-based...
  
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• Federal Stimulus Bill Includes $75 Million To Stabilize Public Radio And TV

  27-03-2020 15:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The bill includes $75 million for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting ‘to prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus, including for fiscal stabilization grants to public telecommunications entities,’ the bill says. [It] directs CPB to use the funds to help ‘maintain programming and services and preserve small and rural stations threatened by declines in non-Federal revenues.'”– Current
  
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• 14-Day Creative Quarantine Challenge / Haley McGee / London / Nationwide

  27-03-2020 15:30
  CREATE IN THE TIME OF COVID-19
  I’m currently running a 14-day Creative Quarantine Challenge for artists & creative spirits. The current Challenge is now underway, but the...
  
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• Kansas City Symphony Cancels Concerts Into May But Will Pay Musicians

  27-03-2020 15:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  All salary and benefits for the players wil be maintained through the end of the 2019-20 season in June — thanks, according to executive director Danny Beckley, to increased support from patrons and donors. – The Kansas City Star
  
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• Furloughs And Pay Cuts At Cleveland Museum Of Art

  27-03-2020 14:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Anticipating lost revenues of more than $5 million because of the coronavirus pandemic, the Cleveland Museum of Art announced it will immediately furlough all part-time staff and temporarily lay off a portion of its unionized staff, which includes security guards. In addition, the museum mandated a five-hour-a-week reduction in salary for all nonunion employees, effectively reducing pay by about 11% to 15%.” – The Plain Dealer (Cleveland)
  
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• New York City Ballet Cancels All Spring Performances But Will Pay Through End Of Season

  27-03-2020 14:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The employees who are to be paid and receive benefits through the dark season include the dancers, musicians, stagehands, costume designers, security personnel, ushers and administrators. … For now, their payment schedule is the same as it would have been without the pandemic: They will be paid until the end of the spring season, and then will face a short layoff.” – The New York Times
  
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• Call outj - CEREBELLUM: SNAIL MAIL- Artist`s Mail Art project / Cerebellum / London / Anywhere

  27-03-2020 14:02
  cerebellum presents
  SNAIL MAIL(a mail art exchange)
  *Deadline 4th April*Email provocation/ any questions to: [email protected] invites artists of any medium to produce a...
  
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• Call out - CEREBELLUM: SNAIL MAIL- Artist`s Mail Art project / Cerebellum / London / Anywhere

  27-03-2020 14:02
  cerebellum presents
  SNAIL MAIL(a mail art exchange)
  *Deadline 6th April*Email provocation/ any questions to: [email protected] invites artists of any medium to produce a...
  
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• Seeking submissions from neurodivergent artists / Mainspring Arts / East / Nationwide

  27-03-2020 13:35
  In celebration of becoming a charity - and embracing lockdown - Mainspring Arts is launching Two Metres ApART, a digital museum showcasing the best of neurodivergent art. 
  Every week for 12...
  
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• Art Basel 2020 Postponed But Not Cancelled

  27-03-2020 13:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Art Basel has now moved its Swiss edition — which regularly convenes nearly 300 galleries and is considered to be among the biggest art events each year — to run from September 17–20, with preview days on September 15 and 16. … Earlier this year, Art Basel canceled its Hong Kong fair entirely after the virus’s spread in the city prevented it from taking place.” – ARTnews
  
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• Finance Director / Donmar Warehouse Projects Ltd / London

  27-03-2020 13:14
  Salary commensurate with experience.
  Reporting to the Executive Director you will be responsible for:
  the overall company-wide management of the Company’s finances, including financial...
  
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• Verbier Festival For 2020 Called Off

  27-03-2020 13:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Said festival founder Martin T. Engstroem, “There were far too many uncertainties. Our audience and our musicians come from all over the world with a large population mix. We could not take responsibility for a new outbreak of the virus.” The gathering in the Swiss Alps had been scheduled for July 17 to August 2. – EN24 (Switzerland)
  
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• Leonardo's dreams, pick of the podcasts and female sculptors – the week in art

  27-03-2020 12:59
  
  Inside the mind of a Renaissance genius, chats with Chris Ofili and the dramatic lives of great British sculptors – all in your weekly dispatchThe new Sculpting Lives podcast series explores and celebrates the dramatic lives of British female sculptors including Barbara Hepworth, Elisabeth Frink and Phyllida Barlow.Sculpting LivesTalk Art with Russell Tovey and Robert DiamentThe Serpentine PodcastDialoguesInside the Mind of Leonardo da VinciNational Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh. Contin
  
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• Junior Website Content Editor / British Museum / London

  27-03-2020 12:15
  Junior Website Content Editor Information Services Full-Time Permanent£23,447 per annum Application Deadline: midday on Friday 10th April 2020
  The British Museum is seeking a Junior Website...
  
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• Website Content Editor / British Museum / London

  27-03-2020 12:04
  Website Content Editor Information Services Full time £29,958 per annum Application deadline: midday on Friday 10th April
  The British Museum is seeking to appoint a Website Content...
  
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