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• A Record 39 Christmas Songs Dominated Year End Billboard Charts

  29-12-2020 23:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  Each holiday season, Mariah Carey’s song and other holiday tunes begin to climb the Billboard charts as their popularity resurfaces through streaming, radio play and even digital sales. Brenda Lee’s “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” is No. 2 on the Hot 100 chart this week, followed by Bobby Helms’ “Jingle Bell Rock,“ Burl Ives’ “A Holly Jolly Christmas” and Andy Williams’ “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Y
  
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• Ex-Ticketmaster CEO To Movie Theatres: Time To Reinvent And Here’s How

  29-12-2020 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  “This is the opportune time to review pricing strategies with the goal to both increase attendance and make the grosses larger. We all know that attendance has been static and the revenue growth in the industry in America has been from raising prices. Theaters will need to look at and embrace variable pricing. Lower prices on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, and before 4pm on Thursday—ticket prices from $4-$7, might entice new customers to fill otherwise empty seats and change attenda
  
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• Is Substack The New Journalism?

  29-12-2020 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “In its variety, the Substack corpus resembles the blogosphere. It is produced by a mix of career journalists, bloggers, specialists, novelists, hobbyists, dabblers, and white-collar professionals looking to plump up their personal brands. The company has tried to recruit high-profile writers, offering (to a select few) health-care stipends, design help, and money to hire freelance editors. In certain instances, Substack has also paid advances, often in the generous six figures, incentivi
  
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• Designer Pierre Cardin, 98

  29-12-2020 22:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  He clothed the famous — artists, political luminaries, tastemakers and members of the haute bourgeoisie — but he was also a merchant to the masses with an international brand, his name affixed to an outpouring of products, none too exalted or too humble to escape his avid eye. – The New York Times
  
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• The (Difficult) Public Art Of 2020

  29-12-2020 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Public artworks created in 2020 often took up urgent political and social issues, and the very notion of monuments—of which figures were being elevated and how they were rendered—figured in protest movements, opinion pages, and beyond.” – ARTnews
  
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• Understanding The Concept Of Electricity Was Difficult At First

  29-12-2020 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The strangeness of electricity seemed to be that it was at once ‘so moveable and incapable of rest’ and yet also capable of being arrested if deprived of a suitable conductor, for example, by the air.” – Cabinet
  
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• How Beethoven Changed Music In The Young United States

  29-12-2020 21:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  From an 1805 concert for the gentry of Charleston featuring the first movement of the First Symphony through the flood of German immigrants in the 1840s, the establishment of orchestras in New York and Boston, and the rise of the Romantic cult of the lone genius, Beethoven’s music was what established both the habit of programming concerts focusing on dead composers’ works and the idea of classical music as an ennobling force with moral value. – Smithsonian Magazine
  
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• New York Chauvinism? “Groundbreaking” Show at the Whitney Builds on Dartmouth College’s Lead

  29-12-2020 20:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  I didn’t disclose my contrarian reaction to the Whitney Museum’s Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art when it opened last February. But now I feel less compunction about tempering the praise lavished by art critics on this exploration of how U.S. modernists were inspired by Mexican painters. – Lee Rosenbaum
  
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• “An Act of Empathy” — a Dvořák Radio Documentary

  29-12-2020 20:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  When PostClassical Ensemble produced an hour-long film about Dvořák and “the American experience of race” last September, we hardly envisioned turning it into a 45-minute public radio special for the holidays. But that’s what happened, thanks to an invitation from Rupert Allman, who produces the nationally distributed radio magazine 1A. – Joseph Horowitz
  
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• The Argument Over Who Controls The New Digital Public Squares

  29-12-2020 20:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  The speech platforms are rather closer to a form of mass voluntary intellectual pornography: a marketplace that lauds the basest instincts, incentivizes snark and outrage, brings us to revel in the savage burn. – National Affairs
  
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• What It Takes To Revive A Dead Language

  29-12-2020 20:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  The obvious case of a language being brought back to full life is Hebrew, which was used in Jewish religious ceremonies and texts but hadn’t been a full-fledged spoken language for about two millennia when a conscious decision was made to revive it for use in what would become Israel. Yet there was a couple of key conditions present for Hebrew’s success that weren’t there in the case of, for instance, Irish. – JSTOR Daily
  
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• The Death Of Letter-Writing?

  29-12-2020 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  Fundamentally, whether you’re convinced that instant communication heralds the death of the literary letter depends on how you define a letter. – Times Literary Supplement
  
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• Community Engagement & Projects Coordinator / The West Horsley Place Trust / South East

  29-12-2020 19:11
  This an exciting time to join the charity and, having successfully achieved National Lottery Heritage Funding, we are seeking a Community Engagement & Projects Coordinator to deliver activities...
  
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• What Stand-Up Comedians Have Learned From Working On Zoom For Nine Months

  29-12-2020 19:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Vulture spoke with [11] comedians about how pivoting to virtual and outdoor shows in 2020 were (and weren’t) helpful for preparing material, lessons they learned about performing during the pandemic, and how they see themselves evolving as performers in response to the radical shift we’ve all faced this year.” – Vulture
  
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• The Relationship Between Writing And Drinking

  29-12-2020 18:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Nothing slows the flywheel, nothing treats the node of unease on the ribs, like a drink—you don’t have to be an alcoholic to know that. And for writers, there might even be a fragile biochemical moment when the drinking helps.” – The Atlantic
  
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• Studio Manager and Creative Producer / SamRockSamRock Ltd. / London

  29-12-2020 18:29
  Full-time position starting Feb 2021Salary: £24,000 - £26,000 pa depending on experience
  Looking for a new Studio Manager who can work with a significant focus on creative output....
  
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• Bollywood Depended Even More On Ticket Income Than Hollywood Did. Here’s How India’s Finally Embracing Direct-To-Streaming.

  29-12-2020 18:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  The fallout from the pandemic reduced box office grosses by about 75%, “making it easier for streaming services to land new movies, even with some theaters reopened. … The investments by streaming services in Bollywood content have also led to a surge of creativity. Instead of the usual romantic or action-hero films with all-star casts, more shows and movies are now centered on women, war and other topics.” – The New York Times
  
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• Why Barcelona’s Bookstores Are Thriving During COVID

  29-12-2020 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The pandemic has made people aware of the need to support their local bookshop,” said Maria Carme Ferrer, president of the Catalan booksellers’ association. “Bookshops are local cultural centres.” – The Guardian
  
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• The Recipe For A Viral TikTok Dance Hit

  29-12-2020 17:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Drawing from a lexicon of hip-hop-inspired moves, … the micro-dances of TikTok are typically front-facing and most animated from the hips up, tailored to the vertical frame of a smartphone screen. Governed by time limits of 15 or 60 seconds, they also tend to stay in one place; you can do them pretty much anywhere. While these TikTok dances might seem purely fun and frivolous, there’s an art to creating and performing them in such a way that gets attention.” – Da
  
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• Barbara Weisberger, Founder Of Pennsylvania Ballet, Dead At 94

  29-12-2020 16:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  At age 8, she became George Balanchine’s first student at his School of American Ballet. Later, in Philadelphia in 1961, with a couple of graduates of SAB and a Ford Foundation grant, she founded the Pennsylvania Ballet, the first company in what became the regional dance boom of the 1960s and ’70s. – The Philadelphia Inquirer
  
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• Romance Novels Are A Massive Business. Why Do So Few Get Adapted For TV?

  29-12-2020 16:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Even as networks and streaming services slaver over intellectual property with prearranged fan bases, few mass-market romance novels have found their way to screens. Character-driven and story rich, they would seem to have a lot of what television wants. But showrunners have played hard to get.” Alexis Soloski explores why. – The New York Times
  
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• 5 week Frame Drum Online Course / Elizabeth Nott/ Frame Drums UK / London

  29-12-2020 15:56
  Hello! And welcome to this New Year 2021 special course!
  This 5 week online course on Frame Drumming is for Lower to Intermediate levels. It will be on Wednesdays 6-7PM starting 13th January.
  Cost...
  
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• Nudged By COVID, Six Philadelphia Museums Move Toward Forming A Consortium

  29-12-2020 15:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  “What began as practical fund-raising talk in the midst of unprecedented disruption has now become a full-blown exploration of the possibilities to cooperate and even collaborate on everything from programming to technology to health insurance.” – The Philadelphia Inquirer
  
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• Arts Institutions Lost Their Box Office Income This Year. Now They’re Struggling For Contributions, Too.

  29-12-2020 15:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Despite an outpouring of contributions when the virus first struck, individual giving to arts organizations fell by 14 percent in North America during the first nine months of the year, [and the] average size of gifts from the most active, loyal patrons fell by 38 percent. … [The arts] are facing competition from pressing causes including hunger, health care and social justice.” – The New York Times
  
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• Digital Artist for Interactive Project / BYW / London

  29-12-2020 14:40
  We are looking for a digital artist for an interactive/animation project.
  The brief is to create an interactive digital version of an existing object. 
  This could be rendered as a 2D or a 3D...
  
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• Tony Rice, Virtuoso Guitarist Who Brought Jazz Stylings To Bluegrass, Dead At 69

  29-12-2020 14:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  “[He] collaborated with Ricky Skaggs, Jerry Garcia and Béla Fleck, and, with mandolinist David Grisman, defined the synthesis of bluegrass, jazz and chamber music known as ‘dawg music.'” As one critic put it, “If you play bluegrass guitar, you have to come to terms with Rice the way portrait photographers have to come to terms with [Richard] Avedon.” – The Washington Post
  
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• The Riverside Bookstalls Of Paris Have Been There For 400 Years. Can They Survive 2020’s Parade Of Catastrophes?

  29-12-2020 14:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Despite frequent bans by assorted French kings, bouquinistes – the first dictionary entry for the term was in 1752 – have been hawking their wares along the Seine since the 16th century, originally from handcarts, voluminous pockets and trestle tables. … 227 franchises were operating at the beginning of the year; 221 are open now – at least, in theory. In practice, except on sunny weekends, as many as 80% of the railway-green boxes are more or less permanently cl
  
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• Producer / Luis Amalia / London

  29-12-2020 13:58
  Hello. I'm Luis Amália, queer international performer based in LondonI'm looking to develop a long term relationship with a producer, engage with the production work and share the...
  
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• Community Engagement Officer (Part Time 20 hrs) / Elgiva Theatre / South East

  29-12-2020 13:01
  The Elgiva aims to be at the heart of the local community which means we require a creative and motivated individual to lead our community engagement programme. A new post, responsible for...
  
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• Junior Photographer / National Science and Media Museum (Science Museum Group) / Yorkshire

  29-12-2020 12:48
  Do you want to be part of a project which will improve public accessibility to a nationally important collection? Do you want to work with one of the world’s greatest photographic...
  
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• Collections Unpacking Assistant / Science Museum Group / South West

  29-12-2020 11:47
  Are you interested in a unique opportunity to gain practical experience with one of the world’s most significant science, technology, and medicine collections? Do you want to join a fast-paced...
  
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• Chair & Trustees / Chantry Dance Company / East Midlands / National

  29-12-2020 11:11
  As Chantry Dance prepares to present its latest production, The Imprisoned Moon, the company is seeking a new Chair and Trustees to join its Board as it consolidates its position as one of England's...
  
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• Patti Smith: 'As a writer, you can be a pacifist or a murderer'

  29-12-2020 09:00
  
  As she prepares to ring in 2021 with a performance on screens at Piccadilly Circus, the punk poet explains why she’s optimistic amid the ‘debris’ of Trump’s years in officePatti Smith talks about her first poetry performance – in 1971 at St Mark’s Church in New York’s Bowery – as if it were yesterday. “I remember everything,” she says over the phone from her home in New York. Smith was in her early 20s, working at a bookshop and living
  
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• Michigan Opera Theatre Seeks Digital Media Manager and Storyteller

  29-12-2020 05:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Detroit’s stalwart of opera and dance is hiring for a new position, the Digital Media Manager and Storyteller. This candidate must articulate Michigan Opera Theatre’s vision to its audience, and serve as an ambassador to the city of Detroit, to grow the opera and dance audience.The Digital Media Manager and Storyteller will play an essential role for Michigan Opera Theatre in supporting company objectives, charged with elevating the presence and relevancy of opera and dance in metro
  
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