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• Listening Plan: A January To Understand Today’s Classical Music

  03-01-2023 23:29 via theguardian.com
  The boundaries of classical music are ever more porous and open, spilling into other forms and all to the good. Give up prejudice or fear or indifference. – The Observer
  
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• Why Sondheim Resonates With The Younger Generation

  03-01-2023 23:01 via theatlantic.com
  My students could appreciate his skill as a musical dramatist, his innovations as a craftsman, his inventive wit and longing harmonic lines. But what really drew them in—or, perhaps, what they drew out—was his preoccupation with people excluded from the dominant society. – The Atlantic
  
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• Understanding The Genius Of Thelonius Monk

  03-01-2023 22:32 via thebaffler.com
  Neither a cult reputation as a pioneer of bebop nor American canonization quite does justice to Monk, who was simply one of the most imaginative composers of the twentieth century, a judgment that in my view does not require the qualifiers “jazz” or “American.” – The Baffler
  
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• A Rookie Orchestra Recording By A Youth Orchestra, Finalist For A Grammy

  03-01-2023 22:31 via nytimes.com
  The album, which is untitled, came together after six weeks of remote instruction followed by in person socially distant rehearsals and four days of recording sessions in which the musicians recorded the sections of the orchestra separately — all without a single Covid-19 infection. – The New York Times
  
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• Does AI Make Plagiarism Undetectable? We College Professors Are Smarter Than That!

  03-01-2023 22:01 via 3quarksdaily.com
  “For me, this new AI bot is not scarey, or even revolutionary. It’s just the latest con for those who would seek to dupe me out of my most prized professional possession: passing grades.” – 3 Quarks Daily
  
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• A Comprehensive List Of Works Now In The Public Domain As Of This Week

  03-01-2023 21:28 via smithsonianmag.com
  Every year, Jennifer Jenkins, director of Duke University School of Law’s Center for the Study of the Public Domain, puts together an extensive list of expiring U.S. copyrights, many of which have a life span of 95 years. – Smithsonian
  
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• Ten Things For The Theatre Industry To Consider For 2023

  03-01-2023 21:03 via thestage.co.uk
  Lyn Gardner: “6) Safeguarding. We don’t expect people in other professions to do their jobs well without proper safeguards, checks and balances in place; we don’t expect them to work long hours for free. Yet in theatre, we do. We should welcome whistleblowers.” – The Stage
  
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• How Failure And Disillusionment Fuel Accomplishment

  03-01-2023 20:29 via nytimes.com
  This turns out to be a running theme — how a strain of perfectionism can doom a pursuit of failure to, well, failure. – The New York Times
  
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• Meet The World’s Absolute Master Of Card Tricks

  03-01-2023 20:02 via nytimes.com
  “Juan Tamariz has been a professional magician for 52 years, … becoming both a household name in his home country and a living legend in magic everywhere. … In Spain, Tamariz is an icon, less like David Copperfield and more like Kermit the Frog.” – The New York Times Magazine
  
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• Cable TV’s Fierce Downward Subscriber Plunge

  03-01-2023 19:29 via axios.com
  Today, roughly two-thirds of U.S. households pay for a cable, satellite or fiber TV subscription, down from 79% in 2017 and 85% in 2007. – Axios
  
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• Ireland Is Using “The Banshees Of Inisherin” To Promote Tourism

  03-01-2023 19:04 via theguardian.com
  “Inis Mór (Inishmore) and Achill Island, the islands where Martin McDonagh’s black comedy was filmed, are marketing the locations, and a Tourism Ireland video about the making of the film has drawn more than 6m views.” – The Guardian
  
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• Brazil’s Arts World Greets Lula’s Arrival And Bolsonaro’s Departure With Great Sighs Of Relief

  03-01-2023 18:01 via theartnewspaper.com
  “The move helps to draw a line under the ‘culture wars’ raging in Brazil that have led to increased censorship, with some artists facing a backlash from conservative political groups.” – The Art Newspaper
  
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• Maya Widmaier-Picasso obituary

  03-01-2023 17:42
  Daughter of Pablo Picasso who inspired several of her father’s paintings and became an authority on his workAmong the more unusual presents the artist Pablo Picasso gave to his elder daughter, Maya, was a box of his nail clippings. These she took to be a token of trust. “My father gave them to me because he was frightened that people would use them against him,” recalled Maya Widmaier-Picasso, who has died of pulmonary failure aged 87. “He was afraid that someone, anyone,
  
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• The Ukrainian Ballet Company Fighting From The Stage

  03-01-2023 17:34 via bbc.com
  “I still think about how I could do more for my country. I think about this every day, but while my friends and family fight for Ukraine, for now my contribution is to dance for Ukraine.” – BBC
  
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• AI Art As Commodity Might Make Sense. But That Is Not What Art Is

  03-01-2023 17:32 via craig-axford.medium.com
  In a culture that has commodified art to the degree ours has, it was probably inevitable that so many would conclude art is nothing more or less than its aesthetic appeal. However, the truth is that art is a process. It begins with the human imagination. – Medium
  
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• The Leaning Tower Of Pisa Is Literally Standing Up Straighter

  03-01-2023 17:03 via news.artnet.com
  “After a stabilization project, begun in 1990, reduced the quirky monument’s dangerous lean by a full 15 inches, the tower has straightened itself out by an additional 1.6 inches since 2001. It still oscillates 0.02 inches over the course of each year, though, the latest results revealed.” – Artnet
  
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• Milan Cancels Sergei Polunin’s “Rasputin” Following Social Media Protests

  03-01-2023 16:35 via reuters.com
  The run of performances was called off by the Arcimboldi Theater as “an act of ‘political and moral responsibility,’ given ‘a climate of tensions and threats.'” Polunin, who was born and raised in Kherson, is a prominent supporter of both Putin and his war on Ukraine. – Reuters
  
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• Is Bulgakov About To Become Another Casualty Of Russia’s Invasion Of Ukraine?

  03-01-2023 16:02 via theguardian.com
  Many writers and other figures are calling for Bulgakov’s home in Kiev, a museum since Soviet days, to be closed, arguing that he was very much against Ukrainian independence and insulted Ukrainians in his novel The White Guard. Ukraine’s culture minister is resisting the demands. – The Observer (UK)
  
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• ‘They are holding on to a dream’: the last bohemians at New York’s Chelsea Hotel

  03-01-2023 15:42
  Cultural icons from Patti Smith and Bob Dylan to Allen Ginsberg and Arthur Miller once roamed its corridors – but what of the artists still living there? A new film checks in with the refuseniks holding out against gentrificationA young Patti Smith playfully leans over a rooftop wall, her raven-black hair tangling with the wind as she points towards the stiletto nib of the Empire State Building in the distance. “Dylan Thomas used to hang out on this very roof!” says the singer.
  
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• The César Awards, France’s Oscars, Bar Anyone Under Investigation For Sex Crimes

  03-01-2023 15:34 via hollywoodreporter.com
  “Artists who have been charged or convicted of sexual crimes can still be nominated for a César, and can still win the award. But they will not be allowed to attend the gala ceremony and, if they win, ‘no one will be allowed to speak on their behalf.'” – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Soon We’ll Get To Hear Historic Wax Cylinder Recordings From The Metropolitan Opera

  03-01-2023 15:01 via nytimes.com
  A specially developed device, the Endpoint Cylinder and Dictabelt Machine, has enabled the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts to retrieve and digitize the Mapleson Cylinders, made by an archivist at the Met in the first years of the 20th century. – The New York Times
  
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• Your ultimate Brisbane events guide: what’s on this weekend, and the best things to do through January

  03-01-2023 15:00
  Summer in the City is Guardian Australia’s handpicked guide to the best arts, gigs and festivals happening around the country. Here, we’ve selected some highlights for Brisbane in January. To view the full interactive list, click hereGet our weekend culture and lifestyle email Continue reading...
  
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• Ancient City Of Petra Is Hit By Flash Floods

  03-01-2023 14:33 via theartnewspaper.com
  High water surged through the rock-hewn city in southern Jordan around Christmas Day and tourists had to be evacuated, though they had returned by December 27. Authorities report no damage. – The Art Newspaper
  
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• Britain’s Arts And Heritage Sites Are Making Huge Cutbacks As Energy Coss Soar

  03-01-2023 14:05 via theguardian.com
  “Theatres, museums, castles and other heritage sites are making staff redundant, turning down the heating, shutting rooms to the public and closing early. The findings come from research that shows nine in 10 such sites across the UK now fear for their future.” – The Guardian
  
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• Protests, Marches, and the Nonprofit Arts Industry: How Change Happens Is Circumstantial

  03-01-2023 13:01 via artsjournal.com
  © 2023, Alan Harrison. So, just change the circumstances. In this first article for 2023, let’s discuss how ...
  
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• Culture 2023: our picks for film, TV, music and art

  03-01-2023 04:00
  The Guardian’s arts editor Alex Needham, music and features writer Sam Wolfson, and film critic Ellen E Jones, on what they’re looking forward to this yearWhat are your cultural new year resolutions? Maybe you’re just going to stop listening to new albums on shuffle, like the film critic Ellen E Jones. “I really ruined Beyoncé’s last album like that,” she says.Nosheen Iqbal is joined by the Guardian’s arts editor, Alex Needham, the music and featu
  
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