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• Danielle Allen talks about how orchestras can impact community

  04-11-2023 16:17 via artsjournal.com
  Danielle Allen, Vice-President of Education and Community of The Philadelphia Orchestra, talks about impacting community through health, education, access and research.
  
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• On my radar: Cat Power’s cultural highlights

  04-11-2023 16:00
  
  The indie singer-songwriter on her favourite New York restaurant, Dave Chapelle on top form, and Tracey Emin up closeCharlyn Marie “Chan” Marshall, who goes by the stage name Cat Power, was born in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1972 and grew up in the south of the US. She started playing music in the late 80s and recorded her first two albums back-to-back in 1994. Known for her tender, thoughtful indie rock, inflected with blues and soul, Marshall has released 11 studio albums, including the
  
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• ‘It starts with women getting angry’: the giant exhibition giving art’s feminist trailblazers their due

  04-11-2023 12:55
  
  Snubbed by the art world, female artists across 20th-century Britain created work on kitchen tables, in community centres, and at wild gigs. Now, a landmark show at Tate Britain is revealing just how revolutionary their work wasThe first time the Women’s Liberation Movement landed squarely in the imagination of the British public was 1970. Twenty-two million people watched the Miss World host Bob Hope on TV being flour-bombed by protesters, after he joked that he was “very happy to b
  
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• ‘It was odd to see someone standing in a 30ft-high window’: Anthony Edralin’s best phone picture

  04-11-2023 11:00
  
  The photographer was staring out of the window at work when something exciting, visually intriguing yet entirely everyday caught his eyeBefore he became a professional photographer and videographer, Anthony Edralin worked as an analyst for Sky TV. On the day this shot was taken, they had recently moved to new offices, and Edralin found himself staring out of the window waiting for something to happen. Then it did, in the form of a gaggle of window cleaners on cherry pickers.“It was a bit o
  
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• From Little Simz to Beowulf: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

  04-11-2023 07:00
  
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• Assistant Professor of Music Composition Tenure Track

  04-11-2023 02:16 via artsjournal.com
  The Hartt School, a conservatory of Music, Dance, and Theatre at the University of Hartford, invites applications for a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor of Music Composition. Successful candidates will: demonstrate fluency with, and an array of strengths in, 21st century compositional concert music practices; have an established, professional profile as composer/performer, as enumerated in the qualifications below; and demonstrate an eagerness to shape and grow the Hartt Composition
  
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