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• Marianna Martines, A Phenom In The 18th Century, Comes To Lincoln Center

  06-08-2024 23:31 via nytimes.com
  
  “Martines began her remarkable career at just 16. At 38, she became the first female composer programmed by the Society of Musicians, whose elite concert series also gave Beethoven his Viennese performance debut. But after her death, in 1812, Martines’s music mostly fell silent.” – The New York Times
  
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• Walter Arlen, Who Fled The Holocaust And Became A Composer, Has Died At 103

  06-08-2024 23:01 via nytimes.com
  
  Arlen was “a Viennese musical prodigy who fled to the United States after Nazi Germany annexed Austria in 1938 and became a music critic and a late-in-life composer of Holocaust and Jewish-exile remembrances in song.” – The New York Times
  
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• The Artist Jailed By Putin For Five Tiny Pieces Of Paper

  06-08-2024 22:33 via msn.com
  Sasha Skochilenko, released in the multi-country, multi-person prisoner swap, was serving seven years for substituting price tags in a grocery store with messages like, “The Russian Army bombed an art school in Mariupol where about 400 people were seeking shelter.” – The Atlantic (MSN)
  
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• Banksy’s Newest In London Is A Black Goat

  06-08-2024 22:05 via artnews.com
  
  Why? It’s a mystery. “A Banksy fan who raced to the artwork’s location as soon as it was revealed on social media said she thinks it’s a commentary on humans destroying the natural world.” – ARTnews
  
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• Women Of Color Are Losing Ground In Hollywood

  06-08-2024 21:31 via huffpost.com
  
  The Annenberg report: Of the top 100 2023 films, the numbers are grim – from the 99 that had no Native or Pacific Islander women to the 39 without Black women. Why the backsliding? – HuffPost
  
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• Miami’s Small Arts Organizations Slash Their Budgets And Search For Life Rafts After DeSantis’s Veto Of State Funding

  06-08-2024 21:05 via miamitimesonline.com
  
  “Arts organizations across Miami-Dade County have been left to their own devices … to deal with the cuts in funding, and in many cases, that means making cuts of their own. … Arts groups in the county are nevertheless discussing ways to collaborate and make their resources go further together.” – The Miami Times
  
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• If You Want Your Broadway Show To Do Well, You’ll Need To Capture The Influencers

  06-08-2024 20:32 via nytimes.com
  
  How did The Great Gatsby get excitement for its cast album flowing? TikTok, of course – and also YouTube, Instagram, and X/Twitter, not to mention a party for influencers on all of these channels. Brand strategy: Snag the kids now, and it’ll pay off later. – The New York Times
  
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• Meet Mourad Merzouki, Choreographer Of The Olympics’ Official Dance Showcase

  06-08-2024 20:03 via apnews.com
  
  No, this doesn’t mean the breaking competition. This is free performance before 13,500 spectators at the Trocadéro Champions Park, where the Algerian-French hip-hop choreographer’s latest work combined hip-hop with circus arts, visual arts and martial arts. – AP
  
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• They Asked AI To Write A Stand-Up Show

  06-08-2024 19:31 via bbc.com
  
  One program delivered lazy, sexist jokes and couldn’t be trained out of its ways. So that’s going great – but researchers keep saying it will improve. – BBC
  
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• Yuval Sharon Will Stage Metropolitan Opera’s Next “Ring” Cycle And “Tristan”

  06-08-2024 18:59 via apnews.com
  
  Sharon’s Tristan und Isolde opens March 9, 2026 with Lise Davidsen as Isolde. The Ring begins with Das Rheingold in spring 2028, continues with Die Walküre and Siegfried in 2028-29, and culminates with Gotterdämmerung in 2029-30. Davidsen will sing Brünnhilde, and there will be complete cycles in the spring of 2030. – AP
  
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• Ella Jenkins Revolutionized Music For Children, And At 100, She’s Not Finished Yet

  06-08-2024 18:31 via nytimes.com
  
  “Jenkins captivated her listeners because she presented music not as lessons but as play. A charismatic performer whose accompaniment often consisted of only a baritone ukulele and some percussion, she encouraged her young audiences not to sit still but to get up and move.” – The New York Times
  
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• Chimpanzees Have Back-And-Forth Conversations Much Like Humans Do

  06-08-2024 18:03 via theguardian.com
  
  “Researchers analysed thousands of gestures made by wild chimps in east Africa and found striking similarities with the turn-taking seen in human conversations, in particular how swiftly the apes responded to one another.” – The Guardian
  
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• Let’s Chat About That Abbott Elementary Dance

  06-08-2024 17:31 via aol.com
  
  “To be dancing in the spotlight for that long, and also making sure it’s funny,” says actor Janelle James. But she was also considering “how the song affects people, particularly Black women. … A lot of thought went into that little dance.” – Los Angeles Times (AOL)
  
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• How On Earth Does One Write A Musical About Particle Physics?

  06-08-2024 17:06 via nytimes.com
  
  David Henry Hwang wondered that, too. Yet he’s part of an impressive team working on a show about the Large Hadron Collider and the discovery of the Higgs boson. “It took a year to get my head around how to tell this story,” Hwang said. – The New York Times
  
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• Out of Town: art inspired by summer’s desire to escape from the city

  06-08-2024 17:00
  New York’s Forum Gallery assembles pieces focused on the many joys of heading to nature from the urban worldIn part a fun way to offer a brief respite from summer in the city, and in part a thoughtful inquiry into just what role nature plays in artistic creation, Forum Gallery’s summer exhibition Out of Town brings together nearly two dozen artists working in a wide variety of styles, reminding visitors of the rich variety of moods and emotions that come with venturing away from the
  
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• Lots Of Legal Drama Around Mysterious African Art Collection In Houston

  06-08-2024 16:31 via artnews.com
  
  The collection of 1,400 objects belongs to broker Sam Njunuri, who’s been ordered to sell part of it to pay $990,000 in damages to two former tenants and used bankruptcy proceedings to avoid paying before. What’s more, the objects’ provenance is unclear, and taxpayers’ money has been used to store them. – ARTnews
  
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• Even Now, Hollywood Still Gives Twice As Many Roles To Men As To Women: Annenberg Study

  06-08-2024 16:04 via apnews.com
  
  “Just 32% of speaking characters in the top 100 movies at the box office in 2023 were women or girls, according to (USC’s) Annenberg Inclusion Initiative annual report released Monday. That’s very nearly the same percentage as when Stacy L. Smith first began the study in 2007.” – AP
  
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• Another Spanish Church Restoration Goes Wrong

  06-08-2024 15:37 via theguardian.com
  This isn’t as bad as “Beast Jesus,” but the repainting at the Ermita de Nuestra Señora del Mirón in the city of Soria has some people very upset. One might or might not object to the white-with-coral-trim walls, but the real disaster is on the faces of some little cherubs. – The Guardian
  
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• Writers At The Atlantic Push Back Hard Against Management’s Deal With OpenAI

  06-08-2024 15:02 via msn.com
  “Nearly 60 journalists — including marquee names such as Adam Serwer, Caitlin Flanagan, Jerusalem Demsas, and George Packer — signed a letter calling on the company to “stop prioritizing its bottom line and champion The Atlantic’s journalism.” The staffers want (their) bosses to include AI protections in the union contract.” – The Washington Post (MSN)
  
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• Uh-Oh, Last-Second Cancellations Of Shows Due To COVID Are Back (At Least In Chicago)

  06-08-2024 14:35 via chicagotribune.com
  This past weekend, the Goodman Theatre called off two performances of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil just before curtain time. On Saturday they couldn’t round up enough understudies to cover all the sick cast members; on Sunday they had the same problem with backstage crew. – Chicago Tribune
  
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• David Lynch Has Emphysema And Can’t Leave His House, But He Is Not Retiring

  06-08-2024 14:08 via theguardian.com
  
  He dares not venture out for fear of catching even a cold, and he can only walk a short distance before running out of breath. He says he would try to direct remotely if it came to it. But he tweeted to fans that he “will never retire.” – The Guardian
  
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• When Charles Ives Wrote a Song as Magnificent as Brahms’s

  06-08-2024 07:38 via artsjournal.com
  In the remarkable absence of any suitable acknowledgement of the Charles Ives Sesquicentenary by our nation’s slumbering orchestras, it has
  
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• The Five Composers Who Defined The Sound Of Horror Movie Music

  06-08-2024 00:27 via msn.com
  “The history of horror scores is a long, winding path (that leads to an old abandoned shed stocked with rusty hatchets), with legends of the form and shadowy figures that lurk around the edges of the frame.” Michael Andor Brodeur selects “the most killer composers in film history.” – The Washington Post (MSN)
  
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