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• Rethinking A Culture Of Innovation For Opera

  20-08-2024 23:31 via classical-music.uk
  
  The canonic composers learned by doing, failing, and doing again. This is no longer the norm in opera, where creators rarely get the opportunity to change and experiment. As a result, the biggest innovators could be discarded before they truly begin. – Classical Music
  
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• Pittsburgh Symphony Musicians Agree On New Contract

  20-08-2024 23:01 via post-gazette.com
  The musicians current base salary is $110,384, which includes an electronic media agreement stipulating payments relating to recordings and electronic media. At the conclusion of the new contract in 2027, the base salary level will have increased to $124,020. – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
  
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• Local News Is Disappearing From Radio Stations As Radio’s Business Model Collapses

  20-08-2024 22:31 via edition.cnn.com
  
  The existential threat to the radio business model comes as listeners abandon terrestrial broadcasts in favor of on-demand podcasts and streaming services, part of a larger digital reckoning that has forced widespread layoffs across some of the nation’s largest media companies. – CNN
  
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• AI-Created Cartoons For Kids Are Here (But The Kids Don’t Seem To Be Watching)

  20-08-2024 22:01 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  The shows have failed to take off. Since last year, roughly 20 episodes have been released. They collectively have less than 40,000 views on YouTube and are among the least watched content on the company’s accounts. – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Why Do We Let Technology Drive What We Do?

  20-08-2024 21:32 via thenewatlantis.com
  
  Our tech debates do not begin by deliberating about what kind of future we want and then reasoning about which paths lead to where we want to go. Instead they go backward: we let technology drive where it may, and then after the fact we develop an “ethics of” this or that. – The New Atlantis
  
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• Do We Now Know Where The Long-Lost Leonardo “Salvator Mundi” Has Been Stashed?

  20-08-2024 21:05 via euronews.com
  
  During a BBC profile of Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman, a friend of the ruler said that the painting, purchased in 2017 for $450 million, is currently in a Geneva storage facility and that MBS intends it to be the centerpiece of a Louvre-like museum to be built in Riyadh. – Euronews
  
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• The Ethical Tangle In Trying To Do Good

  20-08-2024 20:31 via 3quarksdaily.com
  
  Is it possible for such a civic minded person, concerned with the wellbeing of others and the events of the day, to view the world with wonder?  Will the energy and compassion that led them to do the most good they can do eventually be crushed under the weight of the world’s misery? – 3 Quarks Daily
  
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• More Theatres In Britain Are Doing Shows Without Intermissions

  20-08-2024 20:02 via theguardian.com
  Skipping the interval (as they call it over there) is somewhat controversial: some producers and directors think that offering a shorter evening may bring back patrons who’ve been staying away since the pandemic, while many theatres depend on the income from bar sales during the break. – The Guardian
  
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• Artists Using AI For Images Of A More Sustainable Climate

  20-08-2024 19:29 via latimes.com
  
  “Something different happens in the mind when you create something that defies even your own expectations or ideas. I don’t think anybody who plugs in the prompts for this ship necessarily imagined that this was going to come up.” – Los Angeles Times
  
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• A George Orwell Archive Is Being Sold Off Bit By Bit

  20-08-2024 19:06 via theguardian.com
  
  “The extensive archive of correspondence and contracts amassed by Orwell’s original publisher, Victor Gollancz, … is being offered for sale on the open market, following a decision in 2018 by the publisher’s parent company to sell the archive because the warehouse was closing.” – The Observer (UK)
  
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• Not So Fast: A Last-Minute Buyer Makes An Offer For Paramount

  20-08-2024 18:31 via nytimes.com
  
  The bid is the latest twist in a monthslong saga over control of Paramount, a once-mighty TV and film colossus. In July Skydance, the Hollywood studio founded by the technology scion David Ellison, agreed to buy out Shari Redstone, Paramount’s controlling shareholder. – The New York Times
  
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• Lisa Nandy May Not Be An Artist, But She May Be The Culture Minister Britain Needs

  20-08-2024 18:04 via classical-music.uk
  
  “Those pining for a cultured culture minister should be careful what they wish for – especially when looking romantically to counterparts in Europe who take a ‘personal’ interest in their brief. … We need political steel, an understanding of the technical and administrative problems we face and belief in what we do.” – Classical Music (UK)
  
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• Barcelona Is Being Crushed By Overtourism

  20-08-2024 17:31 via nytimes.com
  
  For anyone hoping to understand the complicated contours of overtourism in Barcelona, the Carmel Bunkers is a good place to start. – The New York Times
  
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• Harold Meltzer, Composer And Contemporary Classical Evangelist, Has Died At 58

  20-08-2024 17:05 via nytimes.com
  
  “(He) set aside a career as a lawyer to create a highly regarded body of energetic, colorful chamber, vocal and orchestral scores that mixed accessibly melodic themes and rich ensemble textures with the sharp-edged angularity of modernism.” – The New York Times
  
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• Melbourne Symphony Musicians Vote No Confidence In Management

  20-08-2024 16:31 via limelight-arts.com.au
  
  While the precipitating event was the canceling/uncanceling of performances by pianist Jayson Gillham after he dedicated a piece to journalists killed in Gaza, a letter from MSO musicians says that there are longstanding issues of poor communication, lack of accountability and low morale. – Limelight (Australia)
  
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• Demonstrators Picket Dallas Black Dance Theatre After It Fired All Its Dancers

  20-08-2024 16:03 via msn.com
  “The rally, led by the national labor union American Guild of Musical Artists, was in protest of auditions taking place at the dance company to replace main company dancers who were fired last week. … AGMA, which represents the fired dancers, says it’s a response to (their) union efforts.” – The Dallas Morning News (MSN)
  
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• Were Banksy’s London animals a comment on Gaza – or just monkeying around? | Carol Diehl

  20-08-2024 15:43
  
  The graffiti artist’s latest series reignited the same boring ‘criminal or genius?’ arguments – but there is deeper meaning to be found in his work, if you know how to lookBanksy is back, and his nine graffitied works around London in nine days have prompted the usual questions. Is it art? Vandalism? And what does it mean, anyway? All featured wild animals – among them a horned mountain goat perched atop a narrow column, a trio of acrobatic monkeys swinging across a
  
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• Why Have Standup Comedians At The Edinburgh Fringe Been Performing Outdoors? They’ve Had To

  20-08-2024 15:32 via theguardian.com
  “These natural basement-dwellers have been flushed out of their venues by various fire alarms and outages, including a city-wide power cut that caused the partial deflation of the giant purple cow inflatable in George Square. Oh, the humanity.” – The Guardian
  
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• Police Had Evidence To Charge Now-Deceased CEO Of Peoria’s PBS Station With Embezzlement And Forgery

  20-08-2024 15:06 via wcbu.org
  
  “There was enough evidence to charge former WTVP president and CEO Lesley Matuszak with embezzlement of funds and forgery, had she not taken her own life. That was the probable cause determination of the Peoria County state’s attorney’s office after reviewing the Peoria Police Department’s investigation.” – WCBU (Peoria, IL)
  
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• So Who Did The Embezzling At Sacramento’s Public Radio Station? Here’s The Suspect.

  20-08-2024 14:34 via capradio.org
  An unredacted copy of the audit conducted by Sacramento State University (which owns the station’s license) reveals that Jun Reina, general manager of the station from 2020 to 2023, is “Subject #1.” Reina had previously been chief financial officer and COO. – Capital Public Radio (Sacramento)
  
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• Shen Yun’s Young Dancers Live And Work In Abusive Conditions: Investigation

  20-08-2024 14:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “In pursuit of ever larger audiences, Shen Yun has treated many of its performers as an expendable commodity. … It has routinely discouraged them from seeking medical care when their bodies have broken down, and commanded their obedience to grueling rehearsal and tour schedules through relentless emotional abuse and manipulation.” – The New York Times
  
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• French Actor Alain Delon, 88

  20-08-2024 00:01 via msn.com
  Mr. Delon, who vaulted to fame with his performance as the murderous opportunist Tom Ripley in “Purple Noon” (1960), was sometimes called “the male Brigitte Bardot” for his smoldering good looks. – Washington Post (MSN)
  
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