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  13-04-2021 20:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  As I hear my student playing the piano through Zoom, just for a moment, I think I am hearing Paderewski in 1912. The sound is imperfect. At moments it drops out. There are distortions of speed and rhythm. Yet, my ear, my mind is hearing music: completing and linking together the aural information that is there. – Bruce Brubaker
  
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• The Jacksonville Symphony seeks Vice President/Chief Advancement Officer.

  01-10-2026 23:49 via artsjournal.com
  ZRG Aspen Leadership Group is proud to partner with the Jacksonville Symphony in the search for a Vice President/Chief Advancement Officer.Reporting to the President & Chief Executive Officer, the Vice President/Chief Advancement Officer will be responsible for planning, implementing, overseeing, and assessing Jacksonville Symphony’s development plans in support of the organization’s strategic vision and growth. As a key member of the leadership team, the CAO will effectively re
  
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• Seventy Thousand Met Opera Tickets, By Lottery

  01-10-2026 22:55 via artsjournal.com
  Good Morning,New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani is paying for 70,000 Metropolitan Opera tickets to be given away by lottery, and a conservative columnist says the Right should be embarrassed that a self-proclaimed socialist thought of it first, though he expects it to convert only “a few thousand” New Yorkers (UnHerd). In Hungary, bookshops file nearly every short Japanese-style poem under haiku, senryū included, and the poet Zsolt L. Rakusz says the form took hold there because Hung
  
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• How Haiku Became Hungarian

  01-10-2026 21:03 via asymptotejournal.com
  
  A foreign poetic form becomes local not when writers reproduce its original conventions faithfully, but when they discover what the form can do in a new language. In Hungary, Japanese short poetry encountered a literary environment already fluent in irony, epigrammatic compression, linguistic play, and knowing when to leave things out. – Asymptote
  
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• Staying Human In The Age Of AI

  01-10-2026 20:31 via justingarydesign.substack.com
  
  The first step to building a better future is to acknowledge the reality of today. AI is not going away, and it is immensely capable across a wide range of domains. According to a recent Stanford study, 88% of organizations are using AI and the number is growing. – Think Like a Game Designer
  
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• The Real Achievement Of Garry Trudeau’s “Doonesbury”

  01-10-2026 20:04 via newrepublic.com
  
  “(It) hasn’t simply been individual story lines, or how they jived with the historical reality in which we read them, but also the depth and breadth of human experience they charted. … Trudeau held the powerful to account, (yet) kept his attention on everyday people our politicians and (celebrities) often neglected.” – The New Republic
  
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• The Conservatives’ Case For Mamdani’s Opera Ticket Giveaway (“Why Didn’t We Think Of It?”)

  01-10-2026 19:44 via unherd.com
  
  Realistically, Mamdani and his colleagues may convert a few thousand New Yorkers who would otherwise never have set foot in the Met. Even so, they will have achieved more than armies of arts administrators and music teachers, not to mention the conservative guardians of culture who deplore musical wokery. – Unherd
  
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• Why Coltrane Still Matters

  01-10-2026 19:31 via news.harvard.edu
  
  First and foremost, to him, the relationship between music and communicating with the divine was ultimately the most important thing. To him, music and doing it with excellence, was about communing with the divine, and his ultimate expression of that that everybody cites is, of course, the album “A Love Supreme.” – The Harvard Gazette
  
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• Ben Affleck Says He Used AI Extensively In His New Movie

  01-10-2026 19:15 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  “I used [AI] for lots of things in that movie. I’m a little bit hesitant to point out what they are — or even talk about it — because in my business, we’re trying to foster the illusion of reality, right?” – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Why Reddit Is Shutting Down Its RSS Feeds

  01-10-2026 19:01 via techcrunch.com
  
  In a word (well, two words), AI bots. – TechCrunch
  
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• Atlanta Symphony’s Nathalie Stutzmann On Working With Orchestras

  01-10-2026 18:44 via artsatl.org
  
  “I think musicians are artisanal people. Every morning we have to try to do better. We have to start again — to practice. Why do we practice every day? Why do we question every day a score? Why do we reread a score that we have known for 40 years?” – ArtsATL
  
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• “Glee”s Outsized Impact On Broadway

  01-10-2026 18:31 via nytimes.com
  In the 11 years since the last episode of “Glee” aired, one thing has become clear: The TV series was a game changer for musical theater. – The New York Times
  
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• Stage Manager – The Most Stressful Job In The Arts

  01-10-2026 18:15 via artshub.com.au
  In theatre – and across dance, opera, musicals and concerts – the stage manager is like the air traffic controller of the production. Without them, chaos would ensue, yet they rarely get acknowledged. – ArtsHub
  
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• Houston’s Oldest Black Theater Company Is Now 50

  01-10-2026 18:05 via texasobserver.org
  “Back in the mid-1970s, the late George Hawkins, founder of the Ensemble Theatre, imagined a place where Black actors could find work and perform plays that mattered. Even after he passed away, in 1990, his legacy and that dream continue to grow as the Ensemble prepares for its 50th-anniversary season starting this fall.” – Texas Observer
  
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• Utah Bans Even More Books From Public Schools

  01-10-2026 17:44 via sltrib.com
  
  Utah just banned seven more books from all public schools — the most it has ever banned in a single go since the state’s sensitive materials law went into effect. The additions bring the total number of books now prohibited in Utah public schools to 44. – Salt Lake Tribune
  
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• World Monuments Fund: Funding Is The Biggest Threat To World Heritage

  01-10-2026 17:31 via theartnewspaper.com
  
  Of 372 nominations for the 2027 Watch list, 65% of nominators cited funding shortages and economic development as a primary challenge, up from 55% in 2024. – The Art Newspaper
  
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• By Biological Definition, AI Is Life

  01-10-2026 17:15 via noemamag.com
  
  There is nothing artificial about systems built from real atoms, powered by real electricity, running in real machines. The systems reproduce, vary, adapt, undergo selection and gather energy from their environment. By any working definition that draws on biology rather than philosophy or religion, that is life. – Noema
  
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• Choreographer Pam Tanowitz, Contemporary Dance Star, On Working With Ballet Companies

  01-10-2026 17:03 via thetimes.com
  “Yes, I am a ballet outsider. I don’t have all the ballet steps at my fingertips but I have a list of ballet steps and I go through them like a laundry list and experiment. … It’s hard to separate the two systems now. I have my own ideas no matter what.” – The Times (UK)
  
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• Together Again: Back for More Stupid

  01-10-2026 16:42 via artsjournal.com
  <a href="https://www.artsjournal.com/herman/2026/10/together-again-back-for-more-stupid.html" title="Together Again: Back for More Stupid” rel=”nofollow”>Musk and
  
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• After 40 Years, Segerstrom Center Is Thriving, Bringing L.A.-Level Performing Arts To Orange County

  01-10-2026 16:32 via yahoo.com
  Building a Lincoln Center-style multi-venue arts center in a county that was a byword for conservative suburbia seemed improbable in 1986, but philanthropist Henry Segerstrom pulled it off. Now, after getting hit hard by the pandemic, the complex is back on track, with a $14.6 million surplus last year. – Los Angeles Times (Yahoo!)
  
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• Judge Throws Out Alec Baldwin’s Lawsuit Against Prosecutor Who Tried “Rust” Shooting Case

  01-10-2026 16:04 via variety.com
  
  “A federal judge on Wednesday threw out much of Baldwin‘s civil rights lawsuit against prosecutors in the Rust case, finding they are entitled to prosecutorial immunity. Baldwin sued last year, alleging he was the victim of an out-of-control prosecution that wrongly sought to convict him for the accidental shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins in 2021.” – Variety
  
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• It Was Challenge After Challenge To Get Calder’s Clouds Back In Place At The Senate Office Building

  01-10-2026 15:31 via nytimes.com
  They came down in the first place because they were too heavy, so they were remade. Restorers had to find a motor to move them the way Calder intended. Installing them in a Congressional building meant extra bureaucratic hurdles. And the particular black paint Calder used had been discontinued. – The New York Times
  
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• Moribund San Antonio Philharmonic Sues Brand-New Orchestra Harmonium Of Texas

  01-10-2026 15:05 via yahoo.com
  “The Philharmonic alleges (Harmonium founder) Jeffrey Kahane misled the (Philharmonic) when he resigned (as its music director) in January … (and) that Kahane used ‘trade secrets’ to which he had access — including donor lists and an email marketing list — to assist him in starting the competing orchestra.” – San Antonio Express-News (Yahoo!)
  
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• Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger Clears Final Hurdle As Judge Approves Lawsuit Settlement

  01-10-2026 14:30 via variety.com
  
  “On Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín, who is overseeing the antitrust case aimed at blocking the Paramount-Warner Bros. deal approved Paramount’s settlement with the 12 Democratic state attorneys general who brought the case to resolve the litigation.” – Variety
  
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• Middle Schoolers, Blocked From Most Social Media, Turn Comments On An NPR Podcast Into A Hangout Spot

  28-09-2026 20:30 via theverge.com
  
  “When Glass asked one of the kids why they picked this particular podcast, they said, ‘We just, like, looked for podcasts that didn’t have many comments.’” Ouch. But also, creative as heck. – The Verge
  
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• An Ohio School District Cancels A Popular Play, And The Fallout Is Ongoing

  28-09-2026 20:00 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  “Copley Superintendent Aimee Kirsch said the play was canceled not because of its gay themes but because the proper vetting procedure wasn’t followed.” Unh-hunh. The students cast in the canceled She Kills Monsters were offered parts in the newly approved Alice in Wonderland. – Akron Beacon Journal (Yahoo)
  
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• Former Disney CEO Bob Iger On Creativity

  28-09-2026 19:45 via hbr.org
  A culture of creativity is also a culture accepting of failure. Creativity is not a science. You can’t possibly bat 1,000. There are inevitable failures, and it’s really important to know as a culture how to process failure so that when you do, it doesn’t destroy people’s ability to continue to create. – Harvard Business Review
  
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• Paramount Boss David Ellison’s Big Challenge: Winning Over Hollywood

  28-09-2026 19:31 via latimes.com
  
  The Paramount Skydance chief executive will have to work hard to repair badly frayed relations with Hollywood talent who fiercely opposed the consolidation of two historic studios as a bad deal for workers. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Why America Looks The Way It Does

  28-09-2026 19:02 via newyorker.com
  
  It would be hard to overstate how ignorant the Founders of the United States were about their own country. The main map they’d used to negotiate the postwar peace with Britain was woefully inaccurate. – The New Yorker
  
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• The Glenn Gould Of Imagination

  28-09-2026 18:44 via hedgehogreview.com
  The first thing anyone notices about Gould’s playing is the precision of his articulation, and that articulation is so precise that you might—not that you should, but you might—think of him as mechanical, if you didn’t also see him. – Hedgehog Review
  
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