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• Personal and Professional Wellbeing / AMA / East / Online

  13-03-2019 17:10
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• “Spring Awakening” Composer Duncan Sheik Is Dead At 56

  18-09-2026 16:48 via nytimes.com
  “(His) alt-pop hit ‘Barely Breathing’ became a Generation X touchstone, but (he) squirmed under the label of MTV heartthrob and eventually decamped to Broadway, winning two Tonys for composing the smash musical.” – The New York Times
  
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• Ravinia Festival Starts On A Second Renovation Project

  18-09-2026 16:35 via wbez.org
  
  This summer the Chicago Symphony’s summer home re-opened its concert pavilion after a $70 million revamp. Next on the to-do list, with work starting in October, is a $38 million makeover of the Martin Theatre, the last remaining structure from when Ravinia’s park-like grounds first opened in 1904. – WBEZ (Chicago)
  
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• Pittsburgh Symphony’s Manfred Honeck Gets Big Jobs In London And San Francisco

  18-09-2026 15:34 via moto-perpetuo.com
  
  The 68-year-old (as of Thursday) Austrian will become Principal Conductor of London’s Philharmonia Orchestra in 2028, succeeding Santtu-Matias Rouvali.  That same season he starts as the San Francisco Symphony’s Festival Director, a new title in which he’ll program and conduct a three-week festival for each of the next five seasons. – Moto Perpetuo
  
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• Plaintiffs In Kennedy Center Case Ask Judge To Consider Putting It In Receivership Or Replacing Board

  18-09-2026 15:02 via artnews.com
  
  A joint statement from the plaintiffs said, “If the current leadership of the Kennedy Center is unwilling or unable to exercise its fiduciary duty to protect the historic building and the grounds of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the court should consider appointing a receiver or replacing that leadership.” – ARTnews
  
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• Judge Orders Trump Not To Tear Down Kennedy Center Without 30 Days’ Notice

  18-09-2026 14:36 via apnews.com
  “A federal judge on Thursday ordered the Kennedy Center to provide 30 days’ notice before making any major physical changes to the building, including demolishing it as President Donald Trump has threatened.” – AP
  
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• Strike Is Over: San Francisco Opera And Its Orchestra Reach Deal On Contract

  18-09-2026 14:00 via msn.com
  “San Francisco Opera management and its orchestra musicians have reached a tentative agreement on a new contract, ending a strike that began nearly a week ago and forced the cancellation of multiple performances at the start of the company’s 2026-27 season.” – San Francisco Chronicle (MSN)
  
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• Hostage Culture, Now With Fencing

  17-09-2026 23:16 via artsjournal.com
  Good Afternoon,The Kennedy Center is closed, fenced, and flashing “Emergency alert” where the show listings used to be (Washington Post). The president says it gets “ripped down” unless his name goes on it (ABC News), and photographers caught him aboard Air Force One studying a poster reading “Kennedy Center DEMOLISHED” (The New York Times). The Atlantic calls it a shakedown: the leverage isn’t law, it’s the board’s affection for the institut
  
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• Photogs Get Picture Of Trump Studying Headlines About Demolishing Kenned Center

  17-09-2026 21:18 via nytimes.com
  Late Wednesday night, photojournalists captured images through the windows of Air Force One that showed President Trump reviewing a large poster board with what looked like a rendering of a construction site beneath three very visible words: “Kennedy Center DEMOLISHED.” – The New York Times
  
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• Singapore Is Paying Its People To Read Books

  17-09-2026 21:03 via theguardian.com
  “Under the scheme, readers accrue points that can be redeemed for a few cents. People will have to log 50 daily reading sessions (of 15 minutes or more) on a government website to earn S$1 (80 cents US). … One reading session is allowed daily.” – The Guardian
  
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• AI Companies Are Destroying Books. What Does That Mean For Art?

  17-09-2026 20:31 via artnews.com
  
  AI companies, after losing copyright lawsuits over using pirated books found in digital formats, found a way forward, since the law doesn’t prohibit them from buying physical books and destroying them. In another ironic twist, they are looking only for books printed before 2022, because they want books that definitely have not been produced using AI. – ARTnews
  
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• How Marcello Angelini Remade Tulsa Ballet

  17-09-2026 20:02 via tulsaflyer.org
  
  “During Angelini’s (31-year) tenure as artistic director, Tulsa Ballet has grown from a well-regarded regional troupe — best known for its efforts to preserve the Ballet Russe traditions championed by its founders, Roman Jasinski and Moscelyne Larkin — into a versatile dance company that many critics consider among the best in the United States.” – Tulsa Flyer
  
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• Journalism Inside Libraries

  17-09-2026 19:44 via niemanlab.org
  “I once described the larger ambition as opening 16,000 community-led newsrooms, one in every public library in the country.” Now he believes the goal should be “creating 16,000 places where neighbors can look more closely at where they live and make something public from what they find.” – NiemanLab
  
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• London Philharmonic Survey: Interest In Orchestral Music Is Up, Particularly Among Young People

  17-09-2026 19:27 via gramophone.co.uk
  The RPO findings show that there is a rising interest among young people – the nationally representative poll of 2,000 adults revealing that 89 per cent of adults would be interested in attending a concert or performance featuring classical or orchestral music. This figure is up from 79 per cent in 2018. – Gramophone
  
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• What Happens Now For The Kennedy Center?

  17-09-2026 19:15 via msn.com
  Outside, digital signs that typically advertise upcoming performances instead flashed a red “Emergency alert” announcing the building was closed to the public. Guards stood at the doors. On Wednesday, fencing was erected around the building. – Washington Post
  
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• Madrid’s Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum To Add A Second Location

  17-09-2026 19:04 via artnews.com
  
  Because of overcrowding in the main building’s galleries, the museum will acquire an additional space a few blocks away: the Ice and Automobile Palace, which has been vacant since 2007 and will undergo a €70 million ($81 million) renovation.  When it opens, the new branch will display 21st-century works. – ARTnews
  
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• Why Academic History Matters

  17-09-2026 18:44 via historytoday.com
  Academic history matters. It matters for honing critical engagement, for challenging all-encompassing technological vapidity, for strengthening individuality. It matters because it shows us that process cannot be separated from what we produce. – History Today
  
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• FCC Says It Could Earn Billions From New Wireless Spectrum Auctions

  17-09-2026 18:15 via reuters.com
   Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr said Wednesday that a series of upcoming wireless spectrum auctions ​over the next couple of years could generate more than $100 billion in proceeds. – Reuters
  
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• What Happens To Warner Bros. If The Paramount Merger Falls Apart?

  17-09-2026 18:01 via msn.com
  “To be clear, the deal collapsing wouldn’t be fatal to Warner Bros. Discovery. CEO David Zaslav would walk away with a $7 billion break-up fee that could offer additional flexibility as an independent company. But experts who spoke to TheWrap are skeptical that management would continue to go it alone long-term.” – TheWrap (MSN)
  
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• American Music at 250 – Take 9: Can an Orchestra Still Embody the Soul of a City? Gustavo Dudamel and the New York Philharmonic

  17-09-2026 17:52 via artsjournal.com
  
  The current issue of “The New York Review of Books” includes my essay on state of American orchestras
  
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• Spaceship Lucas: LA’s New Museum Of Narrative Art

  17-09-2026 17:44 via wsj.com
  It is a Goliath of a building, 700 feet long with 300,000 square feet of space. In terms of massiveness, visual impact and sheer joyous bravado, it offers as much spectacle as any of his films. But it is not so much its size that amazes, but its uncanny shape. – The Wall Street Journal
  
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• Inside The Unraveling Of The Ed Sheeran Tour

  17-09-2026 17:44 via wsj.com
  How Sheeran, a musician known for his crowd-pleasing, inoffensive everyman appeal, landed in this situation illustrates the hazards of planning a lucrative, global music tour at a time of intense geopolitical unrest and cultural division over violent conflicts. – The Wall Street Journal
  
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• Trump’s Shakedown Of The Kennedy Center

  17-09-2026 17:31 via theatlantic.com
  
  “Trump is taking the Center hostage and threatening to in effect kill it unless he gets his way.” The president is counting on the board’s civic spirit and affection for the institution—neither of which he evidently possesses—to strong-arm it into giving him what the law and courts would not allow. – The Atlantic
  
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• Trump Administration Wants To Put Up Signs Accusing The Smithsonian Of Bias

  17-09-2026 17:15 via theatlantic.com
  
  The Trump administration is currently preparing temporary signs that will accuse the National Museum of American History of ideological bias, according to a letter I obtained sent by Interior Secretary Doug Burgum. – The Atlantic
  
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• Art in the Room where it happens

  14-09-2026 23:34 via artsjournal.com
  Good Morning,Culture needs a room, but who controls the room? San Francisco Opera’s musicians struck opening night at 7:25 p.m., with patrons already in their seats for an 8 o’clock curtain (The New York Times). Now that’s a power statement. Across the country, Lonnie Bunch concluded the White House intended to take the Smithsonian in a direction he couldn’t go and resigned, calculating that giving up the office was the price of keeping the institution (The New York Times
  
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• Ready to Lead What’s Next in the Creative Industries?

  14-09-2026 21:42 via artsjournal.com
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• San Francisco Opera Musicians Strike Opening Night Just As Curtain Was Supposed To Go Up

  14-09-2026 21:01 via nytimes.com
  At 7:25 p.m., leaders of the opera walked onstage and told the patrons settling into their seats for an 8 p.m. performance that the opera had been canceled. An outdoor performance set for Sunday at Golden Gate Park, part of the opening festivities, was also called off. – The New York Times
  
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• This Year’s Emmy Nominees Are In

  14-09-2026 20:31 via televisionacademy.com
  The full list here. – Television Academy
  
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• Colburn seeks Assistant Vice President of Performance & Rentals Marketing

  14-09-2026 20:15 via artsjournal.com
  Organization Located in the heart of downtown Los Angeles along the city’s renowned Grand Avenue cultural corridor, Colburn is an internationally recognized performing arts institution dedicated to providing the highest quality music and dance education while enriching the broader community through exceptional performances, artistic experiences, and community engagement. Serving more than 2,000 students annually, from young beginners to emerging professionals, Colburn encompasses the Conse
  
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• Fashion Designer Bob Mackie, 87

  14-09-2026 20:00 via latimes.com
  
  Prolific costume designer Bob Mackie, whose dynamic sparkling and fringed creations dressed pop culture superstars such as Cher, Diana Ross, Dolly Parton, Beyoncé and Miley Cyrus, has died. – Los Angeles Times
  
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