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The Phoenix Symphony will lay off its 66 musicians on November 2 though revenues rose more than 50 percent in two years; endowment gifts are restricted and can’t pay operating costs (Fox 10). San Francisco’s artist grants normally arrive within four weeks of July agreements; in October documentary filmmaker Susannah Smith was still borrowing from her mother for rent (San Francisco Chronicle).
Caryl Churchill’s Triumph, 20 minutes long at London’s Almeida Theatre, takes its emperor’s cruelties from Suetonius and gives his press officer a blond wig and an American accent (The Guardian). Lucy Guerin, who founded Melbourne’s Lucy Guerin Inc 25 years ago, danced publicly for the first time in 13 years before handing the company to Melanie Lane; she thought she could still do the arabesque (The Guardian).
Elliott Management, the hedge fund that owns Barnes & Noble and Waterstones, is expected to take both public next year at $3 billion or more, fifteen years after Amazon was supposed to devour chains like them; James Daunt runs both (The New Yorker).
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