Art and Culture

The American Youth Symphony was on the threshold of its 60th anniversary. Carlos Izcaray, music director since 2016, had just signed a contract that extended his tenure through 2027. The orchestra was preparing to release a recording,…
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Composer cycles offer audiences – and artists – a way of experiencing a composer's work in its 'purest' form. Claire Jackson talks to the musicians getting under the skin of Sibelius, Shostakovich, Wagner and…
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British museums are in dire need of extra funding. Neither government nor philanthropists will make up the shortfall. There’s only one solution: it’s time to think the unthinkable and dump the British art world’s gold-plated,…
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Joining SlatorPod this week is Steven Piantadosi, Associate Professor of Psychology at UC Berkeley. Steven also runs the computation and language lab (colala) at UC Berkeley, which studies the basic computational processes involved in…
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When Gustavo Dudamel stepped on the stage of Walt Disney Concert Hall last week to conduct his Los Angeles Philharmonic for the first time in three months, a big smile was on his face and the usual cheers came from the large audience…
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In a development that could put Worcester in the center of a world-wide cultural map for a decade or more, Music Worcester will perform all of 18th century German Baroque composer Johann Sebastian Bach's more than 1,000 compositions…
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A Senate inquiry into Labor’s national cultural policy has called on the government to provide urgent additional funding to keep the floundering music festivals sector afloat.The interim report into the cultural policy, released on…
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The British Board of Film Classification has been busy.Last year, the group rerated more than 30 older films to meet contemporary standards. In February, it gave a stricter rating to “Mary Poppins” because of racial slurs. And last week,…
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A few years ago when Patti Smith played at a cultural festival in Denmark, she told the crowd that she was happy to be playing in the presence of one of her favourite authors. It was said she had only agreed to play the festival because…
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