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Here’s what Seattle Opera’s first artistic ambassador aims to do
When opera singer Kenneth Kellogg speaks, you listen. You can’t help it. It’s startlingly similar to what happens when he stands on opera stages — all 6 feet, 5 inches of him — and bellows in his sonorous bass-baritone; you are…
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Anne Midgette: Calling Out Fake Concern In The Classical Music Industry
“I will truly believe you mean your support and sympathy when I stop seeing ads featuring these people as star attractions at your concerts; when you offer the same protections and sympathy to victims of your own institutions that…
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A Marathon Reading: Gertrude Stein’s The Making of Americans
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Hit-and-run tourism is tearing the heart out of Florence – there is a better way | Cecilie Hollberg
Florence is an exquisite city. Because of its history and its cultural heritage as the cradle of the Italian Renaissance, it is unique, precious and very fragile. The historic centre – a Unesco world heritage site – occupies a very small…
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Brooklyn Museum Names Cellist Niles Luther First Composer In Residence
New York–based classical cellist Niles Luther is the Brooklyn Museum’s first-ever composer in residence.
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During his residency, supported by a…
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The Life and Death of Hollywood, by Daniel Bessner
In 2012, at the age of thirty-two, the writer Alena Smith went West to Hollywood, like many before her. She arrived to a small apartment in Silver…
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Russian ballet show in South Korea cancelled amid Ukraine tensions
A ballet performance in South Korea featuring dancers from Russia's Bolshoi Ballet was cancelled abruptly, the organisers confirmed to AFP Tuesday, amid growing tensions between Seoul and Moscow over Ukraine and North Korea.The Russian…
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The Movement to Remove Renoir From Museums
What’s the deal with Leonardo’s harpsichord-viola? Why were Impressionists obsessed with the color purple? Art Bitesbrings you a surprising fact, lesser-known anecdote, or curious event from…
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Benin Republic turns to culture to spur economic growth
The Republic of Benin, which is making its debut appearance at the Venice Biennale this year, is turning to culture as part of a strategy to spur economic growth. Its government is building four new museums in a range of locations and a…
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How King’s College Added 438 Solar Panels to a 500-Year-Old Chapel | Smart News
Workers install solar panels on the roof of King's College Chapel in Cambridge, England.
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