Art and Culture

The group Fossil Free Books called for literary festivals to end their relationships with the company unless it divested from such activities, after The Ferret found it had up to £5bn invested in companies which make money from the…
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Teaching Artist and Director of the Paterson Music Project (PMP) Shanna Lin gives us the program’s history: it’s an El Sistema-inspired program established in 2013 with 32 second graders and now serves over 500 students from 25 schools…
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Mira Nadon was 5 when she took her first ballet class. It was pre-ballet, which meant running around the studio, maybe getting a shot at fluttering like a butterfly. This was not for her.When she found out that students began proper…
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — An uneasy orchestral prelude sets the mood: muffled percussion, brooding woodwinds, anguished strings. The curtain rises and the first voices we hear are of two young men…
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A scene from SF Opera’s Innocence | Credit: Cory WeaverSeveral years ago, Ryan Marchand, director of diversity, equity, and community at San Francisco Opera, saw American Son, a Broadway play set in a Florida police station where a…
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Kelli O’Hara, Renee Fleming, and Joyce DiDonato in “The Hours” In response to my two-day-old blog about the Met’s “worst ever” Carmen, a prominent European artists’ manager wrote (in an email): “If you would have been forced – as…
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ABOUT THE GRAND THEATRE The Grand Theatre is known for world-class theatre created and built in London, Ontario. As southwest Ontario’s premiere producing theatre and one of the most beautiful theatre spaces in Canada, the company…
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“Casting, casting, casting is the obvious answer,” writes Charles McNulty, “though there’s a bit more to it than that.” Friedman and star Jonathan Groff explain. – Los Angeles Times (MSN) Source link
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“When was the last time you passed a worksite and heard their radio playing music that had something to do with their work, or with the rhythm and tempo of their work? Music has become detached—or, to use a Marxist term,…
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