Good Morning,
Sonny Rollins is gone at 95 — one of the last giants of the bebop era, the colossus who kept reinventing his own sound long after he’d earned the right to coast (AP).
Reinvention is the day’s other thread, this time at the institutional level. Anthony Roth Costanzo took over Opera Philadelphia at a time when the company was three weeks from missing payroll, bet the company on $11 pay-what-you-wish tickets, and is now sitting on a cash surplus (The New York Times). Philadelphia’s Wilma Theater, meanwhile, is quietly ending its three-artistic-director experiment and handing the company back to a single leader (The Philadelphia Inquirer). And the Art Newspaper punctures a cherished assumption: dropping admission fees, it turns out, might not actually bring more people through the door of American museums(The Art Newspaper).
The LA Phil finally hired a music director — Daniel Harding, conductor and part-time Air France pilot, takes the podium in 2027 (Los Angeles Times). And in Paris, the artist know as JR has turned the Pont Neuf into a 120-meter stone grotto (Artnet).
All of our stories below. See you tomorrow.
Doug
