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Musicians Drive Emmanuelle Haim From Paris Opera Podium The harpsichordist-turned-conductor, who founded her own period-instrument band, Le Concert d'Astrée, had been scheduled to lead a revival of Idomeneo at the Opéra last month; about a week before opening, she withdrew. It turns out that the pit orchestra had mutinied against Haïm, finding her beat impossible to follow - and they've said so publicly. Le Monde via Ionarts 02/18/10 British Author's Estate Sues JK Rowling For Potter Plagiaism “The estate of the late Adrian Jacobs on Wednesday added Rowling as a defendant in a lawsuit it filed in June against Bloomsbury Publishing PLC for alleged copyright infringement, according to a statement released by the estate's representatives, who are based in Australia." Chicago Tribune 02/19/10 Canadian Association Of Broadcasters To Shut Down After reviewing its strategy, the organization concluded that local TV operators wouldn't be able to find a common ground with the cable companies. CBC 02/19/10 Study: CreativityAs A Humanitarian Act "Newly published research suggests that, at least in the business world, the link between inspiration and ingenuity is strengthened by focusing on the needs of others." Miller-McCune 02/17/10 Does Explaining Contemporary Art Ruin It? "In a finding sure to evoke concern and curiosity among curators, newly published research suggests presenting contextual information alongside a work of modern art may be counterproductive in terms of eliciting enjoyment or appreciation." Miller-McCune 02/17/10 We've Become Too Used To Henry Moore "[It] can be difficult to judge the reputation of Henry Moore, in his own lifetime one of the most famous and wealthy artists in the world. It's not that Moore has vanished from the public stage in the years since his death in 1986 - far from it, in fact. Moore's problem is that he has become so ubiquitous as to become near-invisible." The Guardian (UK) 02/18/10 Kathryn Grayson, 88, Star Of MGM Musicals Her "operatic voice and campus-sweetheart beauty embodied the glamour of Hollywood movie musicals in the 1940s and '50s" - films such as Anchors Aweigh, Show Boat and Kiss Me Kate. New York Times 02/19/10 Florida Dance Festival Quits Miami, Returns To Tampa "In 1998, when the Florida Dance Festival moved from Tampa to Miami, some observers worried that dance students from around the state would not follow. Those worries proved to be correct, and the festival is returning to the University of South Florida in Tampa in June." St. Petersburg Times (Fla.) 02/19/10 Escondido, Cal. Arts Center Saved "Escondido arts patrons were reassured yesterday that the California Center for the Arts will not be closed because of drastic budget cuts. The news from the City Council was prompted by a deluge of about 200 e-mails that arts supporters sent to council members, pleading with them to keep the center open.' San Diego Union Tribune 02/18/10 "For the first time, brain imaging has linked chronic insomnia to lower gray matter density in areas that regulate the brain's ability to make decisions and to rest." Discovery News 02/16/10 Musicians Drive Emmanuelle Haim From Paris Opera Podium The harpsichordist-turned-conductor, who founded her own period-instrument band, Le Concert d'Astrée, had been scheduled to lead a revival of Idomeneo at the Opéra last month; about a week before opening, she withdrew. It turns out that the pit orchestra had mutinied against Haïm, finding her beat impossible to follow - and they've said so publicly. Le Monde via Ionarts 02/18/10 The Archetypical Valery Gergiev Interview "I have a concert in six minutes and should change my clothes," said the maestro over the phone from his dressing room at the Vienna Musikverein. (The interview had already been postponed several times that day.) Not for nothing is the new documentary about Gergiev titled You Cannot Start Without Me. Philadelphia Inquirer 02/18/10 Movie Stars Take Over Paris Stages (Just Like On Broadway) Audrey Tautou, star of Amélie, is making her stage debut as Nora in Ibsen's A Doll's House; Isabelle Huppert is acting up a storm as Blanche in a controversial adaptation of A Streetcar Named Desire; Leslie Caron is featured in a brief run of A Little Night Music; even soccer-star-turned-movie-actor Eric Cantona has turned up in a play. Agence France-Presse 02/18/10 Unnamed Angel Provides Hundreds Of Free Tickets To Colorado Ballet "An anonymous donor has purchased $100,000 in tickets to Colorado Ballet's production of Beauty and the Beast for use by disadvantaged Denver families." Denver Post 02/19/10 Jonathan Miller Is Being (Relatively) Good-Natured In a change from recent practice, the doctor-turned-opera director says nice things about both Covent Garden and ENO, talks clearly about how he works, and never once threatens to quit directing - he even says it's fun. (Don't worry, he still disses a few colleagues and whinges: e.g., "I find myself between two millstones of idiocy.") The Arts Desk (UK) 02/12/10 Women On The Verge Of A Lincoln Center Musical A musical theater adaptation of Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, the 1988 comedy that made filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar world-famous, will be a centerpiece of Lincoln Center Theater's 2010-11 season. Director Bartlett Sher and Almodóvar have been developing the piece in workshops for over a year. New York Times 02/19/10 Erotic Reverie Increases Brain Power, Creativity "Fantasizing about sex gets more than just your juices flowing - it also boosts your analytical thinking skills. Daydreaming about love, on the other hand, makes you more creative, according to a study published in the November 2009 Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin." Scientific American Mind 03/10 'The Arts' Get The Davos Treatment "The World Economic Forum convened a panel discussion at Carnegie Hall Thursday on arts leadership. The focus? 'The role and responsibilities of cultural leaders and institutions in the collaborative process of development solutions to a number of challenges affecting the world'. Hmmm." (Pithiest observation: "People pay for entertainment. Art is subsidized.") New York Times 02/18/10 Gordon Lightfoot Is Not Dead (Twitter Notwithstanding) A hoax message saying that the Canadian folk-rock singer had died appeared on Twitter Thursday afternoon; the story spread fast and ran on several Canadian news services before it emerged that, in fact, Lightfoot had merely gone to the dentist's office. Vancouver Sun/Canwest 02/18/10
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Oxford Professor Of Poetry Race Begins Anew After last year's ugly contest between Ruth Padel and Derek Walcott, Oxford University "opened nominations today to find a new candidate for the 300-year-old position, seen as the most prestigious in poetry behind that of the poet laureate." The Guardian (UK) 02/18/10 Fresno Museum's Property Auction Draws Hundreds "More than 600 lots containing items such as office furniture, science exhibits and lighting fixtures" -- and some art, too -- "were sold in a sometimes dramatic auction held beneath a large tent on the former museum's grounds. The museum's art collection will be sold later." Unless, of course, a legal challenge to the sale prevails. Fresno Bee 02/17/10 10 Branches, 25% Of BPL Staff May Be On Chopping Block "Amy E. Ryan, the [Boston Public Library's] president, said yesterday that because of steep budget cuts the only alternative to closings would be slashing hours at 18 library branches, with the smallest facilities open only one to three days a week." The BPL has 26 neighborhood branches. Boston Globe 02/18/10 The Curious Dullness Of Season Announcements "[I]t's relatively rare that a[n] orchestra's season announcement generates genuine excitement. They're received, often, with the mien of a greedy child: what are you giving us, and how good is it, and are you playing my favorite piece?" Washington Post 02/18/10 Is Performance Capture Acting Or Animation? "[U]nlike the great majority of best picture nominees, the 'Avatar' actors have not nabbed a single major critic's award, or guild prize. The snubs reflect the apparent ambivalence of the film community -- especially actors -- to 'Avatar' and its revolutionary use of 'performance capture'...." Los Angeles Times 02/18/10 Seattle's ACT Tries A New Model: 'Like A Gym Membership' "In addition to its traditional season subscriptions and individual ticket sales, ACT launched a membership program. For $25 a month, members can see anything at ACT, as often as they like." KUOW (Seattle) 02/10/10 The Enduring Greatness Of Django Reinhardt "The legacy of Django Reinhardt enjoys a currency that those of comparable jazz icons do not. In recent months, the centennials of both Lester Young and Art Tatum came and went almost unnoticed, but Reinhardt," whose centennial was last month, "is omnipresent--more so than during his lifetime." Wall Street Journal 02/18/10 Eight Years In The Making, A Wrinkle In Time For The Stage South Coast Rep "associate artistic director John Glore became intrigued with the story of a pair of children who travel through time to save their father, after his then-9-year-old daughter made a shoe box diorama of a scene in which Meg finds her father imprisoned in a cell by the dreaded 'it.'" Los Angeles Times 02/18/10 Is Racial Diversity In Broadcast TV Having A Breakthrough? "Halfway through the castings of broadcast drama pilots this season, the top-billed actors on four pilots are non-Caucasian. What's more, the four projects are among the highest-profile drama pilots this year." Hollywood Reporter 02/16/10 Appreciation: Poet Lucille Clifton National Book Award-winning poet Lucille Clifton died Saturday at 73. "Clifton had six children and made poems not in 'a room of one's own' but, rather, at the proverbial kitchen table, with family life proceeding around her. 'Why do you think my poems are so short?' she would often say, with a laugh...." The New Yorker 02/17/10 Huck Finn, Victim Of His Own Sales Power? Ever since he bought a trio of Huck Finn Cabbage Patch dolls in the 1980s, a UCLA English professor has been amassing a collection of "knickknacks, toys and Huck-themed gadgets" -- not because he likes them but in order "to show students how commercialism sold one of American literature's most enduring characters down the river." Los Angeles Times 02/18/10 MoMA's Exhibition Design Guy, Making Vision Reality Apple E-Books Might Not Be So Costly Look Left To Pause The Music, Roll Eyes To Up The Volume New headphones that respond to eye movements "look much like regular earbuds, connected by a cable to a phone. They sense the movements of the eyeballs by measuring tiny changes in electric charge." Associated Press 02/17/10
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