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Friday, November 10, 2017
under no circumstances should you ask me about...
It is something of a landmark occasion when your Erstwhile Area of Inquiry ventures into your morning commute to the Borg Cube via a mention in The Writer's Almanac, but hey, it's the 21st century, and it's the guy's 258th birthday. So for that, here's your Random Don Carlos Trailer of the Week, courtesy of Epik Hotel
Saturday, October 10, 2015
Get into the Elevator with Webern
What We Hate Now, apparently, and some fairly dodgy assertions as to why:
One could say a lot about the fundamental assumptions underlying this study, but for now let's just say that if they're going to do studies like this, they really need to do them in Sociology Departments that actually know something about music.
Questionable notions resulting in the conflation of "folk" (whatever that is) and "country" (whenever that is) aside, one thing orchestra marketing departments might learn from this odd little exercise is to ditch this absurd idea that classical music can and should be marketed as "relaxing". Market it as what it is -- complex and awesome and all over the map -- and maybe you'll still have an audience in thirty years.
One could say a lot about the fundamental assumptions underlying this study, but for now let's just say that if they're going to do studies like this, they really need to do them in Sociology Departments that actually know something about music.
Questionable notions resulting in the conflation of "folk" (whatever that is) and "country" (whenever that is) aside, one thing orchestra marketing departments might learn from this odd little exercise is to ditch this absurd idea that classical music can and should be marketed as "relaxing". Market it as what it is -- complex and awesome and all over the map -- and maybe you'll still have an audience in thirty years.
Thursday, July 23, 2015
Mrs Pankhurst pwns your number
I'm supposed to be at Glimmerglass right now, but the bug that kept me out of Old Songs back in June has devolved into an annoyingly persistent cough and so, yeah, no. So yay the 'Glass for being willing to do a ticket swap. Now it's off to the Medical/Industrial Complex to see if I can ditch this thing, because
is next on the agenda. Apart from the obvious attractions of the work, I confess I'm really interested to see how Leon threads the needle on this one, because remember that panel discussion a few years back when he argued that women writers in the 19th century didn't suffer discrimination in publishing because, look, Mary Wollstonecraft! Jane Austen! George Eliot! and one was all like Um...? So either Dame Ethel has afforded him a Come to Jesus moment, so to speak, on the Woman Question (i.e. that there actually was one) or I've (more likely) missed some nuance of his argument all along. Panel discussion! Bring it on!
is next on the agenda. Apart from the obvious attractions of the work, I confess I'm really interested to see how Leon threads the needle on this one, because remember that panel discussion a few years back when he argued that women writers in the 19th century didn't suffer discrimination in publishing because, look, Mary Wollstonecraft! Jane Austen! George Eliot! and one was all like Um...? So either Dame Ethel has afforded him a Come to Jesus moment, so to speak, on the Woman Question (i.e. that there actually was one) or I've (more likely) missed some nuance of his argument all along. Panel discussion! Bring it on!
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Dog Days in Annandale
Bard Music Festival is scoping Saint-Saëns this year, but since this festival is always "Composer Y and His World" (I think they have yet to do a "Composer X and Her World", not surprisingly), there's a lot of other stuff going on for the "World" part. So it's worth it to click on the little Browse the Brochure doodad in the left hand column to get the opera (Chabrier), the play (Molière), the film festival (France & the Colonial Imagination), and the Spiegeltent dope as well as the concerts, lectures and panel discussions. Or you can start from here if you don't mind some cumbersome web navigation.
On a totally unrelated note, the Met will be streaming the Makropulos Case prima here on Friday at 8:30 ET.
On a totally unrelated note, the Met will be streaming the Makropulos Case prima here on Friday at 8:30 ET.
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
I suggested rebranding it "Nano-Classics"...
Two Quotes of the Day, from Mary Beard in the NYRB:
"What I have stressed so far is our engagement with our predecessors through their engagement with the classics. The slightly different spin on that would be to say that it would be impossible now to understand Dante without Virgil, John Stuart Mill without Plato, Donna Tartt without Euripides, Rattigan without Aeschylus. I’m not sure if this amounts to a prediction about the future; but I would say that if we were to amputate the classics from the modern world, it would mean more than closing down some university departments and consigning Latin grammar to the scrap heap. It would mean bleeding wounds in the body of Western culture—and a dark future of misunderstanding."
[Though she says she doesn't think this will happen. I'm not so sure, meself.]
"...The overall strength of the classics is not to be measured by exactly how many young people know Latin and Greek from high school or university. It is better measured by asking how many believe that there should be people in the world who do know Latin and Greek, how many people think that there is an expertise in that worth taking seriously—and ultimately paying for."
Read the full commentary here.
It may be worth noting that the year before SUNY Albany famously axed Classics, it had more than seventy Latin 101 students, up from twelve when I took it in the 90's. Whatev. Curse the gold-giver.
"What I have stressed so far is our engagement with our predecessors through their engagement with the classics. The slightly different spin on that would be to say that it would be impossible now to understand Dante without Virgil, John Stuart Mill without Plato, Donna Tartt without Euripides, Rattigan without Aeschylus. I’m not sure if this amounts to a prediction about the future; but I would say that if we were to amputate the classics from the modern world, it would mean more than closing down some university departments and consigning Latin grammar to the scrap heap. It would mean bleeding wounds in the body of Western culture—and a dark future of misunderstanding."
[Though she says she doesn't think this will happen. I'm not so sure, meself.]
"...The overall strength of the classics is not to be measured by exactly how many young people know Latin and Greek from high school or university. It is better measured by asking how many believe that there should be people in the world who do know Latin and Greek, how many people think that there is an expertise in that worth taking seriously—and ultimately paying for."
Read the full commentary here.
It may be worth noting that the year before SUNY Albany famously axed Classics, it had more than seventy Latin 101 students, up from twelve when I took it in the 90's. Whatev. Curse the gold-giver.
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
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