For First Time, Boston Symphony Will Have Female CEO
"In picking [Gail Samuel], the orchestra looked west, to one of the most successful American orchestras of recent years" " the Los Angeles Philharmonic, where she is COO " "for its choice to…
"In picking [Gail Samuel], the orchestra looked west, to one of the most successful American orchestras of recent years" " the Los Angeles Philharmonic, where she is COO " "for its choice to…
"Despite being indoors (a red flag), the sort of behavior engaged in at the movies is, relatively speaking, benign. Patrons who can and should wear a mask for the duration of their visit fac…
"Zhang and his co-authors reported high levels of statistical significance for their finding, but the reported differences in the effects of violent games versus nonviolent games were too sm…
Back in 2014, when the EU passed a law allowing people to petition Google to de-index old news stories about them (e.g., criminal convictions or embarrassing incident from youth that became …
"When young children make art together with their caregivers, they share a new experience which can reinforce bonding. Creativity is an extension of babies' natural desire to share and commu…
More than a year after it began its search for a new president and chief executive, the Boston Symphony Orchestra is expected to announce on Thursday that it has found a new leader on the op…
"A functioning market required transparency, a mutual understanding of exchanges and a shared moral framework. And, as Rana Foroohar puts it in this brief animation for the Royal Society of …
"A century ago, samba becoming synonymous with Brazil's cultural identity would have seemed impossible. In the early 20th century, Rio's ruling elite were ashamed and afraid of the rhythm, w…
MPs at the digital, culture, media and sport committee hearing told DCMS minister Caroline Dinenage that her department was treated as an "afterthought" by the government, and that during Br…
"You feel the weight of the famous Palais Garnier opera house itself, and the history and legacy of the legendary dancers who have performed there. And then there's the pressure of expectati…
There had always been rumors, and a few hints in surviving records, that there had been a hammam where the CervercerÃa Giralda now stands, but most people (including the owners) shrugged …
The initiative combines entertainment metadata with Nielsen's audience measurement data. It's designed to equip content creators, owners, distributors and advertisers with data around onscre…
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A Broadway stage manager who's now in graduate school for (logically) organizational leadership project management: "I initially thought, well, I'll get a class or two under my belt and then…
True? Film has always had marketing, PR, and of course ratings: "It would be a mistake to present the old gatekeepers in romantic colours compared to new technology companies. In both cases,…
Vertenstein, a Holocaust survivor, was 93 when she died earlier this month. She "began giving lessons at age 14 in war-torn Romania. She did not stop for nearly 80 years. Toward the end, ada…
Issues: "Change will feel snail-like as long as white organizational leaders, tenured professors, board members, and funders control and dictate, the pace of inclusion and the adoption of an…
This sounds wildly exotic and dangerous to most theatregoers in the U.S. right now: "A few days ago, Kylie Estreich went to a theater in Sydney to see a Broadway show. In person. With hundre…
This is a twisty, turny saga that does not in any way make the original media empire " Bon Appetit, of course " look any better, but the public peeling of "problematic media property" layers…
In 1917, Warner Bros. had eight films directed by women. In 2017, it had … one. What the heck? Well, for one thing: "Female-focused stories that perform well at the box office are repeated…
Davis "presided over the field during boon years in New York in the 1960s and '70s, when performances were plentiful and tickets relatively cheap, and when the ups and downs of a performer's…
Members of De La Soul were, suddenly, characters on Teen Titans Go!, where in one episode, "the plot revolves around a fraught real-life issue: the ownership and availability of the group's …
A new emphasis has also changed how design firms feel about commissions. "For the new guard of playground design, the boundary between play equipment and public sculpture is blurring. … Pl…
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association has some issues, with members describing monthly meetings as battle zones. The HFPA includes zero Black members. It's "an embattled organization still…
The register of Jewish burials in the Romanian city of Cluj-Napoca between 1836 and 1899, is one of very few documents left after more than 18,000 Hungarian-speaking Jews were deported from …