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PITTSBURGH BALLET THEATRE (PBT) invites qualified candidates to submit applications to become its next Artistic Director.
The orchestra names Chad Smith new chief executive of the orchestra, succeeding Simon Woods. "In a sign of how awkward the upheaval has been, and how quickly the change of leadership was put…
Richard Brody: "Though he didn't have the most immediately recognizable or ravishing sound at the keyboard, he succeeded in revising, by way of scholarly passion, the very basis for pianisti…
"The Minneapolis Institute of Art named an art expert with a entrepreneurial past Tuesday as its next director and president: Katherine Luber, of the San Antonio Museum of Art. … Luber, wh…
Bing Crosby sings a medley of "Pennies from Heaven," "The Second Time Around," and "In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening" on The Bob Hope Chrysler Special, originally telecast by NBC on…
"The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who …
After cutting the mass market paperback and graphic novel/manga lists in 2017, the Times' Best Sellers team will again track mass market paperback sales, as well as debut a combined list for…
The president's project, called 1000 Cafés and run by a nonprofit called Groupe SOS, will receive up to €200 million from the French government to open new cafés, or prop up struggli…
The publishers' attorney, said that Captions"a feature that scrolls a few words of an AI-generated transcription alongside a digital audiobook as it plays"represents a "quintessential" case …
Brown, at age 87 still the company's artistic director, will remain at least through next year's 50th anniversary celebrations, but she has turned over the executive director position, on an…
Interest in sound therapy has soared in tandem with renewed global curiosity about cosmic energy and spirituality. Case in point, sales of "healing crystals" have doubled in the previo…
"Beyond her acting, her greatest legacy may be how she influenced generations of actors, teaching at HB Studio and writing two books that are popular with acting students across the globe. R…
"When I say that mathematics is seen as not having a history, I mean that mathematical truths are supposedly eternal, they're unchanging, it doesn't matter the context, it doesn't matter the…
Mind you, this isn't a question of mime or dance. Chris Jones considers the implications of The King's Speech, in which Britain's King George VI learns to use his voice properly, and Lucas H…
"A new [survey] by the Pew Research Center … found that 20% of adults listened to an audiobook in the 12 months prior to the period in which the survey was conducted. In 2011, only 11% of …
The violinist was playing the slow movement of the Beethoven concerto with the Cincinnati Symphony when she saw a woman recording with an iPhone in the front row. "With the phone such a few …
Speaking on the podcast Coffee With Kenobi, the executive producers of the chidren's animated series Star Wars Resistance said of the characters Orka and Flix, "I think it's safe to say they…
What's being done with the rubble, the windows, and the stabilization of the walls; who is, and who will be, running the restoration effort; what the next steps will be; and the general phil…
Introduced by Ed Sullivan as "the greatest I've ever seen in his field," Nelson, with his puppet sidekicks Danny O'Day and Farfel the hound dog, performed on television variety shows and in …
Reporting to the Board of Directors, the new Executive Director will lead a non-profit organization with a $5M+ annual budget, a year-round staff of ~60 people, 90 seasonal staff, hundreds o…
The museum's collection of archival film and photos, maps, letters, posters, and pamphlets focuses on two heroes of de Gaulle's Free French movement: the former préfet Jean Moulin and Gener…
One of my Twitter followers asked over the weekend if I'd post a list of my favorite film scores. This is, needless to say, an impossible task, but I did spend a few minutes drawing up the f…
From 2009: What makes Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong different from all previous Armstrong biographies?… Read the whole thing here.
"Reality does not discuss, it simply is." Milan Kundera, Life Is Elsewhere (trans. Peter Kussi)
Heidi Hall, an old friend of mine from Smalltown, U.S.A., died last week. She was 49, far too young for so extravagantly vital a woman to lose her life to cancer. I, on the other hand, am 63…
