There was a point at which a number of African-American composers were writing serious, important work, writes Joseph Horowitz. "Racial prejudice, personal and institutional, obviously inhib…
"The music itself is not the problem, in fact it's what we do best"it's our core product. Yet so many organizations think that if we change the product, it will help the bottom line, but it …
"It turns out that there are a lot of forces converging to make this shape ideal, and to get the whole picture, we'll have to look from three angles: the anatomy of a reader, the history of …
How serious is the gap between experience and the words we have? Serious. The need to render experience for others is tied to a need for others to understand us, and when unfulfilled, leaves…
"Recently I was asked to present a lecture on composer Julius Eastman and his work at the OBEY Convention, a music and sound festival in Halifax, Nova Scotia. But rather than a fruitful disc…
Ntozake Shange's For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf "has been part of the canon since it became a Broadway hit in 1976. Still, [the play] doesn't get a lo…
"Jenet Le Lacheur " a transfeminine Brit who earned recognition, before coming out, in the West End production of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child " has … [recently starred] as Hamlet in …
The thirty-seventh episode of Three on the Aisle, the (usually) twice-monthly podcast in which Peter Marks, Elisabeth Vincentelli, and I talk about theater in America, is now available on…
"In a move that will be welcome news to publishers and other rights holders, advocate general Maciej Szpunar has ruled sites such as Tom Kabinet that sell second-hand ebooks 'unlawful under …
Davis, now 77, will have been music director and principal conductor at Lyric for 21 years when he retires at the end of next season (2020-21) Succeeding him will be Italian conductor Enriqu…
"The state has reached the benchmark for 'universal arts education access', meaning each one of its public schools provides some type of school-based arts instruction during the school day f…
"The ancient city of Hasankeyf, which sits on the banks of the Tigris River in southeastern Turkey, is believed to be one of the world's oldest continuously inhabited settlements." Yet it co…
In today's Wall Street Journal I review a Baltimore revival of David Auburn's Proof. Here's an excerpt. *Â Â *Â Â * David Auburn is having an excellent year. His new stage adaptation…
Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, Jeni LeGon, and Fats Waller perform "I'm Livin' in a Great Big Way," by Dorothy Fields and Jimmy McHugh, in Hooray for Love, directed by Walter Lang and release…
"I went inside the club, where the late afternoon crowd were enjoying themselves, if gamblers can be said to enjoy themselves. They wheedled cards or dice like sinners praying to heaven for …
Dvořák predicted that a 'great and noble school' of American classical music would arise from 'Negro melodies.' But the black musical motherlode migrated to popular genres; American c…
Fewer Americans are volunteering their time and money on a regular basis, according to the report. The national volunteer rate has not surpassed 28.8 percent since 2005, and in 2015, it dipp…
Show creators traditionally get big payouts when a really popular show gets syndicated and sold over and over again. Disney wants to pay more up front and limit the back end. Creators aren't…
There's little mystery about where people are heading, or why: They are mostly moving toward sun and some semblance of affordability. The major Texas metros"Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, and…
Enrique Mazzola, who is currently the principal guest conductor at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin and was until recently artistic and music director of the Orchestre National d'ÃŽle-de-France…
This leads us to the most critical question: if most arts leaders are white, and diversity is the business of leaders, what is required of our leaders to effect change? " ArtsHub
"Giving money to higher education amplifies a billionaire's legacy. The money greases hiring decisions and shapes curriculums, and it can ricochet across the wider culture for decades, even …
"He's just completed a residency at the Belhaven University Dance Department in Jackson, Mississippi, and teaches ballet around the state, where he resides in a small town outside Hattiesbur…
Magnus is part of a wave of smartphone apps trying to catalog the physical world as a way of providing instantaneous information about songs or clothes or plants or paintings. First came Sha…
After a week of debate in Kyoto, and pushback ahead of the International Council for Museums's annual conference in the historic Japanese city, delegates voted overwhelmingly against a co…