Chicago-based chamber music ensemble eighth blackbird has earned the admiration of many a composer over the past 14 years for their electrifying performances, outreach to new audiences, and tireless championship of contemporary programming. That is, until the announcement of their new composition competition earlier this month. It seems that in order to enter the competition,Read More
Archives for February 2010
Around the horn: Johnny Weir edition
It is indeed state budget time, and AFTA’s Tim Mikulski has a helpful round-up of some of the early arts advocacy fights on the horizon for this year. So far, Rhode Island’s 58% cut is looming largest, but Louisiana is close behind as Gov. Jindal wants to halve the state’s Department of Culture, Recreation, andRead More
Flashback: Press Play!
In April 2007, my experimental rock band/electric chamber ensemble Capital M had its second (and last) annual World Premieres Extravaganza at the now-defunct Tonic on New York’s Lower East Side. We opened with a performance of composer Ian Dicke’s Press Play!, a really cool composition fusing rock, jazz, and classical idioms just about as authenticallyRead More
They like me, they really like me!
The good folks at the Technology in the Arts blog, a program of the Center for Arts Management and Technology at Carnegie Mellon University, run a podcast that includes a feature called “Cool Sites of the Episode.” Here they are talking about Createquity and giving a shout-out to Around the Horn (hope it’s cool ofRead More
Yosi speaks
Yosi Sergant, former NEA Communications Director, has finally broken his silence with respect to the events that led to his resignation last fall. For those of you who haven’t been following this story, the article linked above provides a good overview. Sergant was interviewed by Hillel Aron, a grad student at USC who is (self-admittedly)Read More
Around the horn: Vancouver edition
Stephen Colbert is ready for the Olympics…are YOU? Did you know the Olympics used to award medals to artists between 1912 and 1948? Germany led with 24 in all. Holy moly data gold mine ahead: PeteSearch has been writing a program to scrape the public Facebook profiles off the web and analyze their connections andRead More
New Blogs!
Another new crop for you all this weekend. 24 Usable Hours I’m so proud of my former Yale School of Management classmate Devon Smith for putting together this completely kickass arts & social media blog that you should all be reading. (Even the title is amazing!) I sometimes suspect Devon is simply adapting material she’sRead More
Arts Policy Library: The Search for Shining Eyes
In the wake of the 1990 recession, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation embarked on a historic program in an attempt to revolutionize classical music in the United States. The Magic of Music Symphony Orchestra Initiative lasted from 1994 to 2004 and aimed to transform the audience’s experience of music in the concertRead More
Around the horn: Snowpocalypse edition
Thanks to all for the gratfiying response to my news from last week. I’m looking forward to new frontiers and really proud of the community that’s started to build up around Createquity. I hope to ensure that the site remains worthy of your time and attention. ‘Tis the time of the season when states startRead More
Some food for thought
Presented without comment: Outrageous Fortune paints a none-too-bright picture of the environment for new restaurants in America. Of principal concern are the economic challenges faced by restauranteurs and the lack of opportunity for making one’s living through cooking; the gap in support for mid-career chefs; the inauthentic professional relationship between restaurant owners and their landlords;Read More