Here is a list of segments in the film by conflict. And here is a cheat sheet of the foods used by segment and the countries they represent.
Thanks to ArtsJournal for posting.
Jeff Heinrich's review for the Montreal Gazette of the Maria Schneider Orchestra at the Montreal International Jazz Orchestra has touched off a firestorm of protest from readers. Here is the single-paragraph review which is followed by more than 60 (at the time of this post) comments decrying Heinrich's review.
Doug Ramsey's comments on the piece on his Rifftides blog, which is my original source for this post, can be found here.
I have not yet found an alternate review in English (if you find one, drop me a line), but promise to post one if I can find it.
The Celebrity Series presented Ms. Schneider and Orchestra, with pride, at Berklee Performance Center in November 2007.
In honor of Independence Day, at least in a big picture sort of way, composer and commentator Rob Kapilow takes on composer Aaron Copland's iconic work, Appalachian Spring.
Here is a bit of Kapilow's take:
"'Copland's Appalachian Spring has a million things in it,' Kapilow says, 'but at its heart is one chord, which is not only the essence of Appalachian Spring but in my mind Copland's entire vision of America.'"
Here is the National Public Radio landing page.
And as long as we're on the subject of national holidays, patriotism and the like, here is Kapilow's take on the greatness of the song, America the Beautiful.
Rob Kapilow will cover Mendelssohn's Octet in E-flat Major and The Music of Cole Porter during the 2009-2010 season. Appalachian Spring was presented by the Celebrity Series as the subject of a What Makes It Great? program in 2000.
It's only a 2-minute excerpt, but cellist Maya Beiser's multi-media performance, "World to Come," doesn't need much time to make an impression. You could call it a solo cello performance, because in one sense it is, but there is quite a bit more going on here visually.
Conductor Fabio Luisi, seen last in Boston this past November conducting the Dresden Staatskapelle (under the auspices of the Celebrity Series, ahem), has been chosen to be the next music director of the Zurich Opera.
I've said it before, I'll say it again:
"BU YATAK BAK YATAK."
It's one's closest friends that can say the things that truly need to be said.
Start your browsers, there is a new Tuber in town. The National Archives has joined the YouTube fray and promises to dole out weekly videos that will make us feel just a little bit less like we are wasting bandwidth: US National Archives Channel.
He isn't a luddite, but he is a realist - and a thorough one at that. When Malcolm Gladwell takes technology utopianist and author Chris Anderson gently, insistently to task, as he does in this week's New Yorker, you know who's been schooled: Read Priced to Sell.
I don't think I've ever enjoyed having my shirt stick to me quite so much ...
UPDATE: So much for the hot weather. Back to cool and rainy ...
Canadian soprano Measha Brueggergosman underwent emergency surgery on June 10 to repair a split aorta, a rare and often fatal hereditary condition:
"'I am alive, and I'm quite good, I've got to say. Thankful,' she said by telephone Wednesday. 'But [the surgeons] did saw through my sternum, so that's going to take a little bit of time.'"
Read The Globe and Mail article.
Ms. Brueggergosman made her Celebrity Series debut in November 2007.
A worker doing demolition as part of construction of the new American Wing at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, has found a letter written by a worker from 1926. Thomas F. Crowley left his typewritten letter inside of two envelopes between two sections of terra cotta wall where it stayed, undisturbed, for 83 years. Maureen Melton, historian and director of the museum’s libraries and archives has been researching Thomas Crowley and is piecing together the details of his life.
