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☆ Can Marin Alsop Shatter Another Glass Ceiling?
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-06 | by ( Zachary Woolfe | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Marin Alsop’s conducting students were taking turns on the podium recently in a rehearsal room at Meyerhoff Symphony Hall in Baltimore. Alsop, who spent untold hours at Meyerhoff Hall during her 14 years as music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, a tenure that ended in 2021, teaches in technical, tangible details. In a measure with 11 beats, she suggested using the last as a pickup to the following bar, to give the players an extra bit of clarity. “You’re not accompanying,” she told a rising maestro who seemed to be giving an invisible musician too much leeway. “You’re in charge.”

Persons: Marin Alsop’s, Stravinsky’s, Alsop, “ You’re, ” Organizations: Meyerhoff Symphony, Meyerhoff, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Locations: Baltimore

☆ I listen to Taylor Swift while I get MRIs to screen for cancer. She helped me through my mastectomy and recovery.
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-06 | by ( Anna Sullivan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Now, I listen to Taylor Swift when I get my twice-yearly MRIs as part of my cancer screening. When I told her I was in my Taylor Swift era, she laughed and said I was going to be a big hit with the radiologist on call. MRIs are never pleasant, but they're better when Taylor Swift is playingWe were sitting in the makeshift triage area, a small room with no windows. Then, as I slid into the machine, "Blank Space (Taylor's Version)" started playing through the speakers. I could barely hear "Blank Space (Taylor's Version)" over the noise of the MRI, which sounded like a back grader getting stuck on a dirt road.

Persons: Taylor, Taylor Swift, —, I'd, I've, Swift, Max, Joe Alwyn, There's, It's Organizations: Service, SiriusXM Symphony Locations: Santa Fe , New Mexico, Australia

☆ Smell the Music: Inviting a Perfumer Into the Concert Hall
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-23 | by ( Joshua Barone | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

It was time to smell Scriabin’s “Prometheus: The Poem of Fire.”This music, from 1910, has an element of synesthesia in its score, which calls for a color organ — a keyboard instrument that projects lights of a dozen hues — along with a full orchestra, a piano soloist and a choir. But in October at Davies Symphony Hall, the home of the San Francisco Symphony, the piece was being prepared with an additional sense in mind. Onstage, the pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet practiced his solo part in “Prometheus,” which the San Francisco Symphony will perform March 1 through 3, while the conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen listened attentively to the wooden vortexes as they were being tested; the sound they made while emitting smoke, he noticed, was nearly a G.Mathilde Laurent, Cartier’s longtime perfumer, who had designed the scents, double-checked notes on her iPad. For this day’s test, without the orchestra, she wanted to be sure the diffusers were timed to match the music. So they were going to play a recording overhead.

Persons: Jean, Yves Thibaudet, Pekka Salonen, attentively, Mathilde Laurent, Cartier’s, perfumer Organizations: Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco Symphony, San Francisco

☆ At Tanglewood, the Boston Symphony Displays Its Heritage and Uncertain Future
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-15 | by ( David Allen | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

Hints of a progressive Californian spirit were soon in evidence, as composers started appearing onstage at Symphony Hall in Boston to introduce their works, and the atmosphere began to feel more engaged. But Samuel lasted a mere 18 months, stepping down in January for reasons that are still not clear. Smith, who for a long time was the adventurous Philharmonic’s programming guru, is hugely respected, and his hiring is cause for excitement, if some trepidation. In addition, Elizabeth Rowe, the principal flutist whose distinctive, ever-so-slightly melancholy tone has defined the sound of the modern Boston Symphony, has announced that she will leave her position next year. She sued the orchestra in 2018 to secure pay equal to that of the oboist who sits to her left, John Ferrillo.

Persons: Mark Volpe, Gail Samuel, Samuel, Chad Smith, Smith, Malcolm Lowe, Lowe, Joseph Silverstein, Richard Burgin, Alexander Velinzon, Elita Kang, Tamara Smirnova, Elizabeth Rowe, John Ferrillo Organizations: Boston Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Symphony Hall Locations: Boston, Angeles, North America

☆ J.J. Watt invests in English soccer club Burnley
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-01 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/5] Feb 9, 2023; Phoenix, Arizona, US; Former football player J.J. Watt poses for a photo on the red carpet before the NFL Honors award show at Symphony Hall. Mandatory Credit: Kirby Lee-USA TODAY SportsMay 1 (Reuters) - Former NFL player J.J. Watt and his wife, former U.S. international soccer player Kealia Watt, announced on Monday that they are investing in the English soccer club Burnley FC. Watt, three-times Defensive Player of the Year in the National Football League, announced his retirement in December. Kealia Watt formerly played for the Chicago Red Stars of the National Women's Soccer League and is currently a free agent. Burnley are owned by Burnley FC Holdings Limited, with Calder Vale Holdings holding 83.97% of the company and individual shareholders holding the remaining shares.

☆ Drafting it: Sportscaster Rich Eisen on football and finances
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-26 | by ( Chris Taylor | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

[1/2] Feb 9, 2023; Phoenix, Arizona, US; Sports commentator Rich Eisen poses for a photo on the red carpet before the NFL Honors award show at Symphony Hall. “I hung up the phone and became the owner of my own business,” Eisen recalls about buying back his show from DirecTV, which was shuttering its Audience Network. This year’s edition will kick off April 27 in Kansas City, Missouri, and Eisen will be assuming hosting duties once again. But when he thinks about his financial life, Eisen does not focus much on areas like stock picking. When I first got that call, I didn’t have the first clue about how to run a business," Eisen says.

☆ John Mulaney Punctures His Persona in ‘Baby J’
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-25 | by ( Jason Zinoman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

In his new special, “Baby J,” we hear John Mulaney before we see him. It retreats to reveal Mulaney, 40, in a maroon suit, before circling to give us a picture of the commanding power of stardom. It’s a striking image setting up a series of bristling comic vignettes that dig into Mulaney’s drug addiction, intervention by friends and stint in rehab. That first shot tips us off to a theme: You can be invisible in front of a crowd. Judging by the reaction online, not to mention the texts on my phone, people had feelings about this — lots of them.

☆ Harvard psychologist to parents: Do these 7 things if you want to raise kids with flexible, resilient brains
▼ + stars: | 2020-12-08 | by ( Lisa Feldman Barrett | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

And it's up to parents to create a world — both physical and social — that is rich with wiring instructions. Based on years of research in neuroscience and psychology, here are seven parenting rules to help your kid build a brain that is flexible and therefore resilient. Likewise, parents can sculpt their child into something specific, say, a concert violinist. Research shows that, even when children are just a few months old and don’t understand the meanings of words, their brains still make use of them. When someone fails to tell the truth, don't say, "Sam is a liar," which is about the person.

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