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☆ For the Price of a Police Helicopter, New York Could Save the Arts
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-21 | by ( Ginia Bellafante | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

The multiplier effect of culture in New York is huge both in economic and human terms. But arts funding does not consistently rise to meet it. From one vantage, the city’s cultural funding can look robust. Over the past decade, the money allocated to the Department of Cultural Affairs has increased considerably, as City Hall officials will point out. And at any rate, between 2023 and 2024, the overall budget decreased by $7 million to $241 million, as the migrant crisis required cuts across municipal divisions.

Persons: Mark Morris’s, Burt Bacharach, Shakespeare, Kathleen Chalfant Organizations: Broadway, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Department of Cultural Affairs, City Locations: New York, America, Forest Hills, Queens

☆ At DanceAfrica, the Enduring Power of Love
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-23 | by ( Gia Kourlas | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

“Life is love,” Davis says in a video shot at the wedding, crossing his arms across his chest before reaching them broadly to either side. “Love is all.”The wedding was a lavish occasion, but it was more than a theatrical staging of a ritual. DanceAfrica, the vibrant festival now in its 47th year, is as much about building and honoring a community as it is about showcasing artistic forms. Davis brought the couple — N’Goma, 80, is a drummer and Normadien, 71, a dancer — together by bringing them into his world. At DanceAfrica, N’Goma is a stage manager; Normadien is assistant stage manager.

Persons: Normadien, Chuck Davis, —, ” Davis, ”, Davis Organizations: Brooklyn Academy of Music Locations: United States, DanceAfrica

☆ Meet the 12 first-round picks of the WNBA draft
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-16 | by ( Mykenna Maniece | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

The WNBA draft was held on Monday, April 15, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York. The Indiana Fever selected Caitlin Clark first overall. AdvertisementThe WNBA reported that the 2023 season was "its most-watched regular season in 21 years," with combined viewership across networks "up 21 percent over the 2022 regular season." With big names like Angel Reese and Caitlin Clark joining the league, there's no telling what new heights it'll reach this season. AdvertisementGet to know all 12 talented women from the first round of the draft as they prepare to continue changing the world of women's basketball, one block, three-pointer, and rebound at a time.

Persons: Caitlin Clark, —, Clark, Jeff Pagliocca, Angel Reese Organizations: Brooklyn Academy of Music, Indiana Fever, Service, NCAA, ESPN, Sky Locations: New York

☆ ‘Bark of Millions’ Review: Children of the Revolution
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-07 | by ( Laura Collins-Hughes | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Somewhere close to the four-hour mark in “Bark of Millions,” the polychromatic cavalcade of splendor that is Taylor Mac and Matt Ray’s new rock opera, I finally realized why the woman in front of me had been reading on her phone throughout the performance. The words on her phone were excerpts from the show’s lyrics, a free digital version of the printed fan deck on sale at concessions. More than 50 songs in, she was grasping at that text in an attempt to follow along. Because the great frustration of “Bark of Millions,” which continues through Saturday at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Harvey Theater, is that there are far too many songs in which the music drowns out the lyrics, making the meaning a bafflement. If “Bark of Millions” were aiming to succeed on aural gorgeousness and visual spectacle alone, there would be no cause to quibble.

Persons: Taylor Mac, Matt Ray’s, Brendan Aanes, Mac Organizations: Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Locations: Versailles, Vegas

WASHINGTON (AP) — The newest group of Kennedy Center honorees, including comedian Billy Crystal and actor Queen Latifah, are being feted Sunday night at a star-studded event commemorating their lifetime achievement in arts and entertainment. Opera singer Renée Fleming, music star Barry Gibb and prolific hitmaker Dionne Warwick also are being honored at the black-tie gala. Bill Cosby received both honors, but they were rescinded in 2018 following his sexual assault conviction, which later was overturned. Along with his late brothers Robin and Maurice, the trio launched a nearly unmatched string of hits that defined a generation of music. Fleming sang the national anthem while Latifah performed “America the Beautiful.”

Persons: Billy Crystal, Queen Latifah, Renée Fleming, Barry Gibb, Dionne Warwick, Kennedy, Deborah F, Rutter, “, Jodie Dallas, ”, Harry Met Sally, Bride ”, Crystal, Mark Twain, David Letterman, Steve Martin, Lorne Michaels, Lily Tomlin, Carol Burnett, Neil Simon, Bill Cosby, Burt Bacharach, Hal David, Bacharach, ” Fleming, Barack Obama, England’s Royal Academy of Music . Gibb, Robin, Maurice, Latifah, Dana Owens, Fleming Organizations: WASHINGTON, Kennedy Center, of, England’s Royal Academy of Music, Bee Locations: “, Warwick, Chicago, America

NEW YORK (AP) — To appeal to a new generation of philanthropists, the Brooklyn Community Foundation is ditching the word “foundation” and establishing itself with a new name: Brooklyn Org. “The point isn’t lost on Rainey, who says that no matter what people call it, Brooklyn Org is still a foundation. But she said the new name reflects different practices the foundation has put in place that let residents steer the course of the institution. All of the foundation’s discretionary grantmaking, Rainey says, uses a participatory approach, where residents research and pick nonprofits to receive grants. The AP and the Chronicle receive support from the Lilly Endowment for coverage of philanthropy and nonprofits and are solely responsible for this content.

Persons: Jocelynne Rainey, grantmakers, ’ ”, ”, Edelman, Sruthi Sadhujan, Sadhujan, ” Sadhujan, isn’t, Rainey, Alex Daniels Organizations: Brooklyn Community Foundation, Brooklyn Org, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Independent Sector, Edelman Data, Intelligence, Ford Foundation, Associated Press, The, AP Locations: Brooklyn

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Actor David McCallum, who became a teen heartthrob in the hit series "The Man From U.N.C.L.E." McCallum died Monday of natural causes surrounded by family at New York Presbyterian Hospital, CBS said in a statement. His parents were musicians; his father, also named David, played violin, his mother played cello. When David was 3, the family moved to London, where David Sr. played with the London Philharmonic and Royal Philharmonic. In 2007, when he was working on “NCIS,” McCallum told a reporter: “I’ve always felt the harder I work, the luckier I get.

Persons: David McCallum, McCallum, “ David, ”, James Bond, Ian Fleming, Jon Heitland's “, Robert Vaughn, Napoleon Solo, Illya, “ I’d, ’, Vaughn, Donald “ Ducky, Mark Harmon, Ducky, “, Lauren Holly, Steven D, Binder, David North, Sapphire, “ Amadeus ”, Michael Sheen, David Suchet, ” David Keith McCallum, David, David Sr, Young David, Jill Ireland, Charles Bronson, Bronson, ” McCallum, Katherine, Carpenter, we’ve, Paul, Jason, Valentine, Peter, Sophie, ” Peter McCallum, “ I’ve, ” ___ Bob Thomas Organizations: ANGELES, New York Presbyterian Hospital, CBS, Scottish, United Network Command, Law, Naval Criminal Investigation Service, Navy, Hallmark, of Fame, City, Associated Press, London Philharmonic, Royal Philharmonic, Royal Academy of Music, Royal Academy of Dramatic, Los Angeles Times Locations: New, Russian, Los Angeles, New York, Santa Monica, U.S, American, Glasgow, London, Australia, Ireland, “

☆ Opera Philadelphia Cuts Its Budget, but Not Its Ambition
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-25 | by ( Joshua Barone | More About Joshua Barone | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

And opera needs works like “10 Days,” which treats the medium with affection and respect while also chafing at its tropes throughout history. For this is an opera that jerks between beauty and terror — seamlessly under the baton of Daniela Candillari, leading an ensemble of about a dozen instrumentalists. The patients (members of Opera Philadelphia Chorus, led by Elizabeth Braden) can sing the same hymn with serenity in one scene and chaotic dissonance in the next, with few indications of which is the truer rendition. The most tragic of the patients is Lizzie (the mezzo-soprano Raehann Bryce-Davis, who sings with a lush and moving elegance that would make her ideal for mid-20th century American opera). Her repetitive ramblings come into logical focus with a long, crushing aria about the death of her daughter.

Persons: Nellie Bly’s, —, Bly, Daniela Candillari, Elizabeth Braden, Josiah Blackwell, Will Liverman, Joanna Settle’s, Andrew Lieberman, Kiera Duffy, Lauren Pearl, Raehann Bryce, Davis, Lizzie doesn’t, She’s Organizations: Opera Philadelphia, Academy of Music Locations: Roosevelt

☆ Opinion | American Theater Is Collapsing. The Federal Government Must Save It.
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-19 | by ( Isaac Butler | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

The American theater is on the verge of collapse. The Humana Festival of New American Plays, a vital launching pad for such great playwrights as Lynn Nottage and Will Eno over the past four decades, was canceled this year. This season the Williamstown Theater Festival, one of our most important summer festivals, will consist of only one fully produced work, alongside an anemic offering of staged readings. The Lookingglass, a major anchor of Chicago’s theater scene, is halting production for the year. Nonprofit theaters are where many recent hits — including “A Strange Loop” and “Hamilton,” both of which won Pulitzer Prizes — started out.

Persons: Lynn Nottage, Will Eno, Edward Albee, August Wilson, Tony Kushner, Annie Baker, Simon, Garfunkel’s, “, “ Hamilton, ”, — Organizations: Public, New, Williamstown Theater, Oregon Shakespeare, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Nonprofit Locations: Oregon, New York

☆ Maggie Siff and Erica Schmidt on a Williams Play ‘Shot Through With Desire’
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-12 | by ( Sarah Bahr | More About Sarah Bahr | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

She felt the theme would resonate in 2020, when the play was originally set to be staged before the pandemic forced a postponement — even more so now, amid a wave of anti-immigrant sentiment nationwide. “That’s possibly why it hasn’t been so successful in the past,” Schmidt, 48, said at a rehearsal on a sweltering Wednesday last month at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Why did you want to do this play? ERICA SCHMIDT The play is shot through with desire; this need to really live life and to cling to what matters to you with both your hands until your fingers break, as Carol [an eccentric aristocrat character] says. It felt like an undeniable piece of work that one would need to throw oneself into.

Persons: Schmidt, ”, “, ” Schmidt, Williams, Schmidt —, —, ERICA SCHMIDT, Carol, Thornton Wilder, MAGGIE SIFF Organizations: Brooklyn Academy of Music Locations: London, United States, “ Our

☆ Why Buy Anything You Could Borrow (Especially If You’re Renting)?
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-30 | by ( Julie Lasky | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Brooke Renteria moved to a studio in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, from California two years ago. The unit of less than 400 square feet in Caesura, an apartment building cater-corner from the Brooklyn Academy of Music, came with a Murphy bed, a built-in table/desk and a 49-inch smart TV. Ms. Renteria, who is 24 and works in tech, also had access to the building’s Common Goods room, a basement closet stocked with household items that residents could check out for free. Among the dozens of objects: a sewing machine, a Ninja professional blender and a white porcelain dinner service for 12. When the 12-story building with 123 units opened in 2018, its 34 furnished micro studios started at $2,588 a month for 314 square feet.

Persons: Brooke Renteria, unpack, Murphy, Renteria, “ Organizations: Brooklyn Academy of Music Locations: Fort Greene , Brooklyn, California, Caesura, Caesura’s

☆ Surprises, snubs and a watershed moment that wasn’t.
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-02 | by ( Scott Heller | Alexis Soloski | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Not everyone can wake up to good news on Tony nominations morning. Then again, with a panel of voters often un-wowed by celebrity, the roster typically turns up left-field choices and anoints young talent. But the Tony committee gave the show’s team something to laugh about, lavishing six nominations, including two for Cooper himself: best play and best featured actor in a play. Cooper, who portrayed a saucy airline hostess named Peaches, gave it his all, onstage and off: When the show’s sudden closing was first announced, he took to Instagram to rally audiences. Yet Tony voters passed on nominating Oscar Isaac and Rachel Brosnahan for their sexy, impassioned portrayals of a fraying couple in 1960s Greenwich Village.

☆ Les Arts Florissants Returns to New York, Endangered
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-27 | by ( Zachary Woolfe | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The pair of concerts that William Christie and his ensemble, Les Arts Florissants, offered at Carnegie Hall this week made me a little sad. What depressed me was the question of whether there’s a future in New York for this pathbreaking early-music group, founded in France four decades ago by Christie, an American. Its longtime bases when on tour in the city, Lincoln Center and the Brooklyn Academy of Music, have jolted away from the kind of music programming that was until recently a core part of their identities — and the kind that Les Arts Florissants embodies. Sure, Christie and Les Arts Florissants don’t do contemporary pieces. Their repertoire, with its founding specialty in the French Baroque of Lully, Rameau and Charpentier, doesn’t check fashionable boxes of diversity, equity and inclusion.

☆ Zadie Smith Never Meant to Write a Play
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-25 | by ( Emily Bobrow | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

Zadie Smith did not intend to write a play. Brent won, and Ms. Smith had to write something for the celebration. “I feel guilty that all of this is my fault,” Ms. Smith says over the phone from her hotel in Boston, just before her play’s recent run at Harvard’s American Repertory Theater. She explains that it has been both “extraordinary” and discomfiting to watch her words performed to packed houses. “I’m in awe of people who work in this form because real-time rejection is not something I’m used to.”

☆ (foto) Mândrie națională! Cei mai buni studenți originari din Moldova, care învață la universități de top din lume
▼ + stars: | 2020-12-27 | by ( Onixmedia Srl | ) diez.md time to read: +2 min

(foto) Mândrie națională! Cei mai buni studenți originari din Moldova, care învață la universități de top din lumeCei mai bravi studenți originari din Moldova, care își fac studiile peste hotarele țării, au fost premiați în cadrul celei de-a VIII-a ediții a Galei Studenților, care s-a desfășurat astăzi, 27 decembrie 2020 în format online. Vezi mai jos cine sunt câștigătorii premiilor din acest an. Categoria „Repatriot”: Mihai Iațco, Olga Bodrug, Radu Artiom, Alexandrina Căpățînă, Cristina Ichim, Maria Buzu. Echipa #diez le urează felicitări și mult succes tuturor laureaților!

Persons: Mihaela, Irina, Alina, Cristi Grosu, Dan Mocanu, Iulia, Elena, Daniela, Cristian, Lidia, Marius, Sergiu Garabajii, Gheorghe Dima, Damian Spinei, Ana, Ion Luca Caragiale, Tatiana Roman, Iuliana, Alina Cojocaru, Valeriu Lupan, Cătălina Druță, Filip Cojocaru, Olga, Alexandrina Căpățînă, Cristina Ichim, Maria Organizations: Studenților, Universitatea Harvard, Business, Universitatea Erasmus din, Universitatea Babeș - Bolyai, Universitatea, University College London, Royal Academy of Music, Universitatea din, Academia Națională, Muzică, Universitatea Națională de Artă Teatrală și Cinematografică, Ion Locations: Moldova, Statele Unite ale Americii, Copenhaga, Danemarca, Universitatea Erasmus din Rotterdam, Țările de Jos, România, Universitatea Cambridge, Universitatea din Copenhaga, Lidia Roman, Lille, Franța, Universität Mozarteum, Austria

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