FRIENDS OF MUSIC RECEIVES ARTS GRANT The Friends of Music announced today it has received an arts grant totaling $7,332. The funds are coming from the West Virginia Division of Culture and History and the National Endowment for the Arts, with approval from the West Virginia Commission on the Arts. The grant will be used […]
Osvaldo Golijov grew up in an Eastern European Jewish household in La Plata, Argentina. Born to a piano teacher mother and physician father, Golijov was raised surrounded by classical chamber music, Jewish liturgical and klezmer music, and the new tango of Astor Piazzolla. After studying piano at the local conservatory he moved to Jerusalem in […]
As part of a strong new effort to combat trafficking in African ivory, the Fish and Wildlife Service has issued a proposed rule for public comment. The rule would affect any musician who intends to travel internationally with musical instruments containing ivory. If all the features of the proposed rule are made final, orchestras and […]
Michael Kaiser has run the Kennedy Center, the Royal Opera House and The American Ballet Theatre. He knows arts management. His new book Curtains? The Future of the Arts in America paints a disturbing picture. Kaiser recounts the flourishing of the arts in the period between 1950 and 2000 made possible by the burst of […]
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