All Entries Tagged With: "The Guardian"

Thursday Links

The Canadian Opera Company has created a whole little Flash mini-site about its new General Director Alexander Neef. So far the blog is only one post old but the comments are already worth the price of admission.

Shadow culture secretary Jeremy Hunt says that the British Conservative Party is now, “the natural party for [...]

‘He Could Play A Ukelele And Make It Sound Like A Stradivarius’

It’s backwards day at The Guardian. Arts critics report on various sporting events while their counterparts head off to see the opera, symphony, a modern dance show, a pop concert and a contemporary sculpture exhibition.
Quite an interesting idea although their editor’s instructions to draw parallels is embraced with a little too much enthusiasm at [...]

Wednesday Links

A group of Austrian monks is sitting at number one on the British classical music charts. Next stop Top of the Pops?
Looking for a donkey bone rattle, a cardboard guitar or a custom made thumb piano? Trade in your plane ticket for a quick trip to Musideum, a Toronto store that offers, “rare instruments [...]

Wednesday Links

What’s the first thing you need to do when starting your own country? Create a national anthem of course. Yotam Haber has a crash course in anthem writing at the New Music Box. Here’s a hint: don’t copy Italy.
Prospect has published a list of the top 100 public intellectuals. It appears [...]

‘Bile Flows More Easily Than The Milk Of Kindness’

Molly Flatt writes about books but her questions apply to reviewers of all stripes.
…why is it so difficult to “praise interestingly”? Despite our native savagery, surely there is nothing quite so pleasing as a balanced, sensitive and generous review that manages to capture the spirit of a beloved book? Maybe the problem is that the [...]

Friday Links

One serious link today followed by three rather more fun ones. Seems like a good balance for Friday, no?

Nick Fraser, the man in charge of BBC documentaries, asks “What are the consequences of making or writing something? Does it ever make a difference in the way it was intended?”

Matthew Guerrieri has another installment [...]

Wednesday Links

Can penguins fly? You bet.

BBC1 is looking for choirs to have on its new ChoirWars program. The point is to find the Nation’s Favourite Choir presumably as voted on by viewers. There something quite lovable about this idea since it’s not a talent competition but rather one of personality. This is perhaps [...]