Eye contact is important to leading orchestras, but it’s rarely taught to conductors. “It has to be organic or it doesn’t work.”
↩︎ Classical Music
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Words of praise for Queen Elizabeth II as one of our greatest performance artists. “One is a sort of sponge.”
↩︎ The Art Newspaper
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Tennis phenom Coco Gauff, 18, reaches her first Grand Slam final in Paris—”the first tournament she’s played with no homework.”
↩︎ The New York Times…
In that 1971 letter… Stegner ends: “Wonderful. I feel like a character in literary history.” He did not mean being famous, but that what he’d done would catch up to him. It’s time it did.
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George Saunders offers different ways to write a story’s ending—“ending,” in his view, meaning “stopping without sucking.”
↩︎ Story Club with George …
Kelsey Weekman: I started reading a book a day so I could be seen online as a reader. And now I can’t stop reading.
↩︎ BuzzFeed
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Your weekly soothe, accompanied by satisfying slicing noises.
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A good review of the Kronos Quartet performing an opera about M? Lai, the massacre of over 500 Vietnamese civilians.
↩︎ VAN Magazine
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I often email landlords asking them to take measurements of the apartment’s flat surfaces, which has resulted in no small number of cancellations; I imagine they think I’m going to perform home butchery or cel…
White noise podcasters are climbing the charts, earning tens of thousands of dollars a month with static.
↩︎ Bloomberg
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