“On the corner of 57th and 7th Avenue sits the most famous concert hall in the world. No less a figure than when Tchaikovsky led the first performances in 1891. Virtually every major artist has performed there. There is simply no place like it. The first time I stepped foot in Carnegie Hall was in 1964.” WorldFirstsArtistFeetFiguresMajorsFirst TimePerformancesCornersHallsConcertsAvenuesCarnegieCarnegie HallTchaikovsky Book:Leading Tones: Reflections on Music, Musicians, and the Music Industry Source: Leading Tones: Reflections on Music, Musicians, and the Music Industry
“No major institution in the US has so poor a record of performance over so long a period as the Federal Reserve, yet so high a public reputation.” LongPoorRecordsPeriodsMajorsPerformancesInstitutionsReputationReservesFederal Reserve Author:Milton Friedman
“As I see it, the major requirements for a strong and able rendering are an understanding of a work's structure, voicing, and trajectory; an ability to execute the details on the page from largest to smallest; technical command, and hopefully a connection with the overall expressive impulse (though the latter is not at all necessary to give a good performance).” GivingAbleStrongUnderstandingAbilityMajorsPagesConnectionsPerformancesStructureDetailsCommandHopefullyImpulseLatterSmallestRequirementsExpressiveRenderingTrajectory Author:Michael Hersch
“I think I'm comfortable making myself, or my speaker, larger than life if I can then cut myself off at the ankles. The way, in "My Major Prize," the speaker does this drippy performance of sadness and poetry for some unnamed prize committee, only he lets us know that it's all a wry game.” IfsThinkingKnowsWayDoeI CanGamesCuttingSadnessComfortableMajorsPerformancesPrizeSpeakersCommitteesAnklesLarger Than LifeWry Author:Randall Mann
“Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s.” WorldInspirationalYearsDoeHas BeensArtInfluenceFiguresPaintingBirthMajorsPerformancesTheaterDanceProfoundPopsGenreVisualsOperaDeclineSculptureMinimalismVisual ArtPop ArtMusic And Dance Author:Camille Paglia