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...Zhang Jun is changing all that. The newly promoted deputy director of the Shanghai Kunqu Opera Theatre, Zhang believes the art form can be salvaged to appeal to audiences in the era of roaming broadband and speed punk. During the past two years, he and his team have compressed epic Kunqu scripts until they play about as long as the average movie, and introduced other innovations. The changes are finally starting to draw respectable audiences of curious Shanghainese. At last summer's three-week run of Palace of Eternal Youth, a Tang dynasty love tragedy, two thirds of the audience...
...groups on campus, such as for this year’s Arts First performance of Brahms ‘Requiem’ with HCS,” says Barron. “It’s a rare opportunity to have the resources and manpower to perform these large, epic pieces, and I think they add something unique to the music community on campus for both performers and audiences.”BEST DAYS AHEAD?Despite nearing the age of 80 and having conducted the HRO for more than 40 years, Yannatos continues to be a vital presence...
...about the life and work of Britney Spears other than that the girl doesn’t know when to give up. Hot on the heels of her half-assed, half-clothed Video Music Awards performance, the recently-dubbed “Unfitney” has given us an epic, four-minute display of how the pop music industry systematically ravages and eats its young. And people wonder why she’s taking parenting classes. Nothing in “Gimme More” seems either necessary or desirable. The footage looks less like a final cut than something...
...choice for Coupland, who has made it a signature of his work to poke fun at the ubiquitous brand names that have swallowed the American landscape. (It will hardly be surprising if Coupland’s next venture is a “Grapes of Wrath”-like epic in which the smartass owners of a family business come to grips with a new Wal-Mart in town.) As we learn the details of Roger’s pathetic downfall from “OK Dad” to “friendless alcoholic divorcee...
...wing of Madrid's Prado museum is humming with activity as curators prepare for its Oct. 31 opening. Above ground, in galleries built around architect Rafael Moneo's translucent, lantern-shaped patio, epic-sized historical paintings from the museum's rarely displayed 19th century collection rest against the walls, waiting to be fitted into their frames. Below ground, white-gloved workers are laboriously transferring the 3,000 works currently in storage to a new, climate-controlled archive system. And in the Room of Muses, a lone conservator painstakingly cleans a sculpture of Erato, the Greek muse of lyric poetry...