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...album (Mali Music) and a side project with a member of the Clash. All were slightly ridiculous (hip-hop, world music, supergroup--the hubristic rock star's triple crown) but well received, yet none can quite prepare you for Albarn's latest: Journey to the West, a "circus opera" based on a Ming-dynasty novel, with lyrics in Mandarin by Chinese actor Chen Shi-zheng. The protagonist is the wildly self-confident Monkey, who irritates his peers with his certainty that he is far more gifted than they are and deserving of immortal acclaim. He doesn...
...bode well for the regional art market: the Hong Kong auction was its first gauge after the worldwide financial crisis hit last month. "Due to uncertainty in the markets, investors are making selective choices as to where to spend their money," says Shirley Ben Bashat, director of the Opera Gallery Hong Kong...
...Still, the local art world isnt' getting too depressed - yet. Says Bashat, the director of the Opera Gallery Hong Kong, "Many buyers see art as a safer investment in the mid to long term compared to other investments in the market." Buyers may be turning away from contemporary Chinese art today, but at least they are keeping an eye on Asia...
...first woman to conduct a mainstage production with the San Francisco Opera summarized her career path on Friday with a quote from Harvard Musician in Residence Isaiah A. Jackson III ’66: “You can’t plan the important things.” Hosted by the Harvard College Women’s Center and co-sponsored by the Office for the Arts at Harvard, Sara E. Jobin ’91 spoke with a group of students over lunch as part of the Alum-inating! program, a speaker series that brings a prominent alumna...
...were recognized by standing and spinning three times. Throughout the event, attendees sent a deluge of paper airplanes from the balcony and loudly cheered each time a presenter mentioned the night’s theme: “redundancy.” The night also included a three-part opera entitled “Redundancy, Again,” as well as various “Scientific Demonstrations” and other humorous skits. Marc Abrahams, the event’s lamé donning emcee, mingled with a host of others—including Nobel Prize Winners William Lipscomb...