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...puzzle, that is its point. The composer loves the way music can offer up its secrets slowly over time, performance by performance. "No one can know everything about it," she says. "That's why we play Beethoven." Come July, Lim will give up more of her secrets at a workshop for the Contemporary Music Festival in Sydney. Part of her mission will be to teach audiences how to listen. "That's one of the issues of new music," she says. "What are you listening for? It could be about the way the clarinet gives a sound to the cello...
...Nieman Foundation, a prestigious mid-career journalism fellowship program at Harvard, yesterday pulled out of its sponsorship of a controversial workshop to prepare Chinese officials for media relations at the upcoming 2008 Olympics in Beijing...
Yesterday’s press release revoked the Nieman Foundation’s sponsorship of the program, but did not definitively cancel the workshop, only saying that it “may continue under other Harvard sponsorship...
...Kumin and Sexton first met in 1957, when the two women—both of whom were housewives in the same suburb, Newton—enrolled in a poetry writing workshop at the Boston Center for Adult Education. Kumin says that she was initially “a little wary” of Sexton, who came to the workshop in high heels, with pancake makeup on her face and flowers in her hair. And according to Kumin, the wariness was mutual: “She [Sexton] said ‘Maxine Kumin was the frump of frumps...
...residency at Sydney College of the Arts in 1998, he began producing a series of porcelain busts, hand-cast and decorated in Ming and Qing Dynasty motifs. But it was an Australia Council?funded trip back to China the following year that equipped him for stardom. There, in a workshop outside Beijing, he became skilled in the 700-year-old techniques of cloisonn?, a painstaking process of copper-wire enameling which he applied to full body-casting. Human human?lotus, cloisonn? figure I, 2000-01, took out Australia's inaugural National Sculpture Prize. With a solo show at New York...