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Are you quite finished? New York Philharmonic conductor dramatically halts performance after cell phone interruptionHannah Roberts Daily Mail 01/11/2012 | New York City Opera Cancels Rehearsals as Steel Battles UnionsPhilip Boroff San Francisco Chronicle 01/09/2012 |
Imagine opera singers accompanied by Klezmer musicians, a rock and roll band or Yo-Yo Ma. George Steel can. The artistic director and general manager of New York City Opera told unionized singers and musicians that he wants the flexibility to present nontraditional works, giving them less work. That demand contributed to a collapse in labor talks and a lockout of artists a month before the company's first 2012 performance. | |
New York Library offers patrons e-reader serviceCharlie Osborne ZDNet 01/09/2012 | Broadway's 'Spider-Man' musical earns new recordMARK KENNEDY AP 01/03/2012 |
Look who's sporting a big smile behind his mask on Broadway — none other than the once-mocked Spider-Man. The Broadway League reported Tuesday that "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" took in a whopping $2,941,790 over nine performances last week, which is the highest single-week gross of any show in Broadway history. | |
Charles Askegard Leaves His Ballerinas At New York City BalletJocelyn Noveck The Huffington Post 10/10/2011 | Polish paintings, stolen by Nazis, repatriated in New YorkKristina Sgueglia CNN 09/22/2011 |
September 11 memorial opens to publicEd Payne CNN 09/11/2011 | Curators make hard choices at New York 9/11 museumJonathan Allen Reuters 09/06/2011 |
Eva Peron ‘kept Nazi treasure taken from Jews’Robin Yapp Telegraph 09/01/2011 | New book disputes claim Jefferson fathered children of slaveStephen Dinan The Washington Times 08/31/2011 |
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